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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 14 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The welcome party, told

Late at the house in Asakusa, Sota tells Ben and Yui how his welcome party went: what he said, what he was told, what the section chief said and what Ms. Ota said, with the three ways of reporting a line, and Yui names the compliment that is a complaint.

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the old house in Asakusa, late, Hana asleep upstairs. Sota, Ben and Yui are plain with each other.

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「おぼえます」 って、 いった よ。'oboemasu' tte, itta yoI said I'll learn.
うたえ って いわれた。 まいとし の こと らしい。utae tte iwareta. maitoshi no koto rashiiI was told to sing. Apparently it's every year.
おとうさん の うた？otōsan no uta?Dad's song?
かちょう が、 「きょうと の こ だ な」 って いって た。kachō ga, 'kyōto no ko da na' tte itte taThe section chief was saying: a Kyoto boy, after all.
なかま に なった って こと だ。nakama ni natta tte koto daIt means you've become one of them.
おおた さん に、 「わるく ない」 って いわれた。Ōta-san ni, 'waruku nai' tte iwaretaMs. Ota told me: not bad.
ほめて る の に、 もんく に きこえる。homete ru no ni, monku ni kikoeruIt's praise, but it sounds like a complaint.
「はちじ ごふん じゃ なく、 はちじ」 って。'hachiji gofun ja naku, hachiji' tteNot five past eight, eight, she said.