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🇯🇵 Japanese · Beginner Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

The First Class

It's seven in the evening on Ben's first day, and eight students are waiting. Start a class, ask people to open their books, listen and repeat, ask if there are questions, give homework, and end the day the Japanese way. Afterwards, Ms. Aoki wants to know how it went, and Yui calls from Kyoto.

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THE STORY

It's seven in the evening on Friday, the first of August, and Ben's first class is waiting on the third floor, eight students with their textbooks, most of them straight from work. The class is in English, but it begins and ends in Japanese. In the second row sits a young woman who doesn't say a word. An hour later, down in the staff room, Ms. Aoki wants to hear everything. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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みなさん、 こんばんは。minasan, konbanwaGood evening, everyone.
ベン です。 カナダ から きました。Ben desu. kanada kara kimashitaI'm Ben. I'm from Canada.
じゅぎょうjugyōlesson, class
はじめますhajimemasubegin
はじめましょうhajimemashōlet's begin
じゃ、 はじめましょう。ja, hajimemashōRight, let's begin.
きょうかしょkyōkashotextbook
じゅう ページjū pējipage ten
ひらいて くださいhiraite kudasaiplease open
きょうかしょ の じゅう ページ を ひらいて ください。kyōkasho no jū pēji o hiraite kudasaiPlease open your textbooks at page ten.

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