N5 Japanese Story
The Doctor at the Night Market
夜市のせんせい
0:51 min video · 3 sentences · 6 key words
Transcript with English
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About this lesson
A nervous patient meets his doctor at a night market and says he wants to go home to his mother's town. The doctor smiles quietly, because her own mother is far away too.
How to practise
- Watch once with the English subtitles to understand the story.
- Watch again and repeat every sentence out loud in the 言ってみよう · Your turn pause.
- At the end, read along with the narrator at the same time.
Key words
| Japanese | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| せんせい | doctor, teacher | N5 |
| いなか | hometown, countryside | N5 |
| かえりたいです | want to go back | N5 |
| すこし | a little | N5 |
| わらいました | smiled, laughed | N5 |
| おかあさん | mother | N5 |
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