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- Other English Discoveries of Late - JapanesePod101. com Blog
Last week, I walked past Medio Avenue in Half Moon Bay (a beach town south of San Francisco), and that street name lodged in my brain; medio means “middle” in Spanish Not long afterward, it dawned on me that “immediate” breaks down the same way as “unmediated”: not + in the middle That is to […]
- Sample Sentence with 好い気味 - JapanesePod101. com Blog
好い気味 (iikimi: serves one right; what one deserves) to like + sensation (last 2 chars ) 私が失敗したとき、彼は「好い気味だ」と言った。 Watashi ga shippai shita toki, kare wa “iikimi da” to itta When I failed, he said, “It serves you right ” 私 (watashi: I) 失敗 (shippai: failure) to lose + failure 言 (i(u): to say) Back to the Blog …
- Where Else Have I Seen 精? - JapanesePod101. com Blog
The kanji 精 (SEI, SHŌ) has an amusing range of meanings: refined; ghost; fairy; energy; vitality; semen; excellence; purity; skill That inspires me to make a
- Answers to Verbal Logic Quiz, July 20 - JapanesePod101. com Blog
1 d 気後れ (kiokure: spirit + to lag behind) means “timidity ” 2 e 場後れ (baokure: location + to lag behind) means “stage fright ” 3 d 心後れ (kokoro-okure: heart + to lag behind) means “timidity ” 4 a 後顧 (kōko: after + to look back) means “looking back, worry, anxiety ” 5 c 後ずさる (atozusaru: after) means “to draw back, to step back, […]
- Verbal Logic Quiz, July 20 - JapanesePod101. com Blog
The Fear Factor Match the words in the numbered list with the lettered possibilities Some of the words mean the same thing, so there are only five lettered options Use two of them twice 1 気後れ (kiokure) spirit + to lag behind 2 場後れ (baokure) location + to lag behind 3 心後れ (kokoro-okure) heart […]
- And Thats Not All! - JapanesePod101. com Blog
Everything’s tangled up in the most fascinating way As I’ve just learned, “accord” comes from ac-, “toward,” + cord, meaning “heart ” I was surprised to find that cord is “heart ” But that’s the root of “cordial” (though not “coronary,” as I would have guessed) I figured there wouldn’t be any connection between “chord” and this […]
- Making Comparisons — Lesson 7 - JapanesePod101
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