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N5 graded Japanese story

ボウリングの十本目

Haru’s First Bowling Game

20 sentences · about 7 minutes

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A repetitive game sequence reinforces numbers, the 本 counter, common action verbs, adjective contrasts, comparisons, and the desire form たい through twenty short sentences.

Key words in context

重いおもい
heavy
軽いかるい
light in weight
みぞ
side channel or bowling gutter
投げるなげる
to throw or roll the ball
たおす
to knock down

What to notice

  1. Sentence bowling-02

    そう describes appearance

    強そう means the ball looks strong; で connects that impression to the factual adjective 重い, heavy.

  2. Sentence bowling-08

    本 counts the pins

    四本 specifies four pins, while 投げて links Haru’s roll to the result, knocking them down.

  3. Sentence bowling-20

    Comparing with his own score

    自分の点より establishes his previous score as the comparison point, and 高くしたい expresses his desire to make the next score higher.

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