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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Aya's Lesson

On Saturday, Ben meets Aya, Mike's girlfriend and a teacher of Japanese, at a cafe near Ueno, for a lesson in the polite Japanese of business. Mike comes too, for the cake, and soon wishes he hadn't. Learn the humble verbs that lower yourself, moushimasu, orimasu, ukagaimasu and mairimasu, with Aya's one rule, and thank someone for teaching you (oshiete kudasatte). Then look back at everything from Part 1.

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THE STORY

Saturday, January the fifteenth, twenty twenty-eight. Ben meets Aya, Mike's girlfriend and a teacher of Japanese, at a cafe near Ueno, for a lesson in polite language before his first meeting with Tsubame Travel. Mike comes too, for the cake. Aya has one rule, and a lot of practice, for Ben and for Mike. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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きょう は よろしく おねがいします。kyō wa yoroshiku onegaishimasuI'm in your hands today.
こちら こそ。kochira kosoLikewise.
マイク から、 はなし は きいて います。Maiku kara, hanashi wa kiite imasuMike's told me all about it.
たべ に きましたtabe ni kimashitacame to eat
ケーキ を たべ に きました。kēki o tabe ni kimashitaI've come to eat cake.
けいご の ルール は ひとつ です。keigo no rūru wa hitotsu desuPolite language has one rule.
あいて を あげてaite o ageteraise the other person
じぶん を さげるjibun o sagerulower yourself
みうちmiuchiyour own people
あいて を あげて、 じぶん と みうち を さげる ん です。aite o agete, jibun to miuchi o sageru n desuRaise the other person, and lower yourself and your own people.

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