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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 9th 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]

 

 
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