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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 28 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The big clean

The Hanaya's year-end clean: a window left open since summer, the light left on and the till left out, Natsuki noticing everything about the inn, and Kenta's first huh, scrubbing brush in hand.

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THE STORY

The Hanaya on the morning of the year-end clean, buckets in the hall and Mrs. Sato in the kitchen. Kenta, Ben and Yui are plain with each other; Natsuki is polite with everyone, and Kenta plain with her.

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おおそうじ だ。 ベン は まど を ぴかぴか に。ōsōji da. Ben wa mado o pikapika niBig clean. Ben, the windows, till they gleam.
あけっぱなしakeppanashileft open, as it is: the stem of open, and the tail
この まど、 なつ から あけっぱなし じゃ ない？kono mado, natsu kara akeppanashi ja naiThis window's been left open since summer, hasn't it?
でんき も つけっぱなし、 レジ も だしっぱなし です。denki mo tsukeppanashi, reji mo dashippanashi desuThe light's left on, and the till's left out, too.
……きづいて た？kizuite taYou'd noticed?
りょかん の こと なら、 なんでも きづきます。ryokan no koto nara, nandemo kizukimasuAbout the inn, I notice everything.
いま の、 きいた？ima no, kiitaDid you hear that?
え？ ……え。e? ...eHuh? ...Huh.
はなしかけないで。hanashikakenaidedon't talk to him: speak and start, joined, in the don't form
かんがえて る。 はなしかけないで。 はじめて だ から。kangaete ru. hanashikakenaide. hajimete da karaHe's thinking. Don't talk to him. It's his first time.