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Japanese: every Day

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Alphabet

Hiragana e Katakana Hiragana “A”, Katakana “A” あア, “E” えエ Hiragana “i”, Katakana “i” いイ, “O”おオ Hiragana “U”,

U” う, 宇,“Ka”: か, カ

Ki: キ, き, きい,キイ,きー, キー Kya: キャ, きゃ Kyaa きゃあ, きゃー,キャア,キャー Kyu きゅ,キュ, Kyuu きゅう, きゅー, キュウ, キュー Kyoきょ, キョ, Kyoo きょう, きょお, きょー, キョウ, キョオ, キョー Ke け, ケ, Kei: けい, けぃ, ケイ, ケィ, Kee: けえ, けぇ, ケエ, ケェ Kee (long e): けー, ケー Ku: く, ク, Ko: こ, コ Sa - さ (hiragana) , サ (katakana).

Shi - し, シ both from the kanji 之 Su - す,ス せ, セ - se, both derive from the kanji 世 spelled se, sei, yo,toshi, yu or Yuki that means world, society, generation, age, lifespan, season, relationship between and and a woman, another funny example is in

ルパン三世 rupen san sei Lupin the Third a very famous cartoon. https://movie-tsutaya.tsite.jp/ netdvd/dvd/goodsDetail.do? titleID=1701135538

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Daily Expression Today I would like to introduce you some expression that can be useful in daily life when you live in Japan or you are invited at home by some Japanese friends ただいま - tadaima I am home. This is the expression all people says when they arrive at home おかえりなさい -okaeri nasai - Welcome back. Who is at home reply with this sentence. Normally your mother or your spouse will come to door to welcome you よくいらっしゃいました - Yoku irasshaimashita -thank you for coming. This expression is used when you welcome a guest in your house お上がり ください - oagari kudasai - please come in. You are inviting inside someone お邪魔します - ojama shimasu - this is the expression used by the guest entering at friend’s or other people home. It means something like” Excuse me for disturbing”

Pattern (not changed from last lesson) Today pattern is [noun]の隣 [noun] no tonari that means “next to [noun]”. Let’s seen an example The restaurant is next to that metro station レストランはその地下鉄駅の隣にあります (Resutoran wa sono chikatetsu-eki no tonari ni arimasu We can extend this pattern adding some additional location place that respect the same pattern: 近く - chikaku adverb meaning near / nearby My car is near the gas station - 私の⾞はガソリンスタンドの 近くにある Watashi no kuruma wa gasorinsutando no chikaku desu 3

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前 - mae that means before or in front of The pharmacy is in front of the bank - 薬局は銀⾏の前にあり ます - Yakkyoku wa ginkoo no Mae ni arimasu. 中 - naka that means in, inside the pen is inside the book - ペンは本の中にあります - pen wa hon no nana ni arimasu

We have some nice and useful words: 銀⾏ - gink00 - meaning money business it is the word for bank 薬局 - yakkyoku - pharmacy it is made up 2 different kanji 薬 - jaku, kusuri, mi that indicate a substance with mystical or pharmaceutical properties. Today we can use this word to indicate something toxic or something to improve our health.

For example the gun powder that twas supposed to have mystical power is called ⽕薬 kayak - fire mystical power ⾞ - has different procunciations including Kuruma, sha しゃ, kyo きょ and it means car, originally was generic vehicle or wheel . レストラン - resutoran - restaurant 地下鉄駅 - chikatetsu-eki metro/subway station にあります - ni arimasu - it is in その - sono - that

Translation In order to proceed with organic translation I have taken the following free ebook and step by step we shall translate together http://www.loyalbooks.com/download/text/Book-34084.txt

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Title: 法螺男爵旅⼟産 - Horadanshaku tabimiyage - Boast

Baron Travel Souvenirs

法螺《ほら》男爵《だんしやく》旅《たび》⼟產《みや げ》Boast Baron Travel Souvenir, that is with hiragana pronunciation 佐々⽊邦譯 - Sasaki Kuni 暴⾵《ばうふう》と胡⽠《きうり》の樹《き》の話《はな し》- A story about a windstorm and cucumber tree. 拙⽣《せつせい》の髯《ひげ》が丁年《ていねん》到逹《た うたつ》の宣⾔《せんげん》をする以前《まへ》 - Before my beard arrivals declaring the adulthood もつと碎《くだ》いて申《まを》せば、最早《もはや》⼦ 供《こども》でもなく If you have it, you are no longer a child さりとて未《いま》だ⼤⼈《おとな》でもない頃《ころ》 However you are not yet an adult 拙⽣《せつせい》は世界《せかい》觀光《くわんくわう》 の渇望《かつばう》を⼜癖《くちくせ》のやうに洩《も》 らしてゐた Setsusei had shown the desire to see the world as main phrase/ habit

Vocabulary: ゐ - wi, this is an historical hiragana now almost disappeared, currently we should use the hiragana for “i” 洩 - mo means to leak ⼜癖 - kuchiguse spelled kuchikuse means pet saying, favorite phrase (favorite), stock phrase, manner of talking. It can be also written in the following ways: ⼜ぐせ 【くちぐせ】 5

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渇望 - katsuboo but spelled with the historical hiragana katsubau it means, earnest desire, thirst 觀 has been simplified in 観 so the word is 観光, the 観 means look, view, sight, appearance, see, observe, to view. Current spelling is kankoo and it means tourism or sight seeing, but the spelling in the book is くわんくわう - kuwankuwau that is an historical pronunciation and means sightsee. 世界 - Sekai that means world さりとて - written also as 然りとて: having say that , but, however 未 だ - imada - not yet, more, besides, unfinished yet, only, still.

This can be read as well as mada or hitsujida ⼤⼈ - otona - adult, grown up でもない - it is not (like that); used to explicitly deny one thing while also implicitly denying other things. We can find also the expression written でも無い using the kanji 頃 - koro - time, about, toward ⼦供《こども》 - Kokomo - child 最早 - もはやmahaya - now 申 - normally indicate the 9th sign of Chinese zodiac (monkey) and it is used in expression like 申し難い - I am sorry to trouble you. Here the pronunciation is まを- mao. 碎 - break, smash, broken, busted, it is now simplified as 砕 , reading in this case is だ - da と - to - and, with, if もつ - motsu - to have も - mo - it means also, more, even, other 拙⽣ - sessei - reborn 髯 - hige - mustache; beards; whiskers 6

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丁年 - teinen - age 20, adulthood 到逹 - tautatsu - arrival 宣⾔ - sengen - declaration 以前 - mae - before 暴⾵ - windstorm と - to: and 胡⽠ -kyuuri- Cucumber の - no: of 樹 - ki, we can translate as tree, wood, shrub, lumber 話 - hanashi - tale, story, talking, speech, conversation, lecture, rumor

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