Japanese Word Thread

[Josiah]

(Nope. The Japanese kasa is a native Japanese word. There's a chance it derrived from some Chinese word a while back, but definately no relation to the Spanish casa.)

(Speaking of days of the week, the English days of the week are named after the sun (duh), moon (also fairly obvious), and, for some reason, Norse gods.)

kissaten: coffee shop

[Winters Rage]

hmm interesting, and lol, I (un-knowingly) named my cat after the Norse god of mischief XD Loki. but I originally got it from cory, mr. safety? the mean kitty on youtube XD

[Josiah]

resutoran: restaurant

[Josiah]

-ya: suffix meaning store or shop (ie. honya: bookstore)

[Josiah]

-ten: a suffix meaning store or shop (ie. kissaten: coffee shop)

[Winters Rage]

Ano: Japanese slang for umm or uhhh.
thats what I heard.

[Josiah]

Not sure if I'd called it slang, but both ano and eeto can be used to fill a gap in conversation while the speaker is thinking, similar to words like umm and hmm. Like the English equivalents, ano and eeto are often spoken in a drawn out way (ano~, ee~to~).

[Josiah]

ryoukan: a traditional Japanese inn

[Josiah]

toshoukan: library

[Winters Rage]

Not sure if I'd called it slang, but both ano and eeto can be used to fill a gap in conversation while the speaker is thinking, similar to words like umm and hmm. Like the English equivalents, ano and eeto are often spoken in a drawn out way (ano~, ee~to~).

Well, I read somewhere on some site which is long gone by now (2nd computer I've had since I found that site) that some people consider 'ano' slang, but that, of course, is someone's opinion.

Personally, I don't care, as long as I want to learn japanese, any means possible will be taken >.> XD
(that is, any means possible that doesn't require money XD)

[Josiah]

bouken: solid wooden sword

[Josiah]

shinai: a practice sword made of bamboo slats, does a whole lot less damage than a bouken, used in kendo

[Josiah]

kendo: Japanese "fencing"

[Josiah]

sado: tea ceremony / the art of the tea ceremony

[Josiah]

ikebana: Japanese flower arranging