Are there more people here that don’t have English as their native language?
I’m dutch, so English isn’t my first language. And every so now and then WaniKani gives me a Radical, Kanji or Vocab with an English translation that is new to me.
Today I learned:
Radical ⺤ Cleat
Radical Yurt
So Cleat is a spiked shoe, if I look at google images. Like the ones used in a soccer match.
And a Yurt is a big tent filled with furniture
Same here!
Cleat was the word I first met on WK.
I also only new the word “ford” as the name of the famous car brand and was quite surprised to find out it has other meanings 
Better yet, we say studs and not cleats over here in Britain
Ford is new to me aswell.
I know Fort, but bot Ford. Mind explaining it?
Crossing water by walking through it
I learned “Geoduck” 
That was new to me too!
I first thought it was some geodesical tool like a theodolite 
And then I’ve learned that it’s not even pronounced the way I thought it was
Funny thing, I’m a native English speaker and I learned ‘Geoduck’ as well! 
One word that is now firmly stuck in my memory, ready to jump out to make me look smart when the opportunity strikes is Onomatopoeia
this as always a fun thread to read
Ratification from the vocab 批准 (lvl 53)
Also known as an 洗い越し
I’m a native English speaker and I’ve seen a lot of English words that I don’t know
Maybe I’m just bad at English…
So nailbats are a thing
Also geoducks, yonder, Estrangement, Brethren, Brocade, Enlightenment
Words that seem uncommon, difficult to remember the meaning or words that are difficult to spell.
A tiny definition from a dictionary in every word would be much appreciated.
Yurt.
I guess technically Geoduck, but since I ended up putting my own synonym, I completely forgot it was even in there.
Otherwise I haven’t really run into that many words I didn’t already know to some extent yet, but I still have many many levels to go.
Note: while English isn’t my first language, it is my most fluent as I’ve lived in the US for over 20 years.
