Culture and slang · Lesson 13

Made-in-Japan English: 「マンション」「コンセント」

コンセント、借かりてもいい？

「マンション」, 「コンセント」 and 「クレーム」 look English but mean something else. Common wasei eigo for home, town and work, used right in each language.

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In this lesson

  1. 01Main dialogue: a friend’s new home
  2. 02Where wasei eigo comes from
  3. 03Where you live, what you use: words at home and in town
  4. 04Words about work and people
  5. 05Words whose meaning changed: don’t get them backwards
  6. 06Easy misunderstandings

Practice

  • Match each word to its meaning
  • Which word would you use?
  • What does this sentence mean?
  • True or false?
  • Choose the word for each blank
  • Put the dialogue in order

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