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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Told on the way home

On the train home from the airport after Golden Week in Toronto, Yui's parents tell the trip: two fathers four hours in one boat without a word, the fish that got away, which is always big, the mornings they never got lost on, Hana's word for a canoe, and next year at Lake Biwa.

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THE STORY

The Narita Express into Tokyo, the four grown-ups who went to Toronto and Hana asleep on Yui. Yui's father is plain with Ben, her mother polite; Ben is polite with both; Yui is plain with her parents.

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よじかん、 ひとこと も なし。yojikan, hitokoto mo nashiFour hours, not a word.
それ で、 さかな は、 いっぴき も なし。sore de, sakana wa, ippiki mo nashiAnd not a single fish.
これ くらい の が かかった ものの、kore kurai no ga kakatta mononoone this big bit, although
これ くらい の が かかった ものの、 にがした。kore kurai no ga kakatta monono, nigashitaOne this big bit, though it got away.
にがした さかな は、 おおきい。nigashita sakana wa, ōkiiThe fish that got away is big.
ちち も、 えいご で いいます。chichi mo, eigo de iimasuMy father says it in English too.
ごじ に でかけた ものの、 まよいません でした。goji ni dekaketa monono, mayoimasen deshitaWe went out at five, though we never got lost.
はな は、 カヌー に 「ぶーぶー」 って。Hana wa, kanū ni 'būbū' tteHana said bu-bu to a canoe.
らいねん は、 びわこ。 おとうさん に つたえて くれ。rainen wa, Biwako. otōsan ni tsutaete kureNext year, Lake Biwa. Tell your father.