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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The show

Ben's first performance, Time Noodles, at a small hall in Asakusa with the whole Hanaya in the front row: Mr. Hoshino sends him on with one time, one meeting, Kenta heckles, Mrs. Sato hushes him, Sota shouts the answer, and afterwards Yui tells him the moment he said four the whole room laughed.

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THE STORY

A Saturday evening in July, a small hall in Asakusa, the Hanaya in the front row. Mr. Hoshino and Kenta are plain with Ben; Ben is polite with the audience; Mrs. Sato is plain with Kenta.

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いちご いちえ だ。 いって こい。ichigo ichie da. itte koiOne time, one meeting. Off you go.
メープル です。 ねこ の なまえ です。 ねこ は、 はんたい でした。Mēpuru desu. neko no namae desu. neko wa, hantai deshitaI'm Maple. It's my cat's name. She was against it.
メープル、 ま を とれ！Mēpuru, ma o toreMaple, take the pause!
けんた、 しずか に しなさい。Kenta, shizuka ni shinasaiKenta, be quiet.
こたえ は、 ここのつ！kotae wa, kokonotsuThe answer's nine!
……ここのつ です。 とお、 じゅういち……kokonotsu desu. tō, jūichi...Nine, sir. Ten, eleven...
「よっつ」 って いった とたん、yottsu tte itta totanthe moment you said four
「よっつ」 って いった とたん、 みんな わらった。 ししょう も。yottsu tte itta totan, minna waratta. shishō moThe moment you said four, everyone laughed. Even the master.
おじぎ した とたん、 おもった。 はくしゅ は、 ねこ の だ。ojigi shita totan, omotta. hakushu wa, neko no daThe moment I bowed, I thought: the applause is the cat's.