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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Research

Kenta and Natsuki come up from Tokyo to see the small inns of Kyoto for themselves, and Ben meets them at Osaka station. Natsuki says they have come for research and have booked two rooms, and Kenta greets Ben in keigo so correct that it startles him. Mr. Okada joins them and asks his famous question in Osaka speech, and Ben has to translate. The next morning, at the inn by the river, the two innkeepers compare their breakfasts and their baths. Say we came for research, I booked two rooms, I was trained by Natsuki, our breakfast is better, and your bath is better.

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THE STORY

Osaka station at eleven, and the breakfast room of a small inn in Kyoto the next morning. Natsuki is polite, Kenta is plain with Ben and polite with the hostess, Ben is plain with Kenta, and Mr. Okada speaks Osaka speech.

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けんきゅう の ため に、 きました。kenkyū no tame ni, kimashitaWe've come for research.
ふたへや、 おねがい して あります。futaheya, onegai shite arimasuI've booked two rooms.
なつき さん に、 きたえられた。natsuki-san ni, kitaeraretaI was trained by Natsuki.
なつき さん、 かのじょ ちゃう？natsuki-san, kanojo chauNatsuki, isn't she your girlfriend?
とうきょう の ことば で いう と……tōkyō no kotoba de iu toIn Tokyo speech, that means...
うち の あさごはん の ほう が、 おいしい。uchi no asagohan no hō ga, oishiiOur breakfast is better.
おふろ は、 そちら の ほう が いい です ね。ofuro wa, sochira no hō ga ii desu neYour bath is better, I must say.