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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

The Typhoon

Saturday the eighteenth of September. A typhoon stops the bullet trains on the morning Ben and Yui were to go to Kyoto to see reception venues with Miss Morita. Learn the uses of wake. So that's why, no wonder (wake da). It's not that (wake ja nai). There's no way (wake ga nai). Talk about a typhoon, getting ready, a power cut, and an evening by candlelight.

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THE STORY

Saturday, the eighteenth of September. Ben and Yui were to take the eight o'clock bullet train to Kyoto, to see three reception venues with Miss Morita, but a typhoon has come up from the south and the bullet trains have stopped. They tape the windows and fill the bath, Kenta phones from the Hanaya, and Maple goes under the bed and won't come out. That evening the lights go off, and by candlelight, with no phone and no TV, they really talk. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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たいふうtaifūtyphoon
かぜkazewind
かぜ が つよい。kaze ga tsuyoiThe wind is strong.
とまったtomattastopped, plain past
たいふう で、 しんかんせん が とまった。taifū de, shinkansen ga tomattaThe bullet trains have stopped because of the typhoon.
こんで いたkonde itawas crowded
わけ だwake daso that's why, no wonder
だから えき が こんで いた わけ だ。dakara eki ga konde ita wake daSo that's why the station was so crowded.
けんがくkengakuvisit, viewing
プランナー に でんわ しなきゃ。 きょう の けんがく は むり。purannā ni denwa shinakya. kyō no kengaku wa muriI've got to call the planner. Today's visit is impossible.

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