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Post by moderator on Jun 28, 2015 21:29:11 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for June 28, 2015 is...
City - 都市 - とし
Romanization: toshi (toh-shee)
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Post by moderator on Jun 30, 2015 3:48:24 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for June 29, 2015 is...
Town - 町 - まち
Romanization: machi (mah-chee)
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Post by moderator on Jul 19, 2015 11:58:53 GMT
Yeah, I've been away way too long.
The Japanese word of the day for July 19, 2015 is...
Village - 村 - むら
Romanization: mura (moo-rah)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2015 15:15:44 GMT
Mora gu?  |
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Post by moderator on Jul 19, 2015 22:56:00 GMT
I don't get it.  |
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Post by moderator on Jul 20, 2015 23:22:04 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for July 20, 2015 is...
Woods - 林 - はやし
Romanization: hayashi (hah-yah-shee)
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Post by moderator on Jul 23, 2015 22:42:05 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for July 23, 2015 is...
Forest - 森 - もり
Romanization: mori (moh-ree)
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Post by dash on Jul 23, 2015 23:51:01 GMT
Is the word for forest a little more formal than the one for woods, as in English? (Or that's my impression, anyway.) Or would there be some other shade of difference between the two?
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Post by moderator on Jul 24, 2015 20:29:37 GMT
The difference between mori and hayashi is that mori is bigger/thicker than hayashi.  |
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Post by moderator on Jul 28, 2015 19:46:50 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for July 28, 2015 is...
Grass - 草 - くさ
Romanization: kusa (koo-sah)
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Post by moderator on Jul 29, 2015 20:22:55 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for July 29, 2015 is...
Lawn - 芝生 - しばふ
Romanization: shibafu (shee-bah-foo)
When making the foo sound, form it as if you were blowing out a candle, not with your teeth.
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Post by dash on Jul 31, 2015 2:32:00 GMT
Do they have the f sound with the teeth at all in Japanese? I think it's interesting how common sounds in one language are totally absent sometimes in others.
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Post by moderator on Jul 31, 2015 23:30:01 GMT
No, they don't. The "fu" syllable in Japanese is part of the "h-" group of syllables - ha, hi, he, ho, ha. But the way its sound is produced - like blowing out a candle - makes it sound more like "fu" than "hu".
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Post by moderator on Jul 31, 2015 23:37:19 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for July 31, 2015 is...
Dirt - 土 - つち
Romanization: tsuchi (tsoo-chee)
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Post by moderator on Aug 2, 2015 21:23:43 GMT
The Japanese word of the day for August 2, 2015 is...
Sand - 砂 - すな
Romanization: suna (soo-nah)
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