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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Both Families

Saturday the thirteenth of November, ten days before the wedding. The two families have dinner in a private room at the restaurant on the river. Learn the most formal way to say "allow me to", -sasete itadakimasu, for toasts, introductions and speeches. Make a formal toast, welcome someone into a family, pass on your parents' words, hear how the fathers' fishing went, and walk by the river with your sister.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

A year and a half ago, the two families met for the first time, with Ben interpreting everything and kneeling until his legs went numb. Tonight it's a private room at the restaurant on the river, with chairs, ten days before the wedding, and they're almost family. Mr. Yamamoto stands to make the toast. Ben's father wants to say something too. Then Emma, who has been practising in secret, asks if she may say one thing. The fathers' fishing trip turns out to have needed no words at all, and the bill turns out to need a great many. Afterwards, by the river, Ben finds out his big sister has grown up. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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ほんじつhonjitsutoday, formally
ほんじつ は、 とおい ところ を ありがとう ございます。honjitsu wa, tōi tokoro o arigatō gozaimasuThank you all for coming so far today.
りょうけryōkeboth families
やっと りょうけ が そろいました ね。yatto ryōke ga soroimashita neBoth families together, at last.
こしつkoshitsua private room
させて いただきますsasete itadakimasuallow me to
あいさつaisatsua greeting, a short speech
では、 かんぱい の あいさつ を させて いただきます。dewa, kanpai no aisatsu o sasete itadakimasuNow, allow me to propose a toast.
ふたり の しあわせ を いのって、 かんぱい！futari no shiawase o inotte, kanpaiTo the happiness of these two. Cheers!
ちち も、 ひとこと いわせて いただきたい と いって います。chichi mo, hitokoto iwasete itadakitai to itte imasuMy father would like to say a few words too.

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