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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 28 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

White Day, and the dishes

It is White Day, the day men give something back. Ben hands round macarons at the office, humbly, with a small token. Kenta phones to say the Hanaya sent some to Natsuki, from the inn as her employer. At home Ben gives Yui a box, and says he will wash every dish tonight, and Yui says she was made to wait a year for it, and that she is tired because of the night shifts. The next morning Sota says Mio told him she would consider it, and Ben tells him what that means. Say it is just a small token, I will wash everything, I was made to wait a year, it is the night shifts, and she said she would consider it.

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THE STORY

The department's office, a phone call from the Hanaya, the kitchen in Kyoto and a phone call to Sota. Ben is humble with his colleagues, and Ben, Yui, Kenta and Sota are plain with each other.

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はなや から、 やとう がわ と して。hanaya kara, yatō-gawa to shiteFrom the Hanaya, as her employer.
これ、 さんばいがえし の はこ だ よ。kore, sanbai-gaeshi no hako da yoThis is the box of three times back.
こんや は、 ぜんぶ、 ぼく が あらう。konya wa, zenbu, boku ga arauTonight I'll wash all of it.
いちねん、 またされた。ichinen, matasaretaI was made to wait a year.
やきん の せい。yakin no seiIt's the night shifts.
けんとう します って、 いわれた。kentō shimasu tte, iwaretaShe told me she'd consider it.
それ は、 ことわる とき の ことば だ よ。sore wa, kotowaru toki no kotoba da yoThat's what you say when you turn someone down.