PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

The Welcome Party

Friday the twentieth of October, twenty twenty-eight, seven in the evening, a room at an izakaya behind Osaka station. The international department's welcome party for Ben, the president for the first hour, the newest person's seat by the door and a bottle in his hand, and Miss Nishimura's rules, a line at a time, under her breath. Ben's few words, short; Mister Okada's, not. At nine a karaoke room, where the boss who makes people sing does, three songs, one of them a duet, and Miss Nishimura, three beers in, slips into Osaka speech to Ben's face. Midnight, the last train missed, a taxi on the boss, and Yui up with Maple at one. Learn the rules of pouring (gurasu ga aitara, tsugimasu; jibun no wa, tsugimasen; tsugaretara, ryoute de, hitokuchi nonde kara, okimasu; itadakimasu, sukoshi dake), the newcomer's few words (madamada desu node, machigaetara, oshiete kudasai), and the made-to forms of a party, short and long (nijikai ni ikasareta; buchou to dyuetto mo utawasareta; utawaserareta, nomaserareta; takushii wa, buchou no ogori). The seventh lesson of Advanced Level 1.

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