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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The health visitor

The newborn visit at the flat, the scales on the kitchen table: the health visitor says humbly why she has come, Ben answers her questions as the father on leave, Hana has gained well, the room must stay at twenty degrees, and Yui says that as a mother she is a beginner.

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THE STORY

Ten in the morning in the flat in the north of Kyoto, the scales on the kitchen table. The health visitor is polite and humble; Ben and Yui are polite with her.

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しんせいじ ほうもん で、 まいりました。shinseiji hōmon de, mairimashitaI've come for the newborn visit.
ちちおや です。 いくきゅう ちゅう です。chichioya desu. ikukyū chū desuI'm the father. I'm on childcare leave.
じゅにゅう は、 なんかい です か？junyū wa, nankai desu kaHow many feeds a day?
はっかい です。 さんじかん おき に、 よる も。hakkai desu. sanjikan oki ni, yoru moEight. Every three hours, nights too.
よんせん にひゃく。 よく ふえて ます ね。yonsen nihyaku. yoku fuete masu neFour thousand two hundred. Gained well.
する よう に して ください。suru yō ni shite kudasaimake sure to do: so that it is, do, please
にじゅうど に する よう に して ください。nijūdo ni suru yō ni shite kudasaiMake sure it stays at twenty degrees.
はは と して は、 しょしんしゃ です。haha to shite wa, shoshinsha desuAs a mother, I'm a beginner.
みんな、 しょしんしゃ です。 じょうず です よ。minna, shoshinsha desu. jōzu desu yoEveryone's a beginner. You're good.