Notes:
yearn for: 恋い慕う, 恋しがる
lamb: 子羊の肉，ラム
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When you live in a foreign country, you sometimes miss the food from your own country. If you think about that food a lot and really want it, then you “yearn for” it. Recently, a large American store opened near the airport, and my wife went there yesterday. She found something I was yearning for: mutton. I used to eat lamb and mutton in the U.S., but it’s difficult to find this meat in Japan. She also found blueberry muffins. I love them, too. If you move to a foreign country, what Japanese food will you yearn for? Umeboshi? Natto? (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
nephew: おい;
quite a : すごい、相当な;
be supposed to: するはずだ;
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This story is from a students’ aunt. She wrote:
My nephew went abroad to study English in Canada. He stayed with a Canadian family. His host parents were supposed to take care of his breakfast and dinner at first, but that didn’t happen. They worked all day, so he had to make his meals himself. He had never cooked in his life. He asked his mother how to cook using Skype. When he came back to Japan, he had grown up. Now he speaks English very well, and he’s become quite a cook. Things have turned out well. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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