"タクシーをよんでください。"

Translation: Please call a taxi.

[YeiTen10010]

That's a strange nickname

[kbreddit]

I want in on the joke! Could you explain it please?

[kbreddit]

facepalms nevermind, i get it now!

[AnnikaHansen79]

Hi Taxi, I'm Dad.

[AdamScott794079]

Beat me to it

[Untitled_Name]

こんにちはタクシーさん。私は父です。

[Rick728526]

それは痛いです。

[ahANpg]

Both are よんで

呼んで to call out to someone or to hail [a taxi, a bus]

読んで to read

[DavidKames]

japanese is better off being called homophonese

[satwita]

Due to the limited number of sounds, the good thing is that Japanese is fairly easy to pronounce. The bad thing (as compared with English) is that they would either have to create extremely long words, or have way too many homophones. We see the result of the second way (also why so many Japanese defend using kanji). Seems like whenever there is something about a foreign language that makes it easier to learn, it comes tied with a corresponding thing that makes it harder.

[GeraldMath4]

呼んで and 読んで aren't quite homophonous in Standard Japanese. The former is pronounced with a rise in pitch, sort of like "do re" and the latter with a drop in pitch, like "mi do."

[FrederickEason]

However, the roots of the two words differ.

呼ぶ - to call

読む - to read

[William884020]

Thanks! This was confusing me.

[MarkErdman]

Hajimemashite, Takushii-san!

[Spencer595917]

Ah, you beat me to it.

[philallthethings]

Just change the を to と and you can say "Please, call me Taxi" lol

[Boringjorn]

「タクシーさん」と「たくさん」とたくさん呼んでください。

[kristenc7]

In another part of this lesson, "call" was expressed as よび. How do we know whether to use よび or よんで?

[sotnosen93]

According to Jisho よび on its own is a noun.

https://jisho.org/search/%E3%82%88%E3%81%B3

[CamR4]

If you insist, you cab.

[ChrisBanci]

isnt yonde to read?

[noviaprims]

I think it's from yobu = call
not from yomu = read

[MotYLi2]

Mmh... So what would the "te" form of yomu be then?

[noviaprims]

yonde, same reading but difference kanji

[V2Blast]

The kanji for each:

呼ぶ（よぶ）: to call

読む（よむ）: to read

[arcferrari248]

（笑）
MR. TAXI BY 少女時代　(GIRLS' GENERATION/SNSD)

[karsivallinen]

"Could you call a taxi?" was not accepted. I reported it.

[satwita]

Why? There is a different way in Japanese to express that sentence.

[25rock]

please call the taxi

[faurelg]

"Please call the taxi" is not accepted... Wtf

[NiyamBhushan]

Please call for a taxi. Is also correct! Grrrr

[HoratioPNelson]

Somewhere, a dad involuntarily says, "okay, you're a taxi."

[Limeila]

I wanted to comment "Hi a taxi, I'm dad" ahah

[Lloyd76445]

Hey taxi! How ya doin?

[AaronTank]

Because I'm too sad to drive after all these deaths!

[Spencer595917]

Hajimemashite Takushi-san.

[hespith]

At this point I'm relieved every time I get a question that isn't to do with death

[mizinha_joy]

ウバーをよんでください。Because we have an app for that.

[yvind182464]

So, I am having some trouble seeing/finding the difference between 呼びます and 掛けます in the context of calling someone. Would you also use 呼びます when calling someone on the phone? I would really appreciate it if someone would care to enlighten me

[GeraldMath4]

掛けます doesn't mean "call(s)." It's more like "hang(s)," especially things like wires and bridges. You can also "hang" a 電話, but that word must be present or strongly implied. 呼びます is remarkably like English "call(s)." You can certainly do it with a phone.