Episode 6 · JLPT N5
Japanese Convenience Store Conversation for Beginners
Understand the five questions a convenience store clerk asks, about your point card, heating your bento, a bag, how you will pay and the receipt, answer them, and catch a price in yen.
Did you catch it?
Listen to the conversation first, with no text, the way the video plays it. Then answer.
Now listen to the whole conversation. Yuki and Kenji stop at the convenience store by the station on their way home from school.
How much does Kenji pay in all?
The conversation
会話Play any line again, or the whole scene. Tap a word to hear only that part. Hide the English to test yourself.
- Poko
Welcome!
- Kenji
These, please.
- Poko
Sure! Do you have a point card?
- Kenji
Oh, no…
- Poko
Would you like a bag?
- Kenji
Oh, I'm fine, thanks.
- Poko
Shall I heat up the bento?
- Kenji
Oh, yes, please.
- Yuki
Hey, what's this?
- Kenji
…No idea. Um, excuse me. What's this?
- Poko
Oh, this? It's a sakura bean bun!
- Kenji
Sakura… bean bun. How much is it?
- Poko
It's 150 yen.
- Kenji
Then two of these too, please.
- Yuki
Huh, two?
- Poko
Sure, two sakura bean buns. That's 800 yen in all!
- Kenji
…Huh? Sorry, one more time, please.
- Poko
Sure. Eight hundred yen.
- Kenji
800 yen…
- Poko
How would you like to pay?
- Kenji
Oh, cash.
- Poko
Out of a thousand yen.
- Poko
Here's 200 yen change. Do you need the receipt?
- Kenji
No, thanks.
- Poko
Thank you very much!
- Kenji
Here, this one's for you.
- Yuki
Huh, for me? …Thanks!
Words in this scene
単語Key vocabulary introduced in this conversation. Tap any item to view its dictionary or grammar page.
- だいじょうぶですNo, thank you
- いえNo
- はい、おねがいしますYes, please
- げんきんでIn cash
The lesson
What the video teaches, to read at your own pace.
What the clerk asks first
- ポイントカードは お持ちですか
- Do you have a point card?
- 袋は ご利用ですか
- Would you like a bag?
- お弁当、温めますか
- Shall I heat the bento?
The clerk asks a few questions while he rings up your things. Each one starts with the thing it is about, so you listen for the first word. ポイントカードは お持ちですか asks whether you have a point card. 袋は ご利用ですか asks whether you want a bag. お弁当、温めますか asks whether you want your bento heated. Shop staff use these polite words with customers, and you only need to understand them.
After the price
- お支払いは
- How will you pay?
- レシートは よろしいですか
- Do you need the receipt?
After he says the price, the clerk asks two more things. お支払いは asks how you will pay, and it starts with the thing it is about, the paying. When he gives you your change, レシートは よろしいですか asks whether you need the receipt.
Your answers
- 大丈夫です
- No, thank youthe words say: I'm fine
- いえ
- Noa short, soft いいえ
- はい、お願いします
- Yes, pleasewhen you do want it
- 現金で
- In cashhow you will pay
So how do you answer the clerk? You can answer most of his questions with 大丈夫です. It means I'm fine, and at the register it means no, thank you. For the point card, Kenji says いえ, which is a short and soft いいえ. When you do want something, like the bento heated, you say はい、お願いします. And when the clerk asks how you will pay, 現金で means in cash.