Exercise 5: Compliments/Responses to Compliments

Sample Dialogue 3

お客さん：お嬢さん、前に会った時よりだいぶ大きくなりましたね。  Ojousan, maeni atta tokiyori daibu ookiku narimashitane.  ‘Your daughter has grown a lot since I saw her last.’

ホスト（主人）：今年で中三なんですよ。  Kotoshide chuusan nandesuyo.  ‘She is in her 9^th grade this  year.’

お客さん：お母さんに似てきれいになって。  Okaasanni nite kireini natte.  ‘She looks like her mom and so beautiful.’

ホスト（主人）：いや、僕に似ればもうちょっとはましだったのに。  Iya, bokuni nireba mou chotto mashi dattanoni.  ‘Well, if she looked more like me, she would be a bit better.’  [refusing a compliments in jest]