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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 14 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Fishing

At five in the morning after the Daimonji, Yui's father takes Ben fishing on a river in the hills north of Kyoto, and talks about Yui as a little girl. Learn to say what used to happen, with yoku and the past, and with -te ita. Talk about fishing, rods, bait and a bite, ask what someone was like as a child, say what you were like, and bring dinner home.

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THE STORY

Tuesday, the seventeenth of August, five in the morning. Mr. Yamamoto's secret turns out to be two fishing rods and a flask of tea. He drives Ben to a river in the hills north of Kyoto, where he used to take Yui when she was small. For an hour nothing bites, and slowly he starts to talk. Back at the house there's a fish to grill, and that night, the last dinner before Ben and Yui go back to Tokyo. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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さおsaofishing rod
つりtsurifishing
した こと が あるshita koto ga aruhave ever done
ベン くん、 つり は した こと が ある？Ben-kun, tsuri wa shita koto ga aruBen, have you ever been fishing?
よく いきましたyoku ikimashitaoften went
こども の とき、 ちち と よく いきました。kodomo no toki, chichi to yoku ikimashitaAs a child, I often went with my father.
みずうみmizuumilake
カナダ で は、 みずうみ で よく つり を しました。Kanada de wa, mizuumi de yoku tsuri o shimashitaIn Canada, we used to fish on a lake.
つけるtsukeruput on, attach
こう やってkō yattelike this

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