Wednesday, March 18

Japanese Word of the Day

The Japanese love words. Every year they invent new words and phrases that relate to the latest fashions and a panel of judges and the public vote for their favourites. As part of BBC Four’s Japan season we’ve made some short films about cool Japanese words. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/japan

2 comments:

Edward Huse said...

Nice phenomenon to observe for sure, and sometimes illuminating - but I am also writing to say thanks for becoming my first follower on springfieldvermont.org. I am curious, what prompted you to do so?

Japanese words said...

This makes it both easier and more difficult to learn Japanese. On one aspect there are a lot of foreign words introduced. On the other hand you never know whether you should use the native word or the foreign word.