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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The daycare gate

Five o'clock at the daycare gate: Miss Endo tells Hana's father that Hana was singing all day, the cat song with her first word in it, that she ate everything, as the notebook says; Ben has Hana wave bye-bye, and says her mother comes to pick her up tomorrow.

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THE STORY

The daycare gate in Asakusa at five o'clock, Hana on Ben's arm, Miss Endo at the door. Miss Endo and Ben are polite with each other; Ben is plain with Hana, who never speaks.

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はな ちゃん、 きょう は ずっと うたって いました。Hana-chan, kyō wa zutto utatte imashitaHana was singing all day today.
なに を うたって いた ん です か？nani o utatte ita n desu kaSinging what?
ねこ の うた。 「にゃんにゃん」 って。neko no uta. nyan-nyan tteThe cat song. Nya-nya.
はじめて の ことば です。 いま も、 だいすき です。hajimete no kotoba desu. ima mo, daisuki desuHer first word. Still her favourite.
ぜんぶ たべました。 れんらくちょう に。zenbu tabemashita. renrakuchō niShe ate everything. It's in the notebook.
はな、 えんどう せんせい に、 バイバイ は？Hana, Endō-sensei ni, baibai waHana, bye-bye to Miss Endo?
はな ちゃん、 また あした。Hana-chan, mata ashitaSee you tomorrow, Hana.
あした は、 おかあさん が おむかえ です。ashita wa, okāsan ga omukae desuTomorrow, her mother picks her up.