I'm having trouble trying to understand a fragment from a dialogue between two
students in the book "An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese".

I do know that 今度 means "now", "next time", or "another time", and 一度 means
"once". But in the conversation between the two students they use 今度一度:

> 加藤: でも上手じゃありませんよ。
>
> トム: **今度一度** やりましょうか。

How should I understand 今度一度 in the previous fragment of the dialogue?
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Problem understanding 今度一度
First, 「[今度]{こんど}」 can be used to refer to an event occuring in all of the
three time frames below:

> The recent past
>
> The present
>
> The near future

Though I have no idea what bilingual dictionaries say about this, you could
verify this with any medium-size monolingual Japanese dictionary. Which one of
the three the word 「今度」 refers to will entirely depend on the context.

When the World Cup ended the other day, I said to a few people,
「今度のワールドカップはなんかつまんなかったね。」 = "The World Cup this time was kinda boring, wasn't
it?" (I said it because Japan got eliminated very quickly.)

> In the phrase 「[今度一度]{こんどいちど}」, 「今度」 can only mean one thing out of the
> three mentioned above. That is "in the near future". It does not
> specifically have to be "the very next time" [加藤]{かとう} and トム meet. It just
> means "one of the next few (but not many) times we are meeting in the near
> future."

「一度」 does not have to be translated as "once" everytime you see it. In the
phrase 「今度一度」, 「一度」 just means "sometime".

> 「今度一度」, therefore, means "sometime soon", "sometime in the near future", or
> even just "next time".
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As you understand, in this case, "今度" means "next time" or "another time". And
"一度" means "once".

The problem is relationship between word.

"once" is related to after part.

"一度やりましょうか" means "Let's try one time". Then add "今度"(next time). "Let's play
one time, in next time.".

Ex. (Tom: Mr.Kato, do you play tennis?)  
(Kato: I play tennis before.)  
加藤: でも上手じゃありませんよ。  
-> Kato: But, I'm not good player.  
トム: 今度一度やりましょうか。  
-> Tom: Let's play one game, next time.
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