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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Time Noodles, the sly customer

At the hall Mr. Hoshino starts Time Noodles: a noodle stand late at night, a customer who flatters the sign, the chopsticks and the broth, slurps, pays his sixteen coins one by one in the old numbers, asks the time at eight, and walks off one coin ahead while a man in the shadows watches.

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THE STORY

Thursday evening at the neighbourhood hall, Ben on the cushion with the fan in his hand. Mr. Hoshino is plain with Ben; inside the story, the customer is plain and the seller polite.

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よなか の そば や に、 よく しゃべる きゃく。yonaka no soba-ya ni, yoku shaberu kyakuA midnight noodle stand, and a chatty customer.
せんす が はし。 ズルズル。sensu ga hashi. zuru-zuruThe fan is the chopsticks. Slurp.
じゅうろく もん だ ね。 て を だして。jūroku mon da ne. te o dashiteSixteen coins, right? Hold out your hand.
ひ、 ふ、 み、 よ、 いつ、 む、 なな、 や…… いま なんどき だい？hi, fu, mi, yo, itsu, mu, nana, ya... ima nandoki daiOne, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... what time is it, friend?
へい、 ここのつ です。hei, kokonotsu desuNine, sir.
とお、 じゅういち…… じゅうろく。 おやすみ。tō, jūichi... jūroku. oyasumiTen, eleven... sixteen. Good night.
ここのつ を とばした。 おとこ が みて いた。kokonotsu o tobashita. otoko ga mite itaHe skipped nine. A man was watching.