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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
N5 · 20 sentences
Start reading · 7 min left
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Reinforce the reading
Notice what the story just taught you
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
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.
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.
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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