Amaze Your Friends with Instant Japanese!
Languages overlap each other in interesting ways, and it's always fun to observe these accidental similarities, like how casa means "house" in Spanish but "umbrella" in Japanese. It's even possible to pick up some useful phrases by focusing on the words you already know, not unlike the way "Don't touch my moustache" happens to sound similar to doh-itashimashite, or "you're welcome" in Japanese. Here are some ready-to-use phrases of Japanese that happen to sound like English words you already know:
| Cheek show! | Damn! (chikusho) |
| Psycho! | That's great! (saiko) |
| Bimbo | Poor, no money (binbo) |
| Ohio | Good morning (ohayo) |
| Show you | soy sauce (shoyu) |
| Oh, you | hot water (o-yu) |
| Never never | sticky (like natto, fermented soybeans) |
| "E" | good, ok (ii) |
| Cow | buy (kau) |
Amaze your friends!
posted by Peter in Japan at 8:03 PM
2 Comments:
How about:
You know me! Teacup (yunomi)
I'm waiting to see this joke in some movie or TV show. A character will say something like "Well, you know me…" and then take a drink from a Japanese teacup. Or alternatively, a new music video for the rap song OPP:
"You down with OPP? Yeah you know me!" (drink)
10:45 PM
Ah, that's a good one! I kept trying to think of more useful ones and it was really hard.
12:14 AM
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