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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

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Ben comes home from the river with no fish, and Yui, who has carried a small photograph for two days, asks him to sit at the kitchen table. She has something to tell him, she is pregnant, and the baby is due at the end of October. Ben asks all his questions at once, and they say what has changed, from two people to three. Yui says who to tell, her mother first, tomorrow, and nobody else yet. Say I have something to tell you, I'm pregnant, it's due at the end of October, are you all right, and tomorrow, Mum first.

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THE STORY

The kitchen table in Kyoto, on a Saturday morning, with Maple on the chair nobody uses. Ben and Yui are plain with each other.

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はなし が ある の。hanashi ga aru noI have something to tell you.
にんしん した の。ninshin shita noI'm pregnant.
よてい び は、 じゅうがつ の おわり。yotei-bi wa, jūgatsu no owariThe due date is the end of October.
だいじょうぶ？ あかちゃん は？ いつ わかった の？daijōbu? akachan wa? itsu wakatta noAre you all right? And the baby? When did you find out?
ふたり から、 さんにん に。futari kara, sannin niFrom two people to three.
あした、 まず、 おかあさん に。ashita, mazu, okāsan niTomorrow, my mother first.
ほか の ひと に は、 まだ。hoka no hito ni wa, madaNot the others yet.