和歌山・白浜のアドベンチャーワールドがコウテイペンギン19羽の名前を募集　これまで「E005」などの番号で呼ばれていたペンギンに、7月31日まで一般から名前を受付、8月中旬に発表　世界一の繁殖実績を持つ園が絶滅危惧種のペンギンで環境を考える「38℃ MIRACLE Project」

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is July thirteenth. Here's a cute animal story from western Japan. A theme park is asking everyone to help name its emperor penguins. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down, sentence by sentence.

At Adventure World in Wakayama Prefecture, they are inviting people to name the emperor penguins.

It means inviting applications, or asking the public to send something in.

There are nineteen emperor penguins in total.

It means all, or in total.

The emperor penguin is the biggest penguin in the world.

It means the world.

This zoo is very good at raising emperor penguins.

It means good at something, or skilled.

Until now, the penguins had numbers like E005.

It means a number, like an ID number.

So they want everyone to think up names.

It means to think about something, or to come up with an idea.

The new names will be announced in mid-August.

It means an announcement, when something is made public.

This April, the emperor penguin became an endangered species.

It means an endangered species, a kind of animal at risk of dying out.

Let's listen to the whole story one more time.

Time for a short quiz. Listen and try to answer.

There are nineteen emperor penguins.

It is in Shirahama Town, in Wakayama Prefecture.

You can apply until July thirty-first.

That's all for today. A theme park famous for raising emperor penguins is asking everyone to help name its nineteen birds, hoping to make people care more about this newly endangered species. If you had the chance, what name would you pick? Thanks for listening, and see you tomorrow.