need to write a note, help please
 

Hi there,

I'm a japanese student at a school in Omiya living in Kawagoe with a friend, but I have just rented a new appartment, I plan to start sleeping in it from next monday.

However last evening I went to drop some stuff there and heard some music from the neighboor, so I want to leave a note on his door today asking him to keep it low at night starting on monday because I'll be living there.

But, I'm not very jozu yet with the japanese language, so I need some help writing the note. And I cant ask the friend I'm living with because he's on a trip right now.

Here's the message, if you could correct the japanese and turn the parts in () into Japanese (in romaji please)that would be very helpful.
Thanks



"Kino, apaato he kimashita (to leave some things there, and heard some music through the wall).
Getsu yobi kara, watashi wa (almost) mainichi koko de nemasu.
Dakara, onegai shimasu, 11 ji kara ongaku o chiisaku shite kudaisaimasu ka.

Arigatou gozaimasu

Nicolas (the new neighboor from room 12)"

I think you are gunna have an enemy really quick if you do what you say. lol

Why not jsut walk over there knock on the door and then when he answers just go RAH RAHRAH RAWWWRRRR!! as loud as you can.. then say how do you like it" (in japanese of course) then politely walk away with him stunned and confused.. he will figure it out and will probably be so scared of you he will do wahtever you ask in the future.

Pandayanyan is right. No need to make enemies on day one.

Japanese is about SUBTLETY. It's very common for neighbors to introduce themselves when they move in. That alone should be a pretty good hint (surely they knew the aparment was empty until now.... Japanese people JUST KNOW).

Saying you are a student and get up early or something along those lines will be MORE than enough to tell them.

If that doesn't work, and it continues, next time you see them say something like "I had a friend over the other night, I hope we weren't too loud." When they say "No, we didn't hear you" they might also ask if you can hear them. "Tama ni hayaku neru toki mo aru kara..." (Sometimes I need to go to bed early, so...) will be MORE than enough to get the message across (assuming they are reasonable people). What ever you do, talk to THEM before you start calling the landlord. In Japan, conflict resolution is done VERY SUBTLEY so no one loses face.

Oh really...

I was thinking that it would be the way that would bother him the least, since he wouldn't have to try and figure out what I want (because my japanese is so bad). Also because I dont know when he comes home or if he's there every day..
well I guess I'll just go try and say hello instead then..

I know the neighboor is an old man btw, the landlord told me I was the only young guy living there (I'm 21) everyone else is over 50.. the landlord himself is 93 years old amazingly :)

I think a note might be a little embarrassing. If it really is an older guy, he might not hear so good... and then you might be in a bit of a hard spot. The landlord telling you "you are the only young guy living here" might be a subtle hint to "you might need to deal with some oldster stuff".

I would recommend a present an older man might like (maybe a bottle of sake) and laying down the hint that you go to bed at XX hour.

Maybe I am totally off, but this is the safest route to go. Certainly some Japanese would appreciate the direct information, but without knowing for sure...

here you go but yeah the others are right...

きのう、アパートへ来ました
月曜日から、わたしわ毎日ここでねます。
だから、お願いします、１１時から音楽を小さくしてく ださいますか？
ありがとうございます。
ニコラスより
（１２ばんの部屋にすんでいます。）

Your translation is perfect, but I wouldn't deliver this note.

だから、お願いします、１１時から音楽を小さくしてく ださいますか？

If you really want to deliver this note, and keep the peace take out the above sentence (as nice as it is... but way too direct, especially from young gaijin to an older man)

I would replace it with this:

何も分かりませんので、いかんな事すれば、ぜひ教えて ください。

(Bacically, I am new here and don't know anything, so please tell me if I do something wrong.)

Telling your neighbors, who have been there for who knows how long, how to live thier lives is probably not the best introduction. Welcome to being a minority in Japan. If this is the only thing you have to put up with, then you are one of the lucky ones.

In japan, it is actually the new person who would go to the neighbors announcing that they are staying there.. instead of leaving a note and complaining on the first day.. knock and say hello first..

getsuyoubi kara tonari no heya ni sumo node,
migi hidari takusan wakaranai kedo, mata meiwaku ni nattara
oshiete kudasai.. kore kara yoroshiku onegai shimasu...