PARTIE 2 · LEÇON 12 SUR 30 · 32 MINUTES

The New Card

Thursday the seventh of December, twenty twenty-eight, a year to the day since a Tokyo ward office made Ben and Yui husband and wife, and the postcard from immigration came yesterday. Half past nine, window three at the Osaka immigration office again, twenty minutes instead of two hours, and a new residence card with a new word on it, spouse of a Japanese national, valid one year, with a renewal to come. Noon, Ben's desk and the phone to the Tsukiya, with the first it has been arranged of his life. Eight o'clock, a small cake with one candle, and a question Ben can now answer. Learn the words of the card that lets you stay (nihonjin no haiguusha; yuukou kikan wa, ichinen desu; tsugi wa, koushin desu; kigen no nikagetsu mae ni, shinsei shite kudasai), how a company says that something is settled (okyakusama wa, sanji ni touchaku suru koto ni natte orimasu), and how to count an anniversary (kyou de, ichinen). The twelfth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Langue des explications audio : anglais