Everyday scenes in Japan, from introductions to a visit to the bank. In each one you say your role’s lines out loud.
さそい
Mori is leaving at the end of the month, and you are organising the farewell. You have already asked everyone else which days suit them and picked the last Friday of the month. Mori hasn’t been told a word — it is meant to be a surprise. All that is left is to invite the one who has lunch with Mori every day — and who knows something about Mori’s last days that you don’t.
森さんの送別会を、最後の金曜日にするんですが、一緒にどうですか。
mediumabout 3 min
おねがい
Next year you’re going to study in Canada for a year on a scholarship, and the application needs a letter of recommendation from a language teacher. You’ve been taking the same English class for two years — but the teacher knows you only from class, nothing more. It’s a weekday, and you stop by the office to ask.
先生、留学のことで、書いていただきたい書類があるんですが。
mediumabout 2 min
ざつだん
Evening, the street in front of the house. You moved in a month ago, and every evening you hear a noise from the direction of the shrine — and long ago settled it in your own mind as something going on at the school. Someone who has lived on this street for years is standing by their door and speaks first: doesn’t the evening noise bother you? It turns out to be the children rehearsing — there’s a festival at the end of the month, and they rehearse every evening all month long. Where you lived before, a festival was something you went to watch, and who put it on you never knew.
こんばんは。先月越してきたかたですよね。夜の音、うるさくないですか。
mediumabout 3 min