Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 16 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v14a — weather and creatures, and two words for かぜ
about 10 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Say 風邪を 引きました, and tell 風 from 風邪.
- Choose 鳴く for an animal and 泣く for a person.
Words this lesson teaches
- 風
- wind — 風が 吹きます, with v11b's 吹く and its が
- 風邪
- a cold — 風 plus 邪, harm; and you catch it with 引く, from v11a
- 鳴く
- to cry, of an animal — w06b's 泣く is a person and 鳴る is a thing
- 雪
- snow — 雪が 降ります, with v11b's 降る
- 夏
- summer — one of the four 季節, from w11b's list
- 冬
- winter — when w09's 暖房 earns its keep
- 海
- the sea — where you 泳ぐ when v05's プール is closed
- 昼
- midday, daytime — the 昼 of v02's 昼ご飯 and w11a's 昼休み
- 夜
- night — and 夜 is where w13's 昨夜 gets its second character
- 昨夜
- last night — read ゆうべ here, though the characters would give さくや
- 村
- a village — smaller than w16a's 市, and 村 is also an administrative unit
- 横
- the side, beside — and horizontal, against 縦, vertical
- 動物
- an animal — 動 moving plus 物 thing; w10's 動物園 is where they are kept
- 魚
- a fish — and what w16c's 釣る catches
- 犬
- a dog — and in Japanese a dog 鳴く rather than barks
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.