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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 15 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Dinner with Mister Fujita

Thursday evening, an okonomiyaki restaurant in Nihonbashi. Mister Fujita takes Ben and Mister Kimura to dinner, cooks the okonomiyaki himself, the Osaka way, and keeps telling them to eat. He raises his guests with respectful verbs, and when Ben tries one on himself, the whole table laughs. Learn respectful eating and drinking (meshiagatte kudasai, nani o onomi ni narimasu ka), the o- and ni narimasu pattern, and the humble itadakimasu, for yourself.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Thursday, February the twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-eight, seven in the evening. Mister Fujita takes Ben and Mister Kimura to an okonomiyaki restaurant in Nihonbashi, and cooks for them himself, the Osaka way. He keeps telling them to eat, with a respectful verb, and Ben, trying hard to be polite, uses it about himself. Then Mister Fujita has an invitation, and at nine, Mister Kimura goes home first, as always. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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おのみ に なりますonomi ni narimasuwill drink, respectfully
なに を おのみ に なります か。nani o onomi ni narimasu kaWhat will you have to drink?
ビール を いただきます。bīru o itadakimasuI'll have a beer.
やくyakuto cook on a hot plate
おおさか で は、 じぶん で やく ん です。Ōsaka de wa, jibun de yaku n desuIn Osaka, we cook it ourselves.
おさえないで ください！osaenaide kudasaiPlease don't press it down!
あつい うち にatsui uchi niwhile it's hot
あつい うち に、 めしあがって ください。atsui uchi ni, meshiagatte kudasaiPlease eat it while it's hot.
セリフserifua line, in a play
それ は わたし の セリフ です よ！sore wa watashi no serifu desu yoThat's my line!

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