Konnichiwa

Weather has been fantastic, we are having proper summer though it has been moody changeable weather. r

Today I introduce some simple words which are related to Summer. I must say that learning Japanese is far more difficult than learning English. While English language has one character of alphabet, Japanese language has three characters of katakana and Kanji and grammatically how to structure sentences is totally different from English. For that reasons, it is sometimes discouraging to study. However, learning simple words can be easy way to start.

You might have already known some of them! Hope this blog is of any help for your study. I states English words, Japanese words, it’s kanji and it’s hiragana.

Let’s try!!!

Japanese Onomatopoeia can be used for Spring

ぎおんご

We express various sounds, which are surrounding us and hear, in words, that is onomatopoeia (giongo). Compare with English language, Japanese language has much more onomatopoeia. We quite often use them. Describing animated lives, vehicles, human beings, nature and our life style. I have outlined some of them below which may be used to express for something related to Summer. Do you know them?

English	PRONOUNCENSION	JAPANESE ONOMATOPOEIA
Sun is blazing down	kan kan	太陽がかんかんと照らす
Sun glares	gira gira	太陽がぎらぎらと光る
Strong Sun burns skins	jiri jiri	太陽がじりじりと肌に染みる
Sweat pouring	daku daku	汗がだくだくと流れる
Due to Typhoon a door is rattled	gatan gatan	台風で戸がガタン、ガタンと揺れる
Crunch a shaved ice	gari gari	がりがりとかき氷を食べる
light and fluffy clouds	fuwa fuwa	ふわふわした雲
rain heavily	za- za-	雨がざあざあーと降る
Stars sparkle	kira kira	星がキラキラ輝る
rain lightly	para-para	雨がパラパラ
rumbling thunder	goro goro	ゴロゴロ雷が鳴る
A chime rings	rin rin	鈴がリンリンと鳴る
A wind bell dings	charin charin	風鈴がチャリーンチャリーンと鳴る
wind strongly	hyu hyu	風がヒューヒューと吹く
A waterfall falls down in torrents	go go	滝がごうごうと流れる
buzz-buzz	bun bun	蜂がブンブンと鳴く
A cicada cries	mi-n mi-n	ミーンミーン

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy and learn something new. Let’s keep on learning more Japanese words!!!