Let's do a quick review and cover asking and giving directions as well as practice asking questions in the past tense.

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Learn Spanish Review: Asking for directions and questions about the past (elementary A2)

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《「この味がいいね」と君が言ったから七月六日はサラダ記念日》
みなさんはこの短歌を知っていますか？短歌とは31の音で作られる詩のことです。
これは歌人の俵万智（たわらまち）さんという方が35年前に作ったものです。
なんでもない１日が、誰かのひとことで記念日になる、というのはすてきですね。
ちなみにFacebookで”like”ボタンを押すことを日本では「いいね」すると言います。
みなさんは最近、記念日にできる一日がありましたか？
よかったら私のレッスンに来て教えてください。


君：きみ　you
七月六日:しちがつむいか　
記念日：きねんび　anniversary
短歌：たんか　one form of classical Japanese poetry, or waka
音：おと　sound, syllables
詩：poem
歌人：かじん poet
なんでもない：ordinary
出来事：できごと happening, occurence


Nihongo Short Story by Noriko

今日は何の日？(What is today?)

다음을 듣고 질문에 대한 맞는 답을 고르십시오.

🎧 [문제 1]

남자: 요즘 회사 일이 많지요?
여자: 네, 하지만 일이 많을수록 배우는 것도 많아요.
남자: 그래도 너무 무리하지는 마세요.
여자: 네, 주말에는 꼭 쉬려고 해요.

🎧 [문제 2]

여자: 어제 발표 잘했어요?
남자: 긴장해서 말을 좀 더듬었어요.
여자: 그래도 준비를 열심히 했으니까 괜찮을 거예요.
남자: 네, 다음에는 더 자연스럽게 말할 수 있을 것 같아요.

🎧 [문제 3]

남자: 회의 시간이 2시였죠?
여자: 네, 그런데 부장님께서 갑자기 외근을 하셔서 3시로 바뀌었어요.
남자: 아, 다행이네요. 아직 보고서를 다 못 썼거든요.

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A bluefin tuna was sold for 36.04 million yen -- around $273,000 -- at the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market.

The price of the 212-kilogram fish was more than double that of the most expensive fish at last year's New Year's auction: a 211-kilogram fish that sold for 16.88 million yen -- at that time worth $145,000.

Both fish were caught off the coast of the town of Oma in Aomori prefecture.

This year's auction began at 5:10 a.m. on January 5, and around 230 tuna were sold in just 15 minutes.

Seafood wholesaler Yamayuki bought this year's most expensive fish for the sushi restaurant Ginza Onodera. The tuna was served to the restaurant's customers later that same day.

This is the third year in a row that Yamayuki has bought the most expensive tuna. However, prices had fallen in recent years as the restaurant industry suffered during the coronavirus pandemic.

Yamayuki's president Yukitaka Yamaguchi told The Yomiuri Shimbun that the increased price this year "is good news that symbolizes the gradual recovery from the pandemic."

This year's top price was the sixth highest since records began being kept in 1999.

The highest price recorded was at the New Year's auction in 2019 -- just after Tokyo's fish market moved from Tsukiji to Toyosu. At that auction, a 278-kilogram fish was sold for 333.6 million yen -- at that time $3 million -- to Kiyomura Corp., whose owner, Kiyoshi Kimura, runs the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain.

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Tuna Sells for ¥36 Million at Tokyo New Year Auction

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