PARTIE 1 · LEÇON 4 SUR 30 · 31 MINUTES

His Own Rod

Sunday the eighth of October, twenty twenty-eight, five in the morning. Yui's father knocks at a quarter to five, Ben comes down with the rod from his birthday, his own at last, and the car takes them twenty minutes into the hills north of Kyoto. An hour of silence, then the first fish of Ben's life on his own rod, small, and the turn Yui's father promised in May, paid. Over the tea, the job, carefully, and Osaka people. At nine, the Yamamotos' kitchen, a fish with salt, all of it for Ben, and Sota on the phone from the Hanaya. Learn to say you finally did it (yatto tsureta; chiisai na. demo, ippiki wa ippiki da), that it was someone's turn (kyou wa, Ben-kun no ban datta na), that you were put to bed and made to carry things (kuji ni nekasareta; kuuraa bokkusu o motasareta), that Osaka people talk loud (Oosaka no hito wa, koe ga ookii), and to listen to what the nurse says (kangoshi no iu koto o, kiite). The fourth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Langue des explications audio : anglais