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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 1 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES Free

Born

Three in the morning in a Kyoto hospital: the midwife gives the news with the weight, Yui sees Ben's nose on the baby, Ben holds his daughter and tells her he is her dad, and then phones Yui's mother with the time of the birth.

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Lesson 1 · Born

Japanese · 30 minutes

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Three in the morning in a Kyoto hospital room, then the phone. Ben is plain with Yui and with Hana, and polite and humble with Yui's mother.

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げんき な おんなのこ です よ。 さんぜん ひゃく グラム。genki na onnanoko desu yo. sanzen hyaku guramuA healthy girl. Three thousand one hundred grams.
よく がんばった ね。yoku ganbatta neYou did so well.
かお、 みせて。 ベン の はな ね。kao, misete. Ben no hana neLet me see her face. She has your nose.
おとうさん、 だいて ください。 あたま、 ささえて ね。otōsan, daite kudasai. atama, sasaete neFather, please hold her. Support her head.
はな、 パパ だ よ。Hana, papa da yoHana, I'm your dad.
さんじ に、 ぶじ に うまれました。sanji ni, buji ni umaremashitaShe was born safely at three.
よかった。 ゆい は？ いま、 いきます。yokatta. Yui wa? ima, ikimasuThank goodness. How is Yui? I'm coming now.
ふたり とも、 ねて おります。 あさ、 おこし ください。futari tomo, nete orimasu. asa, okoshi kudasaiThey're both asleep. Please come in the morning.