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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A date

A video call to Tokyo, Mike and Aya on one screen: they have decided on August, a hotel in Shinjuku where Mike wanted the Hanaya, Hana will be nine months by then, Mike asks Ben to be their master of ceremonies, Aya says eighty guests and she will correct the script, and Ben accepts, a heavy responsibility but gladly, with the right word to close a wedding this time.

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THE STORY

A video call from the flat in the north of Kyoto to Mike and Aya's in Tokyo, the two of them on one screen. Mike and Aya are polite; Ben is plain with Mike and polite when he accepts; Yui is plain.

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する こと に しました。suru koto ni shimashitawe've decided to: do, then thing, to, did
はちがつ に、 する こと に しました。hachigatsu ni, suru koto ni shimashitaWe've decided on August.
しんじゅく の ホテル です。Shinjuku no hoteru desuA hotel in Shinjuku.
その ころ、 はな は きゅうかげつ。sono koro, Hana wa kyūkagetsuBy then Hana will be nine months.
しかい を、 おねがい できます か？shikai o, onegai dekimasu kaCould you be our master of ceremonies?
ぼく が？ にほんご で？ ひゃくにん？boku ga? nihongo de? hyakuninMe? In Japanese? A hundred people?
はちじゅうにん。 げんこう は、 なおします。hachijūnin. genkō wa, naoshimasuEighty. I'll correct the script.
せきにん は おもい です が、 よろこんで。sekinin wa omoi desu ga, yorokondeIt's a heavy responsibility, but gladly.
「おわり」 じゃ なくて、 「おひらき」 で。"owari" ja nakute, "ohiraki" deNot the end this time, but the closing word.