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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

White Day

Tuesday, the fourteenth of March, is White Day, when men in Japan give something back for February's chocolate. Ben has three return gifts, for Yui, for his class at Tsubame Travel and for Aya, and Kenta has told him the rule. Learn to receive and give humbly (itadakimashita, sashiagemashita), what to say as you hand a present over (hon no kimochi desu), and when the plain moratta and ageta are enough.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Tuesday, March the fourteenth, twenty twenty-eight, White Day. In Japan, women give chocolate in February, and a month later, men give something back. At seven in the morning, Yui asks Ben if he has forgotten. He hasn't, and Kenta has told him the rule. At ten to nine, after his first class since the email, Ben thanks his students at Tsubame Travel for their chocolate, humbly, and hands over a box of sweets. Then he tells Mister Fujita. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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マカロンmakaronmacarons
てづくりtezukurihomemade
てづくり チョコ の おかえし。tezukuri choko no okaeshiIn return for your homemade chocolate.
さんばいsanbaithree times
さんばいがえしsanbaigaeshigiving back three times
ホワイトデー は、 さんばいがえし だ よ。howaitodē wa, sanbaigaeshi da yoOn White Day, you give back three times.
クラス の みんな から も、 チョコ を もらった。kurasu no minna kara mo, choko o morattaI got chocolate from my class too.
じゃ、 あと ふたつ？ja, ato futatsuSo, two more to come?
こんや は、 ぼく が つくる。 おさら も あらう。kon'ya wa, boku ga tsukuru. osara mo arauTonight, I'll cook. And I'll do the dishes too.
あや さん の ほん、 よんだ？Aya-san no hon, yondaDid you read Aya's book?

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