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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The float procession

The morning of the Gion Festival parade, from a shop's second floor with Aunt Fumiko: she asks in Osaka speech whether it's a boy or a girl, Yui says they've decided not to ask, Ben says they've decided to find out in October, Yui's mother says watch the float, and Aunt Fumiko asks Ben to tell her secretly.

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THE STORY

A shop's second floor on the main street of Kyoto, the floats passing below, Aunt Fumiko up from Osaka beside Yui's mother. Aunt Fumiko is polite with Ben and plain with her sister, with Osaka in it; Yui and her mother are plain; Ben is polite with Aunt Fumiko.

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おとこ の こ？ おんな の こ？ おしえて や。otoko no ko? onna no ko? oshiete yaA boy or a girl? Tell me, go on.
きかない こと に した の。kikanai koto ni shita noWe've decided not to ask.
いま は わかる のに、 きかない の？ima wa wakaru noni, kikanai noNow you can know, and you don't ask?
じゅうがつ に、 しる こと に しました。jūgatsu ni, shiru koto ni shimashitaWe've decided to find out in October.
やま が まわる わ よ。 みて。yama ga mawaru wa yo. miteThe float's turning. Watch.
ろくじゅうねん、 みて る わ。 あかちゃん は？rokujūnen, mite ru wa. akachan waI've watched it sixty years. The baby?
じゃ、 じゅうがつ に きて。ja, jūgatsu ni kiteThen come in October.
おしえて くれます ね。 ないしょ で。oshiete kuremasu ne. naisho deYou'll tell me, won't you. Secretly.