ブラッシュアップライフ
Covers all 10 episodes and 157 conversation scenes of ブラッシュアップライフ. Every scene has the original audio, a line-by-line Japanese script with furigana, an English translation, speaking notes, and key vocabulary. You can tap any line to hear just that line, or listen first and read afterward. Suited to learners who want to practice spoken Japanese: counter and workplace keigo, and casual talk between friends.
What you will learn
- Counter and workplace keigo: city hall counters, receptionists, pharmacies, and TV stations put patterns like 「〜ていただく」 and 「ご案内いたします」 into real moments of refusing, calming someone down, and making requests.
- Casual talk between friends of the same age: chats among childhood friends and classmates are full of contractions, sentence-ending particles (「〜っつって」, 「〜じゃん」, 「〜もん」), and young people's expressions.
- Giving/receiving verbs and the speaker's stance: 「〜てもらう」, 「〜てくれる」, and 「〜てあげる」 are contrasted again and again across different scenes.
- Industry jargon: TV production sets (「メシ押し」, 「番手」, 「トメ」), pharmacies, and flight schools each have their own vocabulary.
- The same line coming back: the same expressions return in later episodes, so by the second hearing they already sound familiar.
Episodes
- Episode 114 scenes
「〜ていただくしか（ない）」(the politest way to refuse firmly) 「少々お待ちください」(please wait a moment, in counter register) 「ご案内いたします」(humble "I will guide you")
- Episode 212 scenes
「〜っけ」(checking something you once knew) 「〜んだけど」(trailing off to hand over the floor) 「〜じゃないですか」(pulling the listener to your side)
- Episode 313 scenes
「〜じゃん？」(a casual tag asking for agreement, "right?") 「〜なくない？」(a double-negative rhetorical question, "isn't it...?") 「〜ておりました」(the formal-humble form of 〜ていました)
- Episode 414 scenes
「〜としたら」("if it were the case that...", flagging a pure hypothetical) 「仮に〜としても」("even supposing that...", conceding a point before rebutting) 「〜たいのはやまやま」("I'd love to, but...", the setup for a refusal)
- Episode 515 scenes
「〜づらい」(hard to do because of hesitation or awkwardness) 「一応」(technically; in form at least) 「〜ふうに」(in the manner of; putting on an air of)
- Episode 615 scenes
「しがらみ」(ties of obligation you cannot shake off) 「忖度」(anticipating a superior's wishes and acting on them unasked) 「〜とは〜のこと」("X means Y", the definition pattern)
- Episode 717 scenes
「くれる／あげる／もらう」(giving and receiving verbs compared) 「〜とは思えない」(can't bring myself to think it is...) 「立ち話もなんなんで」(a set phrase for moving a conversation elsewhere)
- Episode 819 scenes
「鎌をかける」(to fish for information by baiting someone) 「盛れてる」(looking better in a photo than in real life) 「何がムカつくって」(a construction that sets up the point before stating it)
- Episode 918 scenes
「気を使う」(to go out of one's way for someone; the key word of the episode) 「根回し」(informal groundwork before a formal decision) 「閉店セール理論」(the closing-down sale theory: "last time" makes things precious)
- Episode 1020 scenes
「〜ようにはしとくんで」("I'll see to it, at least that much"; the は marks the limit) 「これが私の立場でできる限界です」("this is the limit of what my position allows") 「〜なくて済む」(to get by without having to...)