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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

Eight Guests from Toronto

Monday the eleventh of December, twenty twenty-eight, three in the afternoon, the arrivals hall at Kansai airport, and Ben's first tour begins. Eight tired Canadians, Missus Campbell with her list, Mister Doyle, seventy-four, photographing the vending machines; a coach driver from Osaka who answers everything with leave it to me; the hotel by Osaka station at about five; okonomiyaki in Dotonbori at seven, where Ben teaches eight Canadians Mister Fujita's rule in English and the cook laughs; and at half past nine, the Tsukiya on the phone and three lines of keigo to the boss, answered with one word. Learn the Japanese side of a tour (zen'in, soroimashita; goji goro, hoteru ni touchaku itashimasu; onimotsu wa, kochira de oazukari itashimasu; hachimei sama, sanji touchaku de gozaimasu), the Osaka rule in Ben's own mouth (oosaka de wa, jibun de yakimasu. osaemasen), and how a driver from Osaka says leave it to me. The thirteenth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Monday, the eleventh of December, twenty twenty-eight. Three in the afternoon, the arrivals hall at Kansai airport, an island in the bay an hour south of Osaka. Ben in his suit and Miss Nishimura with a sign wait for eight travellers from Toronto, fourteen hours in the air, and a coach from the bus company waits outside with a driver from Osaka. Twenty to four, the coach on the bridge, and the phone to the hotel by Osaka station. Five o'clock, the hotel's front desk. Seven, an okonomiyaki table in Dotonbori. Half past eight, a taxi. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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ぜんいん、 そろいました。zen'in, soroimashitaEveryone's here.
はい、 まかしといて！hai, makashitoiteRight, leave it to me!
ごじ まで に は、 つく で。 まかしといて！goji made ni wa, tsuku de. makashitoiteWe'll be there by five. Leave it to me!
とうちゃく いたしますtōchaku itashimasuwe arrive, humbly
ごじ ごろ、 ホテル に とうちゃく いたします。goji goro, hoteru ni tōchaku itashimasuWe'll arrive at the hotel at about five.
おあずかり いたしますoazukari itashimasuwe take into our keeping, humbly
おにもつ は、 こちら で おあずかり いたします。onimotsu wa, kochira de oazukari itashimasuWe'll take your luggage from here.
おさえませんosaemasenyou don't press it down
おおさか で は、 じぶん で やきます。 おさえません。ōsaka de wa, jibun de yakimasu. osaemasenIn Osaka, you cook it yourself. You don't press it down.
ベン さん、 せんせい でした ね。 やっぱり、 せんせい です。 ……いい です ね。Ben-san, sensei deshita ne. yappari, sensei desu. ... ii desu neBen, you were a teacher. You still are, it shows. ... Good.

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