Let the games begin!

Well, our new Japanese course has started, and that means new words to learn. To help you, here are the words in quiz form.

Note that the entry for いろいろ　is written 色々. The first character is a kanji, 色, which means color. The little insect next to it, 々, is neither a kanji nor a kana character, but an 'iteration mark', which is a fancy way of saying that it indicates that the previous kanji should be repeated. So 色々 is 色色 (色 on its own, by the way, means 'color'). Note that the pronunciation of the two kanji can be different, as in 時々, pronounced ときどき.

Anyway, if you click Learn in the quiz, you see the Japanese and have to guess the English. The Japanese you see is either in kanji + hiragana with hiragana in brackets after it, or in katakana. Note that it's probably best not to try and memorize the kanji yet, but to passively learn them just by looking.

I'll keep updating this list and I'll also create a list for the kanji listed at the end of each chapter, where you see the kanji (+ hiragana) and have to type the hiragana. E.g. you see 一つ and have to type ひとつ.