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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 29 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Okinawa

Two days after the wedding, Ben and Yui land in Okinawa, where it's still warm in November. The innkeeper welcomes them the Okinawan way, news from home arrives on the way to the beach, there's a turtle in the coral, and Ben finally opens the school's card, lying on the sand without sunscreen. Then bitter melon for dinner. Learn the Okinawan welcome, talk about plans with yotei and the -tari form, the beach, snorkelling, sunscreen and sunburn, Okinawan food, passing on messages with tte, and taking it easy.

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THE STORY

Two days after the wedding, Ben and Yui land in Okinawa, the islands in the far south of Japan, where the sea is turquoise and the air is soft even in November. Their inn is a small white house near the beach, with two stone lion-dogs on the roof. Ben has a list of things to do. Yui has a list of things not to do. On the way to the beach, news from home. On the sand, Ben opens the card from school at last, and forgets the sunscreen. That evening, bitter melon. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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めんそーれmensōrewelcome, in Okinawa
めんそーれ！ おきなわ へ ようこそ。mensōre! Okinawa e yōkosoWelcome to Okinawa, the Okinawan way.
じゅういちがつ な のにjūichigatsu na nonieven though it's November
あたたかい！ じゅういちがつ な のに。atatakai! jūichigatsu na noniIt's warm! Even though it's November.
しんこん りょこう です か？shinkon ryokō desu kaAre you on your honeymoon?
おとといototoithe day before yesterday
はい。 おととい けっこん しました。hai. ototoi kekkon shimashitaYes. We got married the day before yesterday.
シーサーshīsālion-dog statue
まもって いますmamotte imasuprotecting
シーサー が いえ を まもって います。shīsā ga ie o mamotte imasuThe lion-dogs protect the house.

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