Italian–English parallel text
Polpette di riso per Ken
Rice Balls for Ken
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A bilingual Italian–English edition: the Italian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Yuki ha sette anni. Abita con mamma, papà e la nonna a Osaka. Osaka è una grande città in Giappone.
Yuki is seven years old. She lives with Mum, Dad and Grandma in Osaka. Osaka is a big city in Japan.
Domani la classe di Yuki fa una gita nel parco. Tutti i bambini portano del cibo. La mamma prepara sempre il cibo per Yuki. Ma domani Yuki vuole fare il suo cibo da sola.
Tomorrow Yuki’s class goes on a trip to the park. All the children bring some food. Mum always makes the food for Yuki. But tomorrow Yuki wants to make her food herself.
«Faccio le polpette di riso», dice Yuki. La mamma ride. «Bene. Ti aiuto.» «No!», grida Yuki. «Faccio tutto da sola!»
“I’m making rice balls,” says Yuki. Mum laughs. “Good. I’ll help you.” “No!” shouts Yuki. “I do everything by myself!”
Yuki cuoce il riso. È caldo e morbido. Prende il riso nelle mani. Ahi! È troppo caldo. Aspetta. Poi lo preme e fa una palla.
Yuki cooks the rice. It is hot and soft. She takes the rice in her hands. Ouch! It is too hot. She waits. Then she presses it into a ball.
La palla si rompe. Il riso si attacca alle mani, al tavolo e al naso. Yuki fa un’altra palla. Si rompe anche questa. E un’altra ancora. Rotta!
The ball falls apart. The rice sticks to her hands, to the table and to her nose. Yuki makes another ball. It falls apart, too. And another one. Apart!
Yuki è triste. «Non sono capace», dice. La mamma non dice niente. Sorride solo ed esce dalla cucina.
Yuki is sad. “I can’t do this,” she says. Mum says nothing. She only smiles and goes out of the kitchen.
La nonna entra in cucina. Vede il riso dappertutto. «Hmm», dice. Yuki guarda la nonna. «Nonna, per favore, mostrami il trucco. Ma lo faccio da sola.» La nonna ride. «Va bene.»
Grandma comes into the kitchen. She sees rice everywhere. “Hmm,” she says. Yuki looks at Grandma. “Grandma, please show me the trick. But I do it myself.” Grandma laughs. “That is good.”
«Mani bagnate», dice la nonna. «Un po’ di sale. E non premere troppo forte. Morbido! Il riso è come un bambino piccolo.» Yuki si bagna le mani. Prende un po’ di sale. Preme morbido.
“Wet hands,” says Grandma. “A little salt. And don’t press too hard. Softly! The rice is like a baby.” Yuki wets her hands. She takes a little salt. She presses softly.
La palla resiste! Yuki fa tre polpette di riso. In ogni palla c’è un pezzo di pesce. Le palle non sono belle. Una è quadrata, una è piatta, una è un po’ storta. Ma resistono.
The ball holds! Yuki makes three rice balls. In every ball there is a piece of fish. The balls are not pretty. One is square, one is flat, one is a little bent. But they hold.
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