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🇯🇵 Japanese · Advanced Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The birth notice

At the ward office counter, Ben files the birth notice within fourteen days: the name in hiragana, the reading box, and the surname, which in Japan is her mother's, Yamamoto, because the child goes on her family register.

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THE STORY

The counter at the ward office in the north of Kyoto, on the twelfth day, with Yui's note in Ben's pocket. Ben is polite and humble with the clerk; the clerk is polite and respectful with him.

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しゅっしょうとどけ を、 だし に まいりました。shusshōtodoke o, dashi ni mairimashitaI've come to file the birth notice.
じゅうよっか いない に。jūyokka inai niWithin fourteen days.
おなまえ は、 どんな じ です か？onamae wa, donna ji desu kaThe name: in which characters?
はな です。 ひらがな だけ です。Hana desu. hiragana dake desuHana. In hiragana only.
では、 ふりがな の らん も、 ひらがな で。dewa, furigana no ran mo, hiragana deThen the reading box too, in hiragana.
みょうじ は、 おかあさま の こせき の、 やまもと です。myōji wa, okāsama no koseki no, Yamamoto desuThe surname is Yamamoto, from the mother's family register.
カナダ で は、 わたし の みょうじ です。Kanada de wa, watashi no myōji desuIn Canada, she has my surname.
にほん で は、 やまもと はな です。 うけつけました。Nihon de wa, Yamamoto Hana desu. uketsukemashitaIn Japan, Yamamoto Hana. Accepted.