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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 31 MINUTES

His Own Rod

Sunday the eighth of October, twenty twenty-eight, five in the morning. Yui's father knocks at a quarter to five, Ben comes down with the rod from his birthday, his own at last, and the car takes them twenty minutes into the hills north of Kyoto. An hour of silence, then the first fish of Ben's life on his own rod, small, and the turn Yui's father promised in May, paid. Over the tea, the job, carefully, and Osaka people. At nine, the Yamamotos' kitchen, a fish with salt, all of it for Ben, and Sota on the phone from the Hanaya. Learn to say you finally did it (yatto tsureta; chiisai na. demo, ippiki wa ippiki da), that it was someone's turn (kyou wa, Ben-kun no ban datta na), that you were put to bed and made to carry things (kuji ni nekasareta; kuuraa bokkusu o motasareta), that Osaka people talk loud (Oosaka no hito wa, koe ga ookii), and to listen to what the nurse says (kangoshi no iu koto o, kiite). The fourth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

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THE STORY

Saturday, the seventh of October, twenty twenty-eight, half past eight in the evening, the flat in the north of Kyoto. Yui's father phones, five o'clock and don't oversleep, and a nurse puts Ben to bed at nine. Sunday, a quarter to five, the knock. Five o'clock, the car, and twenty minutes to the river in the hills north of Kyoto, with Ben's own rod and a cooler box. An hour of silence, then a bite. At nine, the Yamamotos' kitchen, and a fish with salt. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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ごじ だ。 ねぼう するな よ。goji da. nebō suru na yoFive o'clock. Don't oversleep.
きょう は、 くじ に ねて。 あした、 よじ はん だ よ。kyō wa, kuji ni nete. ashita, yoji han da yoTonight, bed at nine. Tomorrow's half past four.
かんごし の いう こと を、 きいて。kangoshi no iu koto o, kiiteListen to what the nurse says.
ねかされたnekasaretawas put to bed, the made-to form
くじ に ねかされた。kuji ni nekasaretaI was put to bed at nine.
クーラー ボックスkūrā bokkusuthe cooler box
まいしゅう、 つり だ な。maishū, tsuri da naEvery week, fishing.
もたされたmotasaretawas made to carry
クーラー ボックス を もたされた。kūrā bokkusu o motasaretaI was made to carry the cooler box.
ベン くん、 クーラー ボックス、 もって。Ben-kun, kūrā bokkusu, motteBen, carry the cooler box.

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