Japanese is Posibble Lesson by Evy Mukriani - HTML preview

yasui - inexpensive

Adverbs:

itsumo - always

yukkuri - slowly, leisurely

Interrogatives:

itsu - when

Nouns:

bangohan- supper, dinner

boushi - hat

densha - train

kami - hair (the same as the word for god)

konpyuutaa - computer

koto - thing (abstract)

kumo - cloud

mise - store

mono - thing (concrete)

otoko - man

onna - woman

okaasan - mother

otousan - father

shoujo - young girl

shounen - young boy

tomodachi - friend

tabemono - food

ude - arm

kuchi - mouth

mono - thing

Verbs:

sumu - to reside (don't try using this word yet)

dekiru - to be doable

ko-so-a-do words

In Japanese, things are often quite organized. One example of this is the ko-so-a-do concept. Japanese has a few sets of words with the same or similar endings,

and these four syllables switched in at the beginning. Note this pattern.

kore - this

sore - that

are - that over there

dore - which?

Just as a reminder, remember that for now you should pronounce all the vowels

in Japanese. There is no such thing as a silent 'E' in Japanese. So you would

pronounce 'kore' as KO RAY, but of course with a Japanese R, not an English

one.

Back to the topic, you can see from that set that ko- denotes something within

the grasp of the speaker, so- is for things a small distance from the speaker, a- is

for something far from the speaker, and do- makes interrogative words.