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１１.黒豆茶(くろまめちゃ)２ (Black bean tea at a shop in Kyoto, part 2)

[Context] After purchasing black beans for tea, トモちゃん and the video shooter keep chatting with the sales lady of the store in Kyoto that sells local specialties of Tanba area (located in the middle of Kyoto prefecture).


Vocabulary
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    • 梅干(うめぼ)し pickled plum, pickled Japanese apricot
      干(ほ)し梅干し dried pickled plum
      牡蠣(かき) oyster
      サザエ turban shell, top shell
      いちじく fig
      来(き)はった (Kansai honorific – refer to Ch4.L4.G1)
      干(ほ)しみかん dried mandarin orange
      携帯(けいたい) cell phone
      瓶詰(びんづ)め bottled
      煮(に)る boil, cook, simmer
      黒豆煮(くろまめに) boiled black beans
      脳(のう) brain
      活性化(かっせいか)する activate, vitalize
      肌(はだ)skin
      つやつや smooth and shiny
      荒(あ)れる get rough
      便秘(べんぴ) constipation
      正常化(せいじょうか) normalize
      スマート slender, slim

内容質問(ないようしつもん)(Content Questions)

Q1: Why did the sales lady want to know how to say 梅干(うめぼ)し in English?
  • A number of foreigners ask what 梅干し is, so she wants to make sure.
  • Not many foreigners like 梅干し, so she wants to convince them to buy it.
  • She knows its English equivalent, but she wanted to test the video shooter’s knowledge.
    • Q2: What do foreigners usually buy, according to the sales lady?
  • Various kinds, including dried fig.
  • Various kinds, except for dried fig.
  • Dried fig only.
    • Q3: The video shooter said 今言うてたら来はった. Who came?
  • Other Japanese customers.
  • The store owner.
  • Foreigners.
    • Q4: Why did トモちゃん do to find out the English equivalent of いちじく？
  • She searched it online using her cell phone.
  • She text-messaged somebody to ask what it is.
  • She checked it using the dictionary software on her cell phone.
    • Q5: How did the sales lady find out the English equivalent of 黒豆煮(くろまめに)?
  • She asked a foreign customer.
  • トモちゃん looked it up for her using a cell phone.
  • She looked it up in the dictionary.
    • Q6: How old is the sales lady?
  • Almost 60.
  • Almost 80.
  • Almost 70.
    • Q7: What kind of benefit did the sales lady most appreciate by drinking black bean tea?
  • Her skin has rejuvenated.
  • She isn’t constipated anymore.
  • Her brain got vitalized.
    • Q8: The sales lady mentioned some positive effect of black bean tea on weight control, and also pointed out that トモちゃん is slender. What was トモちゃん’s comment?
  • My skirt makes me look slender!
  • I love being slender because I can enjoy wearing this skirt!
  • The part hidden under my skirt is not slender at all!
  • The part hidden under my skirt is the only slender part!
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    くろまめちゃうめぼほかききほけいたいびんづにくろまめにのうかっせいかはだあべんぴせいじょうかないようしつもんうめぼくろまめに