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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The choosing cards

Hana's first birthday goes on with the choosing custom: Natsuki lays out money, a pen, an abacus, a rice scoop and a ball, everyone bets, Yui says surely the pen, and Hana crawls past all of them to the cat.

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THE STORY

Hana's first birthday in the Hanaya's dining room, the five things laid out on the floor. Natsuki is polite with everyone; Ben is plain with Yui and Kenta, polite with Yui's parents; Yui's father is plain, her mother polite.

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おかね、 ペン、 そろばん、 しゃもじ、 ボール です。okane, pen, soroban, shamoji, bōru desuMoney, a pen, an abacus, a rice scoop, a ball.
はなや で たべて る から。Hanaya de tabete ru karabecause she eats at the Hanaya: the short is eating, and because at the end
しゃもじ だ よ。 はなや で たべて る から。shamoji da yo. Hanaya de tabete ru karaThe rice scoop. She eats at the Hanaya.
ボール だ な。 いい あし だ。bōru da na. ii ashi daThe ball. Good legs, those.
きっと ペン。 いしゃ に なる よ。kitto pen. isha ni naru yoThe pen, surely. She'll be a doctor.
あれ？ ぜんぶ、 とおりすぎた。are? zenbu, tōrisugitaHuh? She went past all of them.
……ねこ の ところ です ね。neko no tokoro desu neTo the cat, I see.
じゅうい かも しれません ね。jūi kamo shiremasen neA vet, maybe.
どっち でも、 うれしい です。dotchi demo, ureshii desueither way, we are happy: which of the two, and even
ねこ かな。 どっち でも、 うれしい です。neko kana. dotchi demo, ureshii desuOr a cat, I wonder. Either way, we're happy.