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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 12 OF 30 · 32 MINUTES

Business Cards

At two o'clock on the first of February, Mister Fujita, the manager of Tsubame Travel's Tokyo office, comes out to meet Ben. He's about fifty, from Osaka, and very polite, until he laughs. In a meeting room they exchange business cards with both hands and a bow, Ben is given the seat furthest from the door, and Mister Fujita sets out the plan for the classes. Learn to receive a card (choudai itashimasu), to ask humbly to look at something (haiken shite mo yoroshii deshou ka), and to raise the other side while you lower your own.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Tuesday, February the first, twenty twenty-eight, two o'clock. Mister Fujita, the manager of Tsubame Travel's Tokyo office, about fifty and from Osaka, meets Ben and takes him to a meeting room. They exchange business cards, Ben is given the seat furthest from the door, and Mister Fujita sets out the plan for the classes. Then he asks Ben about Osaka, and laughs. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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りょうて でryōte dewith both hands
いたしますitashimasudo, humbly
ちょうだい いたしますchōdai itashimasuThank you. I'll take it.
つばめ トラベル の ふじた と もうします。Tsubame Toraberu no Fujita to mōshimasuI'm Fujita, of Tsubame Travel.
おく の せきoku no sekithe seat at the back
どうぞ、 おく の せき へ。dōzo, oku no seki ePlease, take the seat at the back.
いえいえ、 わたし は こちら で……ie ie, watashi wa kochira deNo, no, I'm fine here...
ベン さん は、 おきゃくさま です から。Ben-san wa, okyakusama desu karaYou're our guest, after all.
うち の スタッフuchi no sutaffuour staff
じゅうににんjūninintwelve people

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