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Level: Onomatopoeia

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! You’ve come quite a long way towards fully mastering Japanese onomatopoeia. Great job! There’s more to learn, though. Did you know that some Japanese onomatopoeia don’t actually imitate sounds? This makes them quite different from their English counterparts. For example, when you talk about someone who is “leafing through a book” in Japanese, you are using onomatopoeia.

This Japanese lesson teaches you everything you need to know about non-sound imitating Japanese onomatopoeia. You’ll find a simple explanation about why they are different from sound imitating onomatopoeia and the right ways to use them. Just a few of the words you’ll find are parapara (“scattering rain”) and kachikachi (a clattering sound). This lesson is your one stop source for getting in-depth with Japanese onomatopoeia.

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! If you’re a pet owner, you know how animals tend to become part of the family. In fact, we talk about animals all the time. And, you probably use onomatopoeia to describe the sounds they make, like “woof woof” and “meow.” The Japanese language is no different. You might even hear Japanese children referring to dogs using onomatopoeia.

In this Japanese lesson, you’ll discover the onomatopoeia used to describe animal sounds. The focus is the always popular dog (wanwan) and cat (nyannyan). But, you’ll also find a handy chart with some Japanese onomatopoeia and their corresponding animals, from frogs to pigs. As a bonus, there’s a fun practice portion that asks you to fill in the correct animal sound onomatopoeia.

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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In today’s Japanese lesson were talking about kaze. This word can mean wind or cold, as in the illness. The meaning can be derived from context of the kanji - the Chinese characters. In today’s lesson Sakamoto-san has very bad kaze, and she is turning to a traditional Japanese remedy - a hot bowl of okayu (rice porridge)! Learn more in today’s lesson, and afterwards, be sure to stop by and leave us a post!

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Learn intermediate Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! The gang is back from Okinawa, or are they? Find out who made it home and what happened, on this week’s edition of intermediate Japanese.

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