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Japanese Market Reading: Finding a Stall and Meeting a Friend
Use location words and existence verbs to navigate a fictional market. Distinguish a person’s meeting place from the location of food stalls and facilities.
An original fictional learning text by LavaJapanese. Places, prices and rules in the passage are invented for practice.
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の案内
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のにの店があります。
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の店のにパンの店があります。
- 4
トイレはのにあります。
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友達のユキさんは、ので待っています。
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今日はの店はありません。
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Location phrases stack with の: 入口の右 and 花の店の隣 each define a place relative to a landmark. Use the stated relationship rather than assuming that every stall is beside the entrance. The notice gives no complete left-to-right map.
あります and ありません describe the stalls and facilities. Yuki’s sentence instead describes an activity, 待っています, with location で. The fish stall is absent today; that does not mean the whole market is closed.
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1. What is to the right of the entrance?
花の店
入口の右に花の店があります identifies the flower stall. Evidence: 入口の右に花の店があります。
2. What is next to the flower stall?
パンの店
花の店の隣に locates the bread stall. Evidence: 花の店の隣にパンの店があります。
3. Where is Yuki waiting?
入口の左
Yuki waits on the left, unlike the flower stall on the right. Evidence: 友達のユキさんは、入口の左で待っています。
4. Copy the location word saying the toilets are at the back.
奥
奥 names the inner or back part of the market. Evidence: トイレは市場の奥にあります。
5. Copy the polite negative verb saying there is no fish stall.
ありません
ありません is the negative existence verb for a stall. Evidence: 今日は魚の店はありません。
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