ドイツのデパートで日本のお米を試験販売

Welcome to Japanese Daily News. I'm Maya. Today is October sixteenth. Japanese rice is being test-sold at a famous department store in Germany. Let's listen.

Now let's break it down.

In Berlin, the capital of Germany, there is a big department store called KaDeWe.

It means a capital city.

It means a department store.

Since October twelfth, Japanese rice has been sold here as a test.

It means as a trial, to try it out.

They are selling six kinds of rice, including famous brands from Hokkaido and Niigata.

It means a kind or a type.

The rice is divided into small packs, so it is easy to buy.

It means to divide or split.

Added to a verb, it means easy to do.

In the store, people can try eating the rice, and families compared the taste.

It means taste or flavor.

It means to compare.

They also hand out papers that explain how to cook rice.

It means how to cook rice.

It means to hand out.

Japanese food is popular in Germany, but restaurants often use cheap foreign rice.

It means popular, or popularity.

It means a foreign country.

From January to August this year, Japan exported six hundred ninety-nine tons of rice to Germany, fifteen percent more than last year.

It means export.

It means to increase.

A Japanese official said: like wine, we want people to know the taste is different depending on the place.

It means different.

The rice will be sold until October twenty-fourth.

Now listen to the full story again.

Quiz time. Listen and answer.

Six kinds.

Cheap foreign rice.

Fifteen percent.

Until October twenty-fourth.

That's all for this morning. Thanks for listening. See you next time.