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N5 graded Japanese story

水族館のペンギンの時間

Yui nearly misses the penguin feeding, asks an aquarium worker for directions, and makes room for a smaller child.

20 sentences · about 7 minutes

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N5 · 20 sentences

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On Sunday, Yui visits the aquarium with her father.

Yui especially wants to see the penguin feeding at two o’clock.

They enter the building at one thirty.

Yui looks at colorful fish near the entrance.

She follows a tunnel under a large tank.

The aquarium map is folded in her bag.

At one fifty, she finally checks the clock.

Yui does not know where the penguins are.

She asks an aquarium worker for directions.

The worker points downstairs and to the left.

Yui and her father follow the blue penguin signs.

They arrive two minutes before the feeding.

Many visitors are already standing by the pool.

A small child behind Yui cannot see the penguins.

Yui moves aside and makes room for the child.

The penguins walk out together.

One penguin reaches the water before the others.

The worker explains the penguins’ simple meal.

Yui marks the penguin place on her map.

She remembers both the penguins and the child’s happy face.