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Today is just going to be a list of words for family for people to learn how to say. Since you have the general pronunciation down for Japanese words, this shouldn’t be too bad at all. Yes?
If you can’t remember the general pronunciation, I DO have a video on how to pronounce things here, where I look like a total dork. Clicky Click!
| English | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Father | Otousan or Chichi |
| Mother | Okaasan (Okasan) or Haha |
| Big Brother | Oniisan or Ani |
| Big Sister | Oneesan or Ane |
| Little Brother | Otoutosan or Otouto |
| Little Sister | Imoutosan or Imouto |
| Grandpa | Ojiisan or Sofu |
| Grandma | Obaasan or Sobo |
| Uncle | Ojisan or Oki |
| Auntie | Obasan or Oba |
| Husband | Goshujin or Otto |
| Wife | Okusan or Tsuma |
| Daughter | Ojousan or Musume |
| Son | Musukosan or Musuko |
| Child | Kodomo or Ko |
| Parents | Ryoushin |
| Sibling | Kyoudai |
Did you know that Panko (Japanese style bread crumbs) literally translates to Bread Child? Pan is break and Ko for child! 😀
That’s all for this time! Thanks so much for stopping by. Did you know any of these? Other than Okasan of course! 😉
Thank you so Namiko Abe from about.com for the correct full Romanji spellings for some of these. As I had forgotten them somewhat.
Arigat?!
Great post. 🙂
HEY it changed my O to a ? … WEIRD lol