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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The daycare application

The ward office's childcare counter with the points sheet: both parents work, so a hundred points, nights add five, and in the case of grandparents within thirty minutes, minus five; Ben can't believe family counts against you.

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THE STORY

The childcare counter of the ward office in Kyoto, the points sheet between them. Ben and Yui are polite with the clerk; the clerk is respectful with them; Ben is plain with Yui.

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ほいくえん の、 おもうしこみ です ね。hoikuen no, omōshikomi desu neThe daycare application, is it?
ふたり とも、 はたらいて います。futari tomo, hataraite imasuBoth of us are working.
その ばあい は、 ひゃく てん。sono baai wa, hyaku tenIn that case, a hundred points.
わたし は、 やきん も あります。watashi wa, yakin mo arimasuI have night shifts too.
やきん の ばあい は、 ご てん ふえます。yakin no baai wa, go ten fuemasuIn the case of nights, five points more.
りょうしん が、 ちかい ばあい は？ryōshin ga, chikai baai waIn the case of my parents being near?
さんじゅっぷん いない なら、 マイナス ご てん。sanjuppun inai nara, mainasu go tenIf within thirty minutes, minus five points.
マイナス？ かぞく が いる のに？mainasu? kazoku ga iru noniMinus? Even though we have family?