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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

One Year

Thursday the twenty-third of November, twenty twenty-eight, a national holiday Ben didn't know he had, and the first anniversary of the shrine. Yui is off between two night shifts, three weeks into her job at the Kyoto hospital. Ten o'clock, the gate where Daichi cried, in the coats from Toronto; half past twelve, the Yamamotos' table, where Yui's father counts the year in fish; four o'clock, a video call to the Hanaya, with Kenta not sleeping, Natsuki telling on him, and Missus Sato's come back any time said to a screen. Learn to say tomorrow is your wedding anniversary (jitsu wa, ashita wa, kekkon kinenbi na n desu), that a year went by in a flash (ichinen, atto iu ma datta) and that you've got used to Kyoto (Kyouto ni, narete kita), the keigo of a hospital ward (goshujin wa, ima, yasunde irasshaimasu), and how to ask a friend whether he's sleeping (nemurete ru?). Then look back on Part 1. The tenth lesson of Advanced Level 1, the last of Part 1.

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THE STORY

Thursday, the twenty-third of November, twenty twenty-eight, a national holiday. Ten o'clock, the gate of the shrine in Kyoto where Ben and Yui married a year ago today, in the coats from Toronto. Half past twelve, the Yamamotos' table, because Yui's mother knew the date before they did. Four o'clock, the kitchen table in the flat, a phone propped against the teapot, and the Hanaya's front desk on the screen. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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しゅくじつshukujitsua national holiday
しゅくじつ、 しらんかった ん か！ なんで や ねん！shukujitsu, shirankatta n ka! nande ya nenYou didn't know it was a holiday? What are you on about!
じつ は、 あした は、 けっこん きねんび な ん です。jitsu wa, ashita wa, kekkon kinenbi na n desuActually, tomorrow's our wedding anniversary, you see.
ごしゅじん は、 いま、 やすんで いらっしゃいます。goshujin wa, ima, yasunde irasshaimasuYour husband is resting now.
いちねん、 あっと いう ま だった。ichinen, atto iu ma dattaA year went by in a flash.
なれて きたnarete kitagot used to, and it came about
きょうと に、 なれて きた。Kyōto ni, narete kitaI've got used to Kyoto.
いちねん、 あっと いう ま だった な。 で、 さかな は、 いっぴき か。ichinen, atto iu ma datta na. de, sakana wa, ippiki kaA year went by in a flash. And one fish.
ねむれてnemureteable to sleep, in the linking form
ねむれて る？nemurete ruAre you sleeping?

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