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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Housework

Two weeks after the honeymoon, the dishes keep piling up, so Yui draws up a housework chart for the fridge. Ben gets the rubbish and the washing, Maple sits on the chart, and that evening Ben finds a way round the new rule. Learn -te hoshii, for what you want someone to do, and casual requests with -te kureru and -te moraeru.

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THE STORY

Sunday, December the twelfth, twenty twenty-seven. Ben and Yui have been home from the honeymoon for two weeks, and the dishes have piled up again. Yui, who has a night shift on Monday, draws up a housework chart for the fridge. Ben agrees to every line of it, and Maple sits on it. That evening, Ben cooks curry, again. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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たまってるtamatterupiled up
おさら が また たまってる よ。osara ga mata tamatteru yoThe dishes have piled up again.
あらうarauwash
あとで あらう よ。atode arau yoI'll wash them later.
きのう も そう いった でしょ。kinō mo sō itta deshoYou said that yesterday too.
ごめん。 いま あらう。gomen. ima arauSorry. I'll wash them now.
かじkajihousework
ひょうhyōa chart
ねえ、 かじ の ひょう を つくらない？nē, kaji no hyō o tsukuranaiHey, why don't we make a housework chart?
だして ほしいdashite hoshiiwant you to put out

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