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JAPANESE LANGUAGE |
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TOPIC: |
Reading Review I |
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Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (1994) Japanese
for Busy People I (Revised Edition) Lesson 11 |
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DATE: |
10 March 2003 |
Buraun-san wa ABC no bengoshi desu. Soshite Sumisu-san no tomodachi desu. Buraun-san wa kotoshi no 6-gatsu ni hitori de Nihon ni kimashita. Okusan wa raishū Nihon ni kimasu.
Buraun-san no kaisha wa Tōkyō Eki no chikaku ni arimasu. Shigoto wa getsu-yōbi kara kin-yōbi made desu.
Buraun-san wa maiasa kōhi o nomimasu ga, nani mo tabemasen. Soshite shimbun o yomimasu. Chikatetsu de kaisha ni ikimasu. Tokidoki chikaketsu de hon ya zasshi o yomimasu.
Kaisha wa 9-ji kara 5-ji han made desu. Resutoran ya kaisha no shokudō de hiru-gohan o tabemasu. Hiru-yasumi wa 12-ji han kara 2-ji made desu kara, tokidoki kaisha no hito to depāto ya kissaten ni ikimasu.
Uchi ni 7-ji goro kaerimasu. Kinō wa kaisha kara Sumisu-san no uchi ni ikimashita kara, 11-ji goro uchi ni kaerimashita.
Buraun-san wa ashita Shinkansen de Kyōto ni ikimasu. Kyōto no shisha de kaigi o shimasu. Soshite kin-yōbi ni Tōkyō ni kaerimasu.
Mr. Brown is a lawyer with ABC. And he is a friend of Mr. Smith’s. Mr. Brown came to Japan alone this June. His wife will come to Japan next week.
Mr. Brown’s company is near Tokyo Station. He works from Monday to Friday.
Mr. Brown drinks coffee every morning, but doesn’t eat anything. And he reads the paper. He goes to his office by subway. Sometimes he reads a book or a magazine on the subway.
His office hours are from 9:00 to 5:30. He has lunch at a restaurant or in the company cafeteria. Lunch time is from 12:30 to 2:00, so sometimes he goes to a department store or a café with people from the office.
He gets home about 7:00. Last night he got home about 11:00 because he went from the office to the Smiths’ house.
Mr. Brown is going to Kyoto tomorrow on the Shinkansen. He is holding a meeting at the branch office in Kyoto. He will return to Tokyo on Friday.
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ga goro kotoshi amari …-masen itsumo tamani tokidoki yoku zenzen …-masen shokudō kaigi o shimasu |
but (particle) about this year not very often always occasionally sometimes often never cafeteria hold a meeting/conference |