1、Ivan住在一个不错的公寓，听他介绍类型并了解他换新公寓的原因吧。Todd: Do you have a good apartment in Japan?Ivan: Uh, I got one now. Yeah. Its a 2DK, 2DK. Todd: Yeah, what does 2DK mean?Ivan: Ah, its smaller than the 2LDK, uh, its got a kitchen and two rooms. Todd: Oh, really.Ivan: Yeah. 2LDK, maybe that its like living room, din
2、ing room, kitchen, all in one. Todd: I dont know. So anyway, whats it like?Ivan: Its better than my old place. I used to live in whats called a gaijin house which is just a shared apartment. I had a 6 mat room, and a shared bathroom. Ah, not I have two 8 mat rooms, and my own bathroom, and a kitchen
3、 with 4 burners, instead of 2, uh, yeah! Todd: Oh, wow, so youre in your new place now?Ivan: Yeah, Im in my new place now. Actually, the old place was owned by a company, they owned the land, and this really, really, awful woman owned the building, so I rented a room from the woman. I woke up one mo
4、rning and the manager was putting stuff in, was putting flyers in peoples mailboxes. I took a look at the flyer. The flyer was saying that the company was going to destroy the building within a month period, so they were warning us to get out. Well, the manager was busy taking these flyers, so that
5、the people inside the apartment wouldnt see it and move out. She wanted to get one more month of rent from us. So I took my flyer and I went down to the company that owned the land and said, Where can I live now? Youre making us leave in a month. He said, Oh, I feel really bad about what you told me happened, so he gave me this 2DK, which is normally 120,000 a month for 60,000 with no key money and no deposit Todd: Wow! Thats nice.Ivan: Yeah, I got lucky.第 1 页
