Hi everyone, it\u2019s Min here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It is commonly said that there are many \u5916\u6765\u8a9e or foreign words adapted into the Japanese language, but have you thought about the \u201cgairaigo\u201d in English?<\/p>\n
Growing up, there were certain words that did not sound English to me and their meaning were also surprisingly difficult to guess, even when used in a sentence. I remember the very first word I had trouble with was \u201cimpromptu<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n Me: What did you get up to over the weekend?<\/em> As I didn\u2019t know what \u201cimpromptu\u201d meant, I couldn\u2019t really say much. When I first heard of the word, I thought it meant \u201cimportant\u201d or \u201cserious\u201d. Never would I have thought that it\u2019s something you do without preparation or on the spur of the moment.<\/p>\n E.g. OR<\/p>\n I had an impromptu<\/strong> sleepover at Sarah\u2019s last night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other examples for me were \u201cforte<\/strong>\u201d, \u201cguru<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cdeja vu<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cForte\u201d (French): a thing at which someone excels in<\/span><\/p>\n E.g. History is my forte<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGuru\u201d (Arabic): a person with knowledge or expertise<\/span><\/p>\n E.g. James may be ten years old, but he\u2019s already an automobile guru<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDeja vu\u201d (French): a feeling of having already experienced the present situation (sparks memory)<\/span><\/p>\n E.g. When I first met Annie, I had a feeling of deja vu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cKaraoke<\/strong>\u201d (pronounced carry-okee<\/em>) is another foreign word that is widely used by all English speakers, just like how \u201csushi\u201d and \u201csashimi\u201d are!<\/p>\n Many words in the English language originate from languages like German or French. Thus when learning English, you are probably subconsciously learning other languages too and I think that is pretty cool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone, it\u2019s Min here \ud83d\ude42 \u6238\u60d1\u3046\u201cgairaigo\u201d in English?\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4e2d\u306e\u5916\u6765\u8a9e\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\uff01 It is commonly said that there are many \u5916\u6765\u8a9e or foreign words adapted into the Japanese language, but have you thought about the \u201cgai…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[341,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-4038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-learning","8":"tag-341","9":"tag-22","10":"article cf"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFriend: My dad took us on an impromptu<\/strong> trip to the country(side).<\/em>
\nMe: Oh wow\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI did an impromptu<\/strong> speech in front of thousands of people.<\/p>\n\u201c\u9006gairaigo\u201d in English?\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u7531\u6765\u306e\u5916\u6765\u8a9e\u3060\u3063\u3066\u3042\u308b\uff01<\/h2>\n