Cooking at home
What's for dinner, how do you cook it, and does it need more salt? This lesson covers the cooking verbs, the tastes and the things in a Japanese kitchen. One pattern uses ～てみる (try) from Everyday Japanese 3. Tap to hear any line. The bar at the bottom plays a hands-free drill for walking.
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25 kitchen words
Each card shows the word, the form used, and a sentence you'd hear in the kitchen or at the table. Several reuse words from Everyday Japanese 1 and 2.
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Ways to cook, and tastes
Japanese has a separate verb for each way of cooking. The tastes are all い-adjectives.
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- does a lot. Grill, bake, toast and pan-fry are all : , .
- is spicy. For salty, say しょっぱい. You'll also hear .
- Two kinds of boiling. is boiling water. is cooking food in it.
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Four patterns to use today
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Say it in Japanese
Say each one out loud before you reveal the answer. Getting close counts.