可算名詞(かさんめいし) or just 可算(かさん)、which means “countable noun” and “countable” respectively. I’m an English teacher and needed to ask another teacher something, and I remembered that he had used it in class the other day so I looked it up.
Mine’s 揃う (そろう), which means to gather or to assemble. I play the Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2012 video game, and the manager says that to gather the players to announce the starting lineup. I keep accidentally pronouncing it サボる instead, which is to skip class or to be truant, which gives the sentence a much sillier meaning in context of a baseball video game.
regarding to learned and understood, i’d say one of my recent learned words are 日 and 月. sun and moon. ひ and つき. day and month. it’s refreshing to see how logical japanese can be.
Handing over your tasks to someone else, like when you’ve been working for six days in a row and you want to hang out with your girlfriend and so you give your coworkers all the information they need to do things by themselves but they still bother you on your day off anyway…
空気を読む - read the atmosphere meaning read between the lines, take a hint, go with the flow.
Not exactly a word but just saw this in an interview with 山中瑤子, writer and director of “Amiko”. She was saying how much she dislikes Japan. I want to watch this film !
When I was young and was just starting to watch anime i ran across “K-ON”
i used to try to learn japanese from the romaji karaoke in the OPs and EDs of anime
So, K-ON first ED is called “Don’t say lazy” and that’s where I first heard this word
isshoukenmei
Now… like 10 years and 40 levels later i finally found its kanji. i’m moved :')
Yesterday, when talking about the real possibility of the Critical Period Hypothesis on foreign language learning in its entirety… 臨界期 (りんかいき) is how you say “critical period” as it refers to the period in which it is easiest to learn things/ need to learn them or you never will…