Name: Are you using Japanese - English words?!
Uploaded: 2021-01-25T09:39:28.000Z
Duration: 5 min 26 s
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反身代名詞

If you find yourself saying any of these words, stop and think again.

情態副詞

Of course, the main reason for this confusion is that there are actually many words written in Katakana that are English.

but the Japanese words I'm going to show you today are almost completely different to the English word.

Pench sounds a little like the English word pinch, which is what these do when they come together.

You can also pinch your brother or sister when they're being annoying.

So perhaps that's where the confusion comes from.

As a side note, pliers is also plural so it has an s on the end.

Now, you may think that a scarf is a  kind of light material like this maybe.

In fact, this and this one are both scarf.

The one you're wearing around your neck right now, that's a scarf. 100%.

I did a little research online and found out that muffler is actually just an old-fashioned word that we don't use anymore.

So it's best to refer to both things as scarf.

Of course, this is bottle in English but we don't call it a PET bottle.

In fact, the first time I heard PET bottle, I thought we were talking about a bottle for a pet like a dog or a cat.

But I soon realized that PET stands for what it's made from.

We also named the bottle after the material but we chose the much simpler word, plastic.

So, while they're terrible for the environment, if you do need to talk about this you should use the word plastic bottle.

Sha-pen sounds like two English words put together

Sharp makes sense because these kind of pencils are always kept sharp.

But pen has a totally different meaning in English.

So, in primary school we'll use a pencil from about ages 6 to 12 and then in secondary school from 12 years old onwards we switch to pens.

So, actually we don't use mechanical pencils often.

People usually just use an ordinary pencil.

The word manto comes from the English word mantle.

Mantle is a very old-fashioned word that nobody uses anymore and actually I'd never heard of it.

It may come up in old literature or old novels but in daily life and conversation, I think not many people would know what you meant if you called this mantle.

Instead, we use the widely known cape as in for the short ones or cloak for the much longer ones.

I hope this short video has helped you to understand some of those small differences between these Japanese - English words

and the actual English words that we use every day.

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