Student: What number do you use to call for an ambulance and the police? (seito: kyuukyuusha to keisatsu wo yobu tameno dennwa banngou ha nannbann desu ka. ) Teacher: You can easily remember these with the following. (sennsei: kono hanashi de kanntann ni oboerare masu. ) Teacher: One day, some football players and baseball players got into a fight. Injured players were put into ambulances. (sennsei: arutoki, sakka- to yakyuu no sennshu ga kennka wo shimashita. keganinn ha kyuukyuusha ni noseraremashita. ) Teacher: Football is played with eleven players in a team and baseball with nine players. Therefore, it became 119. (sennsei: ichi’chi-mu ga, sakka- ha juuichi’ninn, yakyuu ha kyuu’ninn de okonaimasu. sorede hyaku-juukyuu’ban ni narimashita. ) Teacher: The police reported, only 11 football players were injured and zero baseball players, so 11 plus 0 makes 110. (sennsei: keisatsu no shirabe deha, kega’ninn ha sakka- no juuichi’nin dake deshita. yakyuu ha rei’ninn de, juuichi to rei de hyakutoobann (hyakujuu) ni narimashita, ) Manga Explanation： Scene 1. At a Japanese language class. A foreign student asks the Japanese teacher about emergency phone numbers. Scene 2. The teacher explains by using Japan’s most popular sports of football and baseball as a memory aid. This is a trick to make memorization easier. Scene 3. The teacher explains why the ambulance number became 119. Scene 4. The teacher tells the student a made-up story about the phone number for the police.