Society is the 74th skill (assuming read left to right) in the Japanese language course. It has 6 lessons.
Grammar Notes[]
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Use of -そう[]
-そう means "apparently". Attached to -い adjectives, it replaces -い when doing so:
面白い (interesting) → 面白そう (apparently interesting)
Lessons[]
Lesson 1[]
Duolingo Society
- 天皇 (ten-nō) = emperor
- 象徴 (shō-chō) = symbol
- 国家 (ko-kka) = nation
- 平和 (hei-wa) = peace
- ...を大切にすべきだ (...wo-tai-se-tsu-ni-su-be-ki-da) = you should value ...
- [国家間, 両国家, 平和的]
Lesson 2[]
- 建てました (ta-te-ma-shi-ta) = I built
- 世界 (se-kai) = world
- 世界中 (se-kai-jū) = around the world
- 社会 (sha-kai) = society
- 社会の窓 (sha-kai-no-mado) = trousers' zipper ("the society's window" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
- 文化 (bun-ka) = culture
Lesson 3[]
- 戦争 (sen-sō) = war
- 経済 (kē-zai) = Economics
- 経済学者 (kē-zai-gaku-sha) = economist (‘economics student’)
- 行動 (kō-dō) = behaviour/person's actions
- 行動を起こすとき (kō-dō-wo-o-ko-su-to-ki) = the time to take actions
- 反対語 (han-tai-go) = antonym
- 経済的 (kē-zai-te-ki) = economically
Lesson 4[]
- 生活 (sē-ka-tsu) = lifestyle
- 番組 (ban-gu-mi) = TV show
- 面白そう (o-mo-shi-ro-sō) = seems interesting
- 活動する (ka-tsu-dō-su-ru) = to be active
- 部活動 (bu-ka-tsu-dō) = club activity
- 活動的な人 (ka-tsu-dō-te-ki-na-hi-to) = an active person
- 慣れています (na-re-te-i-ma-su) = I am used to
- 話すこと (ha-na-su-ko-to) = speech
Lesson 5[]
- 山口 (ya-ma-gu-chi) = Yamaguchi (a city name)
- 千葉 (chi-ba) = Chiba (a city name)
- 市 (shi) = city
- 県 (ken) = prefecture
- 独立していない (do-ku-ri-tsu-shi-te-i-nai) = be not independent
- 進歩 (shin-po) = the progress
- 進歩した (shin-po-shi-ta) = I made progress
- 文明 (bun-mē) = civilisation
- [進歩的]
Lesson 6[]
- 計画しています (kē-ka-ku-shi-te-i-ma-su) = I am planning
- 受付 (u-ke-tsu-ke) = reception
- 地元 (ji-mo-to) = local
- 物価 (bu-kka) = the cost of living
- AとしてB (A-to-shi-te-B) = B as/as the role of A (more like "A being played by B")
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