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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The night Hana is born

The Kyoto hospital at eleven at night, three weeks early: the midwife says there's still a way to go, the doctor hedges that it could be dawn or it could be sooner, Ben sends Yui's parents home and promises to phone, Yui says he smells of bullet train, and the name is decided, Hana, in hiragana.

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THE STORY

The Kyoto hospital at eleven at night, Ben straight off the last train, Yui's parents in the corridor. The midwife and the doctor are polite; Ben is humble with Yui's parents and plain with Yui.

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ベン さん、 こちら へ。 まだまだ です よ。Ben-san, kochira e. madamada desu yoBen, this way. There's still a way to go.
あさ かも しれません し、asa kamo shiremasen shiit could be dawn, and: the first hedge, with the little and at its end
あさ かも しれません し、 もっと はやい かも しれません。asa kamo shiremasen shi, motto hayai kamo shiremasenIt could be dawn, or it could be sooner.
なに か あれば、 でんわ いたします。nani ka areba, denwa itashimasuIf anything happens, I'll phone.
ねない よ。 ふたり とも。 でんわ しろ。nenai yo. futari tomo. denwa shiroWe won't sleep. Either of us. Phone anyway.
きた ね。 しんかんせん の におい。kita ne. shinkansen no nioiYou came. You smell of bullet train.
おんなのこ なら…… はな？ ひらがな で。onnanoko nara... Hana? hiragana deIf it's a girl... Hana? In hiragana.
はな。 はなや から。 きまり。Hana. Hanaya kara. kimariHana. From the Hanaya. Decided.
て を にぎって。 なに も いわない で。te o nigitte. nani mo iwanai deNow hold my hand and say nothing.