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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The housewarming

Kenta and Natsuki bring moving-in soba to the old house: the house is seventy years old, I hear, the stairs talk at night, Natsuki finds it a bit ghost-ish, Hana laughs at Kenta, and Yui and Ben see what everyone sees but Kenta.

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THE STORY

The front room of the old house in Asakusa, a box of soba from the Hanaya on the table, Hana in Kenta's arms. Kenta, Yui and Ben are plain with each other; Natsuki is polite with everyone, and Ben and Yui are polite with her.

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ひっこし そば。 ばあちゃん が、 きまり だ って。hikkoshi soba. bāchan ga, kimari da tteMoving-in soba. Grandma says it's the rule.
けんた さん が、 ずっと もって くださいました。Kenta-san ga, zutto motte kudasaimashitaMr. Kenta carried it the whole way.
この いえ、 ななじゅうねん らしい よ。kono ie, nanajū-nen rashii yoThis house is seventy years old, I hear.
よる、 かいだん が はなす ん だ。yoru, kaidan ga hanasu n daAt night, the stairs talk.
ちょっと、 おばけ っぽい です ね。chotto, obake-ppoi desu neIt's a bit ghost-ish.
はな が、 ぼく に わらった。Hana ga, boku ni warattaHana laughed at me.
なつき の かお、 みた？Natsuki no kao, mitaDid you see Natsuki's face?
みんな みた。 けんた いがい は。minna mita. Kenta igai waEveryone saw. Except Kenta.