Haru buys lunch and tea at the convenience store
Practice A1 Japanese in a short story where Haru buys lunch and tea at the convenience store. Tap individual words, follow line-by-line meaning, and review vocabulary from the scene.
- Vocabulary
- Story
- Support
- Grammar
- Practice
- Review
Start with the short scene first. Tap individual words when you want the vocabulary, then use the line-by-line support to confirm the full sentence before you reread it.
Core vocabulary
bag
noun
tea
noun
five hundred yen
number
okay
expression
heat / warm up
expression
water
noun
rice ball
noun
customer
noun
staff member
noun
boxed lunch
noun
Core text
Line-by-line support
Read each line with the direct translation beside it. Use this section to slow down and confirm exactly what each speaker says.
Welcome. Would you like this heated?
Yes, please. Also, tea, please.
Certainly. Do you need a bag?
No, I am okay.
That is five hundred yen.
Grammar in context
These are the two patterns doing the most work in this lesson. Learn them as reusable sentence frames, not as isolated rules.
ください
ください is the key request word for asking for an item in a clear beginner sentence.
は ... か
Japanese often frames topic-based questions with は and ends them with か.
Extension reading
Review
Story check: What is Haru trying to do in this lesson, and what detail changes the situation?
Vocabulary check: Find the first key word, the second key word, the third key word, and one more key word in the story text again. Explain what each word is doing in its sentence.
Retell: Retell the scene in two or three sentences using the first key word and the second key word. Then add one sentence about why the ending matters for Haru.