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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 33 MINUTES

Two Exams

Sunday the second of July, the day of two exams. Ben sits N2 in the morning, the one he put off until after the wedding, and Mike sits N5 in the afternoon. Aya waits at the station at eight with rice balls, because Yui, on a day shift, told her Ben never eats breakfast on an exam day. Between the exams Mike complains that Aya made him study every night, and at home Ben has a complaint of his own, Yui put him to bed at eleven. Learn the long made-to form of do (benkyou saseraremashita), the once ending (tabetara, goukaku shitara), that's why (dakara, goukaku suru no), and the exam words of a year ago, from the supervisor's begin to the results at the end of August.

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THE STORY

Sunday, the second of July, twenty twenty-eight. Eight in the morning, the gate of the station by the exam hall. Ben sits N2 at half past nine, the exam he put off until after the wedding; Mike sits N5 at ten past three, and has come with Ben anyway, because Aya said so. Yui is on a day shift at the hospital, and Aya is waiting at the gate with a paper bag. At twenty to one Ben comes out, and Mike has a complaint. At seven, at home, Ben has one too. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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たべずにtabezu niwithout eating
きょう も、 あさごはん を たべずに きました。kyō mo, asagohan o tabezu ni kimashitaI came without breakfast again today.
おこされましたokosaremashitawas woken, politely
ごじ に おこされました。goji ni okosaremashitaI was woken at five.
たべたらtabetaraonce you've eaten
たべたら、 さいご の れんしゅう。tabetara, saigo no renshūOnce you've eaten, one last practice.
ギリギリgirigirionly just, by a hair
どっかい は、 また ギリギリ でした。dokkai wa, mata girigiri deshitaThe reading was only just, again.
させられたsaseraretawas made to do, the long form
させられましたsaseraremashitawas made to do, politely

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