i’m posting previews of these cus i dont want to sit on them forever. im making mushishi standees because if ginko has only one fan its me
(expect a preorder to open soonish. im getting samples made first)
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Assortment of random Japanese words I‘ve learned since arriving here without studying
足元(あしもと)- at one’s feet, underfoot (heard over a tannoy announcement at the station warning passengers to take care when boarding the train)
参る(まいる)- to come, to go (humble) (they never say “電車がきます” when the train’s arriving; it’s always “電車が参ります”)
まもなく - soon (humble) (again, they never say “もうすぐ” on the train; it’s always まもなく. To the point where I actually forget もうすぐ and end up saying まもなく to my teacher and she laughs at me)
最高の(さいこうの)- the best (from My Hero Academia, because they say “the best hero” literally all the time, and at first I was like “you want to be a psycho hero? What??”)
残念(ざんねん)- unfortunate, too bad (randomly heard on the radio and recalled I’d looked it up recently, and then heard it again a couple of times in anime)
さすが - as expected of (hear it in My Hero Academia aaaaall the time)
揚げ鶏(あげどり)- Japanese-style fried chicken (I asked the cashier how to pronounce it when I ordered it)
本線(ほんせん)- mainline (I hear this literally every time I use the local trains because it’s the name of the line, but I only just figured out what it means)
鼻水(はなみず)- snot (lit. nose water) (hear this all the time when kids want a tissue. They just come up to me and say “先生。鼻水” and I’m like ok gross just go get a tissue you don’t have to ask me)
おっぱい - boobs (heard in class as I got groped by a five-year-old girl, double-checked the meaning on the way home)
甲虫(かぶとむし)- rhinoceros beetle (they’re on one of the videos we put on for the kids when they’re coming into the class and they all just say “kabutomushi” whenever it comes up on screen)
かぶと - a particular style of traditional Japanese helmet worn by ancient warriors (it’s in one of the pictures I had to use this term where I ask the kids “what can you see?” and every single class someone would point to it saying “kabuto”)
I was actually really confused the first time they said it because Kabuto is the name of a Pokemon (and not one I’d really expect them to know because it’s from the original 150 and hasn’t really featured in more recent generations) but it looks like this:
So I was like. Wtf there’s no Kabuto here, wtf are you on about?
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