Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 5 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v05 — the town, read from its last character
about 10 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Read a place name from its final character — 館, 局, 院 or 屋.
- Say what デパート, アパート and ポスト actually mean.
Words this lesson teaches
- 図書館
- a library — 図書 books plus 館, the 館 of kanji unit 15 and of w10's 美術館
- 映画館
- a cinema — 映画 a film plus the same 館
- 大使館
- an embassy — 大使 an ambassador plus the same 館
- 郵便局
- a post office — 郵便 post plus 局, an office of a public service
- 病院
- a hospital — 病 illness plus 院; a small clinic is a 医院
- 八百屋
- a greengrocer — 八百 once meant simply many, so the shop with many things
- デパート
- a department store — clipped from デパートメントストア by w09's rule
- アパート
- a flat, usually in a low-rise or older block — a concrete block is マンション
- ホテル
- a hotel — a Western-style one; an inn in the Japanese style is a 旅館
- レストラン
- a restaurant — a Western-style one; 食堂 is the plainer, cheaper kind
- 交番
- a police box — a small staffed post in a neighbourhood, not a station
- 交差点
- a crossroads — 交差 crossing plus 点, the 点 of w11b
- ポスト
- a postbox — the red pillar in the street, not the post itself
- エレベーター
- a lift — and w05's エスカレーター is the moving stairs
- プール
- a swimming pool — where you 泳ぐ, from v11
- パーティー
- a party — the social kind; a political party is a 政党
- 結婚
- marriage — 結婚する, and the person you marry takes と, not を
- ニュース
- the news — the broadcast, and a piece of news
- スポーツ
- sport — and w10's 柔道 and テニス are both スポーツ
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.