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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Golden Week in Nara

The deer park in Nara on Golden Week with Yui's parents: the cracker seller names her price in Nara speech, a deer bows deeper than Ben, Yui's mother tells her not to overdo it, Yui answers that it is the fifth month, not the ninth, her father says the Great Buddha can wait ten minutes, Ben goes for tea without anyone overdoing it, and the deer eats his map.

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THE STORY

The deer park in Nara on a Golden Week morning, crowds, crackers and a thousand bowing deer. Yui and her parents are plain with each other; Ben is polite with her parents and with the seller, plain with Yui.

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しか せんべい、 にひゃく えん や で。shika senbei, nihyaku en ya deDeer crackers, two hundred yen.
ふたつ、 ください。futatsu, kudasaiTwo, please.
しか の おじぎ、 ベン より ふかい。shika no ojigi, Ben yori fukaiThe deer's bow is deeper than yours.
むり を しないで ね。muri o shinaide nedon't overdo it: the negative request, with the soft ending
ゆい、 むり を しないで ね。Yui, muri o shinaide neYui, don't overdo it.
ごかげつ だ よ。 きゅうかげつ じゃ ない。gokagetsu da yo. kyūkagetsu ja naiIt's the fifth month, not the ninth.
だいぶつ は、 じゅっぷん くらい まてる。daibutsu wa, juppun kurai materuThe Great Buddha can wait ten minutes.
みなさん、 むり の ない よう に。minasan, muri no nai yō niEveryone, without overdoing it.
しか が、 ちず を たべた。shika ga, chizu o tabetaThe deer ate your map.