Daily Japanese Story (≤ JLPT N5)





Featured Kanji
(はなす・ワ)
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Vocabulary

  • — department store
  • — tea
  • — Sunday
  • — afternoon
  • — I; me
  • — fifth floor
  • — restaurant
  • — to enter
  • — friend
  • — what
  • — to drink
  • — to understand; to know
  • — hot (temperature)
  • — cold (temperature)
  • — one each
  • — to order
  • — to come
  • — liked; favorite
  • — to say
  • — today
  • — hot (weather)
  • — shop; store
  • — person
  • — excuse me; sorry
  • — to change; to exchange
  • — please (request)
  • — to request; to ask a favor
  • — two people

Grammar / Notes

  • Reason with / + : use to give a reason (“because…”). Example: It was hot today, so I also wanted cold tea.)
  • Comparison with : AB = “B more than A”. Example: I like cold tea more than hot tea.)

English

Tea at the Department Store

On Sunday afternoon, I entered a restaurant on the fifth floor of a department store.
I didn’t know what kind of tea my friend wanted to drink, so I ordered one hot tea and one cold tea.
My friend arrived and said, “I like cold tea more than hot tea.”
It was hot today, so I also wanted cold tea.
So I said to the staff, “Excuse me, please change the hot tea to cold tea,” and we both drank cold tea together.