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🇯🇵 Japanese · Fluency Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Draft one

Late at the flat's kitchen table, Ben reads Yui the first draft of the speech: the humble self-introduction of a speaker, the groom's friend, Ben, with no title, and the years counted since he first met the groom, while Yui asks where he met her and says to put it in.

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THE STORY

The flat's kitchen table late in the evening, Hana asleep and Maple sitting on the draft. Ben and Yui are plain with each other; Ben's speech lines are humble.

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しんろう の ゆうじん、 ベン です。shinrō no yūjin, Ben desuI'm Ben, a friend of the groom.
「さん」 は、 なし。san wa, nashiNo title after your name.
しんろう の ゆうじん の、 ベン と もうします。shinrō no yūjin no, Ben to mōshimasuThe groom's friend, Ben.
しんろう と であって から、 ななねん に なります。shinrō to deatte kara, nananen ni narimasuSeven years since I met the groom.
わたし と は、 どこ で あった の？watashi to wa, doko de atta noWhere did you meet me?
スピーチ に は、 いれない。supīchi ni wa, irenaiThat's not in the speech.
いれて。 みんな、 しって る よ。irete. minna, shitte ru yoPut it in. Everyone knows.
ほっかいどう の ひと は、 しらない よ。hokkaidō no hito wa, shiranai yoThe people from Hokkaido don't.