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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 32 MINUTES

Osaka

Friday the twenty-fifth of August, ten in the morning, Tsubame Travel's head office near Osaka station. Mister Okada, the head of the international department, meets Ben in the lobby at the top of his voice, and Missus Hayashi does not wait for the tea. From October, a new team for customers from abroad, and she wants Ben to lead it. Ben asks for time to think, says he'll decide with his wife, and eats octopus balls in Dotonbori with his boss-to-be. Learn to ask a favour the way a president does (jitsu wa, onegai ga aru n desu), to give an Osaka sentence back in Tokyo Japanese (hataraite hoshii n desu ka), and to ask for time in the politest way there is (kangaesasete itadakemasen ka).

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THE STORY

Friday, the twenty-fifth of August, twenty twenty-eight. Ben took the six o'clock bullet train from Tokyo, alone, in his suit, and was in Osaka an hour early. Ten to ten, the lobby of Tsubame Travel's head office, near Osaka station. A big man of about fifty comes out of the lift already talking, takes Ben up to the ninth floor, and Missus Hayashi is at the door of her office. On the table, a sheet of paper, face down. At noon there are octopus balls by a canal, and at three a phone call from a platform. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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おかだOkadaOkada
おねがい が あるonegai ga arua favour to ask
じつ は、 ベン さん に、 おねがい が ある ん です。jitsu wa, Ben-san ni, onegai ga aru n desuActually, I have a favour to ask of you.
わたし に、 おおさか で、 はたらいて ほしい ん です か？watashi ni, Ōsaka de, hataraite hoshii n desu kaYou want me to work in Osaka?
がいこく の おきゃくさまgaikoku no okyakusamacustomers from abroad
あたらしい チームatarashii chīmua new team
じゅうがつ から、 がいこく の おきゃくさま の ため の、 あたらしい チーム を つくります。jūgatsu kara, gaikoku no okyakusama no tame no, atarashii chīmu o tsukurimasuFrom October, we're making a new team for our customers from abroad.
リーダーrīdāthe leader
その チーム の リーダー を、 ベン さん に おねがい したい ん です。sono chīmu no rīdā o, Ben-san ni onegai shitai n desuI'd like to ask you to be that team's leader.
ぶちょうbuchōthe head of a department

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