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🇯🇵 Japanese · Intermediate Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

The Year-End Party

Sakura English has its year-end party at an izakaya near Ueno. Mister Kimura asks Ben, as head teacher, to lead the toast, and then has a few words of his own first. Miss Aoki makes Mike sing, everyone makes Ben drink, and at midnight Yui is still up. Learn the short made-to form, for what you were made to do (utawasareta, nomasareta, kikasareta), and how to offer, humbly, to lead the toast (torasete itadakimasu).

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

Friday, December the seventeenth, twenty twenty-seven. Sakura English has booked a room at an izakaya near Ueno for its year-end party. Mister Kimura asks Ben, as head teacher, to lead the toast, but first he has a few words of his own. Later there's karaoke, and Miss Aoki has a job for Mike. At midnight, Ben gets home, and Yui is still up. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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かんぱい の おんどkanpai no ondoleading the toast
かんぱい の おんど を おねがいします。kanpai no ondo o onegaishimasuPlease lead the toast.
とらせて いただきますtorasete itadakimasuallow me to take
かんぱい の おんど を とらせて いただきます。kanpai no ondo o torasete itadakimasuAllow me to lead the toast.
その まえ にsono mae nibefore that
あ、 その まえ に、 わたし から ひとこと。a, sono mae ni, watashi kara hitokotoOh, before that, a few words from me.
ぬるいnuruilukewarm
せんぱい、 ビール が ぬるく なりました。senpai, bīru ga nuruku narimashitaSenpai, the beer's gone warm.
きむら さん の ひとこと は、 いつも ながい です ね。Kimura-san no hitokoto wa, itsumo nagai desu neMister Kimura's few words are always long, aren't they?
では、 ベン さん、 どうぞ。dewa, Ben-san, dōzoNow then, Ben, go ahead.

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