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| Intermediate Lesson #43 |
| INTRODUCTION |
| Sakura: 中級レッスンでございます。Sakuraです。 |
| Peter: Peter here. Intermediate lesson #43. Sakura san |
| Sakura: はい。 |
| Peter: We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you – you a special むかしばなし |
| Sakura: ありがとうございます。 |
| Peter: Now I heard somewhere that this is your favorite. |
| Sakura: Yes. |
| Peter: What’s the title? |
| Sakura: ないたあかおに |
| Peter: Which translates into? |
| Sakura: Red Monster That Cried. |
| Peter: The Red Monster That Cried. |
| Sakura: Yes! |
| Peter: Is how we are going to translate this. Again this story has been translated many times but we put out a little twist on it. |
| Sakura: あ、そうなの？ |
| Peter: Yeah. Now today, Yoshiaki is back. One of our new voice actors. Sakura san, this will be your new favorite recording of this story, guaranteed! So Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas and every other holiday is for you today especially recorded for you. |
| Sakura: ありがとうございます。 |
| Peter: Okay we will have the translation following the story and as always, at japanesepod101.com, we will have the PDF. Inside the PDF, we will have the kanji ban, the kana ban and the translation plus some vocab. You don’t want to miss this. And Sakura san, this story is really touching. |
| Sakura: Yeah. I just… |
| Peter: Are you crying Sakura san? |
| Sakura: Hmm sorry. |
| Peter: It’s so sad though right? |
| Sakura: ____________00:01:47 |
| Peter: Sakura san is really crying. Okay so that’s how emotional it is. |
| Sakura: Yeah. |
| Peter: Okay that’s it. We are going to the show. Sakura san, stop reading. Here we go. |
| DIALOGUE |
| 泣いた赤鬼 |
| 昔、昔、山を越え、峠を越え、人里離れた山の奥に、赤鬼と青鬼が住んでいました。赤鬼は人間の子供が大好きで、いつもどうやったら友達になれるか考えていました。 |
| 赤鬼「僕はやさしい赤鬼なのにどうしてみんな遊びに来ないのかな。おいしいお菓子と飲み物を用意するのに。」 |
| 青鬼「ねえ、赤鬼君、そんなに子供たちと友達になりたいのかい。」 |
| 赤鬼「うん、友達になりたいよ。」 |
| 青鬼「じゃあ、いい考えがあるんだ。ちょっと耳を貸してごらん。」 |
| 赤鬼「うんん」 |
| 青鬼「そうして」 |
| 赤鬼「うん」 |
| 青鬼「どうだい。」 |
| 赤鬼「うん。うん。」 |
| 青鬼「わかったかい。じゃ、ひと風呂浴びに行こうか。」 |
| 翌日、子供たちが森の中で遊んでいました。 |
| 子供「かくれんぼするものこの指止まれ。お手玉、石蹴り、何でもあるよ。みんなお出でよ。遊ぼうよ。」 |
| 青鬼「ワアー、ワアー、ワアー。うるさいぞ。俺さまが体操する時間だ。あっちへ行け。一、二、三、四、ワアー、ワアー、ワアー、五、六、七、八、ワアー、ワアー、ワアー」 |
| 子供「助けて」 |
| 赤鬼「ワアー、ワアー、ワアー。悪い青鬼。直ぐに体操を止めろ、さもないとこうしてやるぞ。一、二、三、四、エイ、エイ、エイ、五、六、七、八、エイ、エイ、エイ」 |
| 青鬼「ごめん。ごめん。許して。強い赤鬼さん。もう二度としないから許して。」 |
| 赤鬼「安心しなさい。子供たち。悪い青鬼もういない。山に帰っていった。」 |
| 子供「赤鬼さん、ありがとう。悪い青鬼をやっつけた強くてやさしい赤鬼さん。赤鬼さん一緒に遊びましょう。かくれんぼの鬼になってくれる。」 |
| 赤鬼「本当にいいの。」 |
| 子供「いいよ。」 |
| みんな楽しく遊び、一番星が出てきます。 |
| 子供「一番星が出てきました。お家に帰る時間です。おやすみ赤鬼さん。また明日。おやすみ、みんな。また明日。」 |
| 赤鬼「みんな家に帰ってしまったなあ。とっても楽しかったなあ。おやすみ子供たち。また明日。さて、青鬼君はどうしているかな。おや、こんな所に手紙が落ちている」 |
| 手紙「親愛なる赤鬼くんへ。もし君が悪い青鬼の友達とわかったら、子供たちは君から逃げてしまうでしょう。だから僕はもう君には会いません。一人遠くへ行きます。どうか子供たちと仲良く暮らしてください。さようなら。青鬼より。」 |
| 赤鬼「ああ、青鬼くんが行ってしまった。あんないい友達だったのに。行ってしまった。」 |
| 赤鬼くんと青鬼くんは二度と会うことはありませんでした。 |
| The Red Monster That Cried |
| A long, long time ago over the mountain and through the pass deep in the mountains away from the people, there lived a Red Monster and Blue Monster. The Red Monster liked human children and he was always thinking about how to become friends with them. |
| I am such a nice Red monster. I wonder why nobody will come play with me. I even prepared snacks and drinks. |
| Hey Red monster, you want to be friends with the human kids that bad? |
| Yeah I do. |
| Well I have a good idea. Listen to this. |
| Ahh… |
| Then. |
| Yeah. |
| What do you think? |
| Yeah, yeah. |
| Got it. Okay let’s go take a bath. |
| The next day some kids are playing in the forest. If you want to play hide n’ seek, stand there, Juggling Hopscotch, we’ve got it all. Everyone get over here and let’s have some fun. |
| Arr, arr, arr. You loud little brats. This is my exercise time. Go away 1, 2, 3, 4, arr, arr, arr, 5, 6, 7, 8,arr, arr, arr. |
| Help. |
| Umph, umph, umph. you evil Blue monster, stop your exercise soon. Otherwise I will do this 1, 2, 3, 4 ah, ah, ah, 5, 6, 7, 8, ah, ah, ah. |
| I am sorry, forgive me powerful Red monster. I won’t do it again. So please forgive me. |
| Relax kids. The evil Blue monster is gone. He’s gone back into the mountains. |
| Thank you Red monster. The Red monster that is gentle and strong and beat up the evil blue monster, let’s play together. Will you be the monster for Hide n’ Seek. |
| Is it really okay? |
| Yeah everyone is having a good time playing and then the first star appears. The first stars appeared. It’s time to go home. Goodnight Red monster, see you tomorrow. Goodnight everyone. See you tomorrow. |
| Everyone’s gone home. That was really fun. Goodnight kids. See you tomorrow. Okay I wonder what Blue is doing. Hah! What’s a letter doing in a place like this? |
| Dear Red, if the kids found out that you were friends with the evil Blue monster, you’d lose them. That’s why we can never meet again. I will go far away. Please find a way to get along with the kids. Goodbye Blue. |
| Blue’s got away. He was such a good friend and now he’s gone. |
| The Red and Blue monster never saw each other again. |
Outro |
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| Peter: Okay Sakura san, we are back. |
| Sakura: It’s so touching, it’s so touching. |
| Peter: Yeah. |
| Sakura: The Blue monster is too nice. Yeah sorry ちょっとすいません。 |
| Peter: And – Yoshiaki and Take san they really, really brought it to life but anyway stop by japanesepod101.com. That’s going to do for today. |
| Sakura: またね。 |
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