Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 4 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v04 — the house, and three words for a room you need
about 10 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Ask for the トイレ or お手洗い, and not for the お風呂.
- Recognise フィルム, レコード and テープ as objects from an older list.
Words this lesson teaches
- お風呂
- the bath — a separate room from the lavatory in a Japanese home
- トイレ
- the lavatory — the ordinary word, and what you should ask for
- お手洗い
- the lavatory, politely — literally the hand-washing place, as washroom is in English
- シャワー
- a shower — シャワーを あびる, using the あびる of v11
- 玄関
- the entry hall — the step where shoes come off, inside the door but not yet the house
- 廊下
- a corridor
- ベッド
- a bed — the Western kind; bedding on the floor is w09's 布団
- ストーブ
- a heater — not a cooker, which the English word suggests
- テレビ
- a television — clipped from テレビジョン, by the rule w09 gave
- ラジオ
- a radio
- カメラ
- a camera
- フィルム
- a roll of film — for a camera that needs one, which few now do
- レコード
- a record — the vinyl kind; also a record in the sporting sense
- テープ
- tape — the recording kind, and also sticky tape
- ギター
- a guitar — played with 弾く, as w10's ピアノ is
- 賑やか
- lively, bustling — な; a compliment about a street or a party
- りっぱ
- splendid, impressive — な; written 立派, with the 立 of 立つ
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.