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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The long name at the office

At Tsubame Travel's Asakusa office, Ben is muttering the long name of the old story, and Mr. Kudo, who learned it at nursery like every Tokyo child, says it with him and tells him that for a foreigner it is very good, which Ben knows is a complaint inside a compliment.

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THE STORY

Tsubame Travel's small office in Asakusa, two desks and a map of the river. Mr. Kudo is polite with Ben, and Ben polite with him.

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ベン さん、 なに を ぶつぶつ？Ben-san, nani o butsubutsuBen, what are you muttering?
なまえ です。 じゅげむ、 じゅげむ……namae desu. Jugemu, Jugemu...A name. Jugemu, jugemu...
ごこう の すりきれ。 ほいくえん で。gokō no surikire. hoikuen deFive kalpas of wear. From nursery days.
いっしょに いって ください。issho ni itte kudasaiSay it with me.
じゅげむ じゅげむ、 ごこう の すりきれ。Jugemu Jugemu, gokō no surikireJugemu jugemu, five kalpas of wear.
がいこくじん に して は、gaikokujin ni shite wafor a foreigner, considering you're a foreigner
がいこくじん に して は、 じょうず です。gaikokujin ni shite wa, jōzu desuFor a foreigner, that's good.
ほめことば の、 もんく です ね。homekotoba no, monku desu neA complaint in a compliment.
じょうし に して は、 ひま です ね。jōshi ni shite wa, hima desu neFor a boss, you have a lot of free time.