ランチ:lunch loan word 魚[さかな]:fish 味[あじ]:taste, flavor りんご:apple みかん:tangerine 皿[さら]:plate, counter for plates or helpings コーヒー:coffee コップ:cup, glass 二人[ふたり]:two persons 止む[やむ]:stop, cease 九[きゅう]:nine 昼間[ひるま]:daytime...
The Japanese language has borrowed many words from foreign countries, firstly from China as early as the Nara Period (710-794). Gairaigo (外来語) is the Japanese word for "loan word" or "borrowed word." Many Chinese words were mixed into Japanese to the extent that they are no longer c...
The world’s largest daikon ever harvested weighed exactly 69 pounds (31.3 kilograms)—more than three times the size of your average daikon. I blinked at the rubber, life-size model of the record-breaking radish through the display case in the museum—i
You go for something drastic and after it’s way too late, you realize that you’ve made a terrible, terrible mistake. #badhairday 13. YOISHO “A word without meaning, said when flopping into a chair after a hard day at work.” See, what I mean about hard working being crucial to...
“Katsuobushi” is the Japanese word for bonito fish flakes. If you’ve ever eaten takoyaki before, it’s the little flakes on top that sway with the wind. Katsuobushi is one of the key components for dashi and is also frequently used as a topping for a dish right before it’s about ...
For example, thewasei-eigoword for “popsicle” is “ice candy,” which then becomes “アイスキャンデ” in katakana, which sounds like “ai-su-ki-yan-de” when spoken out loud, due to the phonetic limitations of the Japanese alphabet. And good luck expecting an American to know what...
‘Trek’ is a Dutch word for ‘track’ now used mainly by ecotourists and science fiction fans. ‘Learn’ is a Proto-Indo-European word: the verb ‘learn’ originally meant ‘to find a track’ back in the days when ‘learn’ had a noun form which meant ‘the sole of the foot’. ...
The word amateur comes from the French for lover. The dictionary defines it as someone who does something for the love of it, rather than for payment; or someone who's less skilled at something. In the context of gay sex sites, it generally means performers who are not official porn star...
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Five Japanese Dialects to Listen for When You Travel to Japan Languages are like ice cream flavors: you might want to try them all! We learn our native tongue predominantly when we can hardly make rational decisions for ourselves, and we don’t get to choose what it is. Some of us want...