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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Natsuki's parents on the phone

At the Hanaya's front desk, Natsuki's mother phones from Hokkaido and asks everything, her father asks for the owner, Kenta says his first humble words to him, her father answers with the sentence a parent says to the people his daughter works with, invites him north and says goodbye the Hokkaido way, and Ben reads the one word that mattered.

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THE STORY

The front desk of the Hanaya in Asakusa on a quiet afternoon, the phone from Hokkaido. Natsuki and her parents are plain with each other; her father is polite with Kenta, then humble about his daughter; Kenta is humble and terrified; Ben is plain with Kenta.

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なつやすみ は、 かえって くる の？natsuyasumi wa, kaette kuru no?Are you coming home for the summer holiday?
おかあさん、 いちばん いそがしい きせつ な の。okāsan, ichiban isogashii kisetsu na noIt's the busiest season, Mum.
しゃちょう さん に、 かわって。shachō-san ni, kawattePut the owner on.
はじめまして。 はなや の けんた と もうします。hajimemashite. Hanaya no Kenta to mōshimasuHow do you do. I'm Kenta, of the Hanaya.
ささき です。 むすめ が、 いつも おせわ に なって おります。Sasaki desu. musume ga, itsumo osewa ni natte orimasuSasaki. My daughter is always in your care.
なつ、 ほっかいどう へ。 はなしましょう。natsu, Hokkaidō e. hanashimashōSummer, to Hokkaido. We'll talk.
したっけ ね。shitakke neWell then, bye.
「はなしましょう」 なら、 いい ほう だ。'hanashimashō' nara, ii hō daIf it's we'll talk, that's the good one.