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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Scared of buns

At the hall, Mr. Hoshino starts Ben on the first scene of the bun story, five friends naming what they fear, tells him his old man sounds like a boy, and shows him how the clever one says buns as if ashamed; at home Yui asks for the bun man and finds him fake-sounding, which is the point.

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THE STORY

The neighbourhood hall on a Thursday evening, then the kitchen at home in Asakusa. Ben is polite with Mr. Hoshino, plain inside the story and with Yui.

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おれ は へび。 おれ は かえる。 おれ は くも。ore wa hebi. ore wa kaeru. ore wa kumoMe, snakes. Me, frogs. Me, spiders.
こどもっぽい な。kodomoppoi nasounds like a boy: child, with the sounds-like ending
こどもっぽい な。 あご を ひいて。kodomoppoi na. ago o hiiteSounds like a boy. Drop your chin.
まんじゅう が こわい ひと は？manjū ga kowai hito waAnd the one scared of buns?
あいつ は かしこい。 はずかしそう に。aitsu wa kashikoi. hazukashisō niHe's the clever one. As if ashamed.
おれ は…… まんじゅう。ore wa... manjūMe... buns.
まんじゅう の ひと、 やって みて。manjū no hito, yatte miteDo the bun man for me.
なんか、 うそっぽい。nanka, usoppoiSounds kind of fake.
それ で いい。 うそ だ から。sore de ii. uso da karaThat's the point. He's lying.