Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 18 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v14c — home and colour, and the end of the list
about 12 minutes

After this lesson you can
- Say 赤い かばん and 茶色の かばん, and say why they differ.
- Say 妹 about your own sister and 妹さん about somebody else's.
Words this lesson teaches
- 色
- colour — the word itself, and the 色 inside 黄色 and 茶色
- 赤
- red — a noun, and one of the four oldest colours, so 赤い exists
- 黒
- black — a noun; v10b's 黒い is its adjective
- 茶色
- brown — literally tea colour; a noun, so 茶色の, and 茶色い also exists
- 妹
- my younger sister — somebody else's is 妹さん
- 弟
- my younger brother — somebody else's is 弟さん; the 弟 of v07's 兄弟
- 家庭
- a household, a home life — 家 house plus 庭, garden; v07's 家族 is the people
- 夕飯
- dinner — the same meal as v02's 晩ご飯, and 飯 is the 飯 of ご飯
- 階段
- stairs — 階 a floor, as in w16b's 二階建て, plus 段, a step
- カップ
- a cup with a handle — the third of v02's set, beside コップ and グラス
- 牛乳
- milk — 牛 the 牛 of v02's 牛肉, plus 乳; ミルク is the loanword
- 映画
- a film — 映 to project plus 画, the picture of w16c's 漫画; v05's 映画館 shows it
- 英語
- the English language — 語 makes a language of a country, so 日本語, 中国語
- ラジカセ
- a radio-cassette player — ラジオカセット clipped by w09's rule; long obsolete
- その
- that — near you; the そ of v06's そっち and v09's そこ
- また
- again — また あした is see you tomorrow, and it is what people say leaving
- どなた
- who, politely — the courteous 誰, and the ど of v06's どっち
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.