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Reading is key for improving one's vocabulary. What could be more fun than reading manga? But this can be a challenge for beginners and upper beginners. Manga often uses slangy language and has inside jokes or cultural references which the learner may not be familiar with.Listen as Yumi reads a Shinchan comic while Clay asks questions about vocabulary, slang, culture, and why the manga is funny. We look at the story, panel by panel, fully exploring the meaning.
Shinchan is a 5 year old who can be a little rude. He makes mistakes but that can be a good learning experience for all of us since someone usually corrects his mistakes.
VOCABULARY:
- 公園(こうえん) park
- あき缶(かん) empty can
- 作(つく)った made
- 恐竜(きょうりゅう) dinosaur
- 登場(とうじょう)しました made appearance; introduced
- オラ I; me [Shin-chan’s preferred pronoun]
- アクション仮面(かめん) Action Masked (avenger)
- 作(つく)りたい want to makeよし all right; okay!
- さっそく at once
- 行動開始(こうどうかいし) take action; begin action
- まず first
- 作戦会議(さくせんかいぎ) strategy meeting; council of war
- ジュース juice
- お茶菓子(ちゃがし) cake served with tea; teacake
- 必要(ひつよう) essential; needed
- 会議終(かいぎお)わり meeting over
- 次(つぎ)は as for the next
- 設計図(せっけいず) plan; blueprint
- かこう I’ll write
- できた finished; I did it
- いよいよ finally; at long last
- カンカン empty can
- 集(あつ)めよう I’ll gather
- 母(かあ)ちゃん mother
- なに what?
- こっちのセリフだよ That’s my line; that’s what I should be saying
- なんか用(よう)？ Do you need something?
- 今朝(けさ) this morning
- ゴミの日(ひ) trash collection day
- 全部(ぜんぶ) all; completely
- 出(だ)しちゃった put out; took out
- ちょっと待(ま)って wait a second; just a minute
- ショック shock!
- ただいま I’m home
- おかえりなさいませ welcome back (polite)
- 熱(ねつ)でもあんのか do you have a fever or something?
- お風呂(ふろ)にしますか Would you like a bath
- ご飯(はん)にしますか would you like dinner?
- ぶつけた hit (head)
- ビール beer
- 持(も)ってきます I will bring (you)
- 飲(の)まない don’t drinkから because of
- 今(いま)なんと？ What did you just say? [literally, now what?]
- 休肝日(きゅうかんび) teetotal day; day off drinking; liver rest day [a play on 休館日 (also pronounced kyuukanbi but means a day a museum or some other institution is closed)]
- 心理状態(しんりじょうたい) state of mind; (one's) mental state
- ななこおねいさんち Nanoko [おねえさん is the correct spelling for “older sister" or “young woman”; the ち is short for のうち (’s house)]
- こんな気持(きも)ち such a feeling眠(ねむ)れない can’t sleep
- １分後(いっぷんご) one minute later
- 翌日(よくじつ) next day
- ぼうや boy
- 手伝(てつだ)ってくれた (you) helped out
- こっちで処分(しょぶん)しとく we will dispose of (the cans) [こっち literally means “here” or “this side” but it means “we will"]
- ごほうび reward
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