A Japanese Guest

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• and stuff
• host family
• took
• tons

• brush up on
• 60/40
• we'll see
• come by

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

Recently, Zach had a special guest visitor from Japan. Sayaka was one of Zach’s students in Tokyo. She studied for a year in Los Angeles. She came to visit Portland for three days and then went to California to visit her old host family.
Listen to John and Zach discuss her visit.

Dialog

1. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

John

Zach

John:  That Sayaka girl was pretty cool.

Zach:  Yeah, she was. We had a good time.

John:  What’d you guys do?

Zach:  Well, I took her around. We went to Multnomah Falls, and we drove around the city, checked out a couple restaurants and stuff. But, uh, her biggest thing was Starbucks.

John:  Oh yeah? They have Starbucks over there don’t they?

Zach:  Oh yeah. They have tons of ‘em and she was totally excited to go.

John:  Her English was pretty good too. That must have been cool.

Zach:  Yeah it was. We talked a lot. And actually it was cool because I got to brush up on my Japanese a little bit too.

John:  So what would you say? How much Japanese and how much English?

Zach:  About 60/40.

John:  Oh cool. I’m jealous. I should have hung out with you guys a little bit more.

Zach:  Yeah, it was good practice.

John:  So, is she coming back anytime soon?

Zach:  Well, she wants to come study at an American University. So, we’ll see.

John:  Well, tell her she can come by and visit anytime again.

 

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