S3-36 What does “Mansion” mean in Japanese? A house or an apartment?

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Sunshine Japanese Yasashii Nihon-go radio

Yoko O'Brien

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Let's learn Japanese with Yoko, a Japanese teacher in Cairns, Australia. https://twitter.com/SunshineJapane1 In this radio, she talks in easy Japanese to learners, like a monologue. The topics will be her daily life, her trip, experience, Japanese culture and language, and so on. Hope you can enjoy Yoko's talk and it can encourage you to keep learning Japanese. Also, you can check the Japanese script in each episode description. Those scripts includes kanji with hiragana pronunciation, which are very helpful. [ Special Thanks ] Pocket sound – https://pocket-se.info/

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Let's learn Japanese with Yoko, a Japanese teacher in Cairns, Australia. https://twitter.com/SunshineJapane1 In this radio, she talks in easy Japanese to learners, like a monologue. The topics will be her daily life, her trip, experience, Japanese culture and language, and so on. Hope you can enjoy Yoko's talk and it can encourage you to keep learning Japanese. Also, you can check the Japanese script in each episode description. Those scripts includes kanji with hiragana pronunciation, which are very helpful. [ Special Thanks ] Pocket sound – https://pocket-se.info/

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S3-36 What does “Mansion” mean in Japanese? A house or an apartment?

Sunshine Japanese Yasashii Nihon-go radio

8 minutes 20 seconds

11 months ago

S3-36 What does “Mansion” mean in Japanese? A house or an apartment?

What katakana words confuse you? Is “Mansion” one of them? Check it out!

This episode's vocab list:

どんな建物 building

モデルルーム show apartment/ show flat

普通のアパート standard apartment/flat

紛らわしい misleading; confusing; ambiguous

その違いは、はっきりと決められている訳ではないそうです。I found that the distinction isn’t clearly or officially defined.

それでも一般的には、Even so, generally speaking,

木造 wooden building

軽量鉄骨造 light steel-frame building

3階建て 3-story

鉄筋コンクリート造 reinforced concrete building

鉄骨鉄筋コンクリート造 steel-frame reinforced concrete building

これは正しいとか正しくないとか、そういうものではない This is not about whether something is correct or incorrect

エレベーターがあるかないかを目安にする to use the presence or absence of an elevator as a standard

義務 obligation

自信を持つ to have confidence