What’s the most recent vocabulary word or phrase you’ve learned, and where did you learn it? Of course vocabulary you just guru’d on WK is fine, but you can also share useful words you picked up from a book, TV show, manga, song, etc!
My hope is that we can look at each others posts and learn something new~ Plus, this thread can also be a record you can look back on in the future to see how far you’ve come So, let’s get sharing!
えい - ray (e.g. stingray)
Picked it up from watching the Japanese dub of Moana
Learned five seconds ago by looking at this thread.
Serious one: I learned 右翼（うよく）right wing (as in the Japanese right wing groups that blast nationalistic slogans from black vans or outside Yasukuni Jinja). Learned it from Karl Taro Greenfeld’s very entertaining (but full of bullshit) book Speed Tribes.
Depends on your definition of learned. I’ve studied it here and I’d guess never got wrong. However, it’s one of those words I wouldn’t be able to recall or use outside WK. Also, WK defines it simply as right wing, but in that book it’s used to refer to the right wing groups (although the book is in English).
昼夜逆転 - ちゅうやぎゃくてん
One’s days and nights being reversed. Learned from a SHISHAMO song of the same name.
I was excited when I picked up on the first half of this phrase from the song:
久々の休み 私は布団の中
昨日の疲れ言いわけにして 宝の持ち腐れ
…and just now, learning 宝の持ち腐れ - たからのもちぐされ which jisho.org defines as
“pearls thrown before swine; unused possession; useless possession; waste of talent”
Dang. Good thread. I’m gonna work on better understanding this whole song today!
Totally – I’m really finding that the “first page syndrome” or whatever that they always talk about is really true – you start to internalize the way that an author writes and the devices they use over and over and soon the pages just fly by.
Whenever I look up a word I just save it to a folder in the Midori dictionary app called “No. 6” – I’m only at the end of chapter 1 and I have almost 500 words in there…
つぶやく is super common in fiction. Although, not one you’re going to use too much in real life, I’d guess. I’ve seen it written in kana before, which may be why WK doesn’t have it?
The most recent new word I encountered “in the wild” was 肌着 (underwear) in 大逆転裁判 2. Not a word I normally use when communicating in Japanese, but still important to learn, lol.
Thanks to a YouTube video of an “Attack on Titan” soundtrack and a specific comment I have just learned the word “traitor”: 裏切り者（うらぎりもの）(and it’s quite satisfying to know that when it’ll come up in WaniKani later I’ll already know it)
Oooh how is it? I got the collection of the first 3 games that has both Japanese and English a while ago and just started playing through them in Japanese. Defs have my eyes on 大逆転裁判 1 and 2 though because Japan exclusives
And now to contribute to the thread:
一本気（いっぽんぎ）- one track mind
Learned from WK level 4. It’ll still be a while before I get to kanji I don’t know but I’ve been surprised by the amount of new vocab I’ve picked up so far~
So, let’s get sharing!
