PARTIE 1 · LEÇON 8 SUR 30 · 33 MINUTES

Aunt Fumiko at the Office

Friday the twenty-seventh of October, twenty twenty-eight, three in the afternoon, the seventh floor. A voice in the corridor before the lift doors open, Aunt Fumiko, who has waited a whole month so as not to disturb him, with a box of Osaka cheesecake for the department. She finds Mister Okada, two loud Osaka people who have waited all their lives to meet, tells Miss Nishimura about the natto, asks when the baby is coming, and invites Ben for tonight. Ben tries the office's way of saying no, and his boss laughs out loud. Six o'clock, a standing bar under the railway, and the invitation of January paid, with the wrong companion. Eleven, home, and Yui's verdict. Learn to speak of your own family humbly at work (oba ga kite orimasu; sumimasen, koe ga ookikute), to bring sweets to an office (Oosaka no chiizukeeki desu. minasan de, douzo), the first hedge and what it really means (kentou itashimasu; sore wa, kotowaru toki no kotoba desu), then it's decided (ja, kimari), a whole month of holding back (ikkagetsu, gaman shita) and the worst combination (saiaku no kumiawase). The eighth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Langue des explications audio : anglais