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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

The First Email

Tuesday the seventeenth of October, twenty twenty-eight, ten in the morning, Ben's desk on the seventh floor. His first job as a leader, eight travellers from Canada for two nights in December, a small inn by the Kamo river in Kyoto, and his first business email, said aloud to Miss Nishimura before he types a word. She changes three words, and OK is never OK. At two the inn phones back, because emails are cold, in Kyoto's own Japanese with its own respect ending, and says yes, if the guests are quiet. Learn the shape of a business email (juunigatsu no dantai tsuaa no ken de gozaimasu; nihaku, oheya ga aru ka, gokakunin itadakemasu deshou ka; oisogashii tokoro, osoreirimasu ga; hikitsuzuki, yoroshiku onegai itashimasu), the condition of a yes (okyakusama ga shizuka nara), a yes with conditions (jouken tsuki no, hai desu ne), and how to hear Kyoto's politeness without saying it. The sixth lesson of Advanced Level 1.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Tuesday, the seventeenth of October, twenty twenty-eight. Ten in the morning, Ben's desk on the seventh floor of Tsubame Travel's head office in Osaka. On the desk, a sheet from Mister Okada, eight travellers from Toronto for two nights in Kyoto in December, and a screen with nothing on it yet. Miss Nishimura pulls up a chair. At two the phone rings, from a small inn by the Kamo river. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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ベン くん、 さいしょ の しごと や。 カナダ から、 はちにん。 じゅうにがつ。 きょうと の ちいさい りょかん、 さがして こい。 うち で は、 はじめて や で。Ben-kun, saisho no shigoto ya. Kanada kara, hachinin. jūnigatsu. Kyōto no chiisai ryokan, sagashite koi. uchi de wa, hajimete ya deYoung Ben, your first job. Eight from Canada, in December. Find a small inn in Kyoto. A first for us.
つきやTsukiyathe Tsukiya, a family inn in Kyoto
おりますorimasuam, is, humbly
けんkenthe matter of
けん で ございますken de gozaimasuis the matter of, formally
だんたいdantaia group, of travellers
じゅうにがつ の だんたい ツアー の けん で ございます。jūnigatsu no dantai tsuā no ken de gozaimasuThis concerns the group tour in December.
ごかくにんgokakuninconfirmation, raised with the polite go
いただけます でしょう かitadakemasu deshō kacould you, would it be possible
おへや が ある かoheya ga aru kawhether there are rooms

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