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Exercise 9: Compliments/Responses to Compliments



Situation 2: Dialogue 2

学生:あ、失礼します。  A, shitsurei shimasu.  ‘Excuse me.’

先生:どうぞ。  Douzo.  ‘Come in.’

学生:先生、この間借りた本、お返ししに来ました。  Sensei kono aida karita hon, okaeshi shini kimashita.  ‘Sensei, I’ve come to return the book I borrowed the other day.’

先生:あ、そう、どうだった?  A, sou, dou data?  ‘Oh, is that right?  How was it?’

学生:とても面白くてためになりました。ありがとうございました。  Totemo omoshirokute tameni narimashita.  ‘It was really interesting and instructive.  Thank you very much.’

先生:あ、ほんとに。よかったね、それは。  A, hontoni.  Yokattane, sorewa.  ‘Oh, really.  That’s good.’

 
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