key concept headphone icon Unit Vocabulary

When you begin to meet people who speak Japanese, or if you are traveling in their country, you will need to know things about a city. Let's learn the names of the places in a city. Look and listen to the names of the places in the following chart. Be sure to repeat after the speaker.

* Loanwords from foreign languages such as English are written in katakana. Until you learn katakana, the words will be written both katakana and hiragana. A bar, ―, means a long vowel: for example, プール(puuru) and ビーチ (biichi).

bank cafe church hospital
ぎんこう
きっさてん
きょうかい
びょういん
library market museum music store
としょかん
みせ
びじゅつかん
おんがくや

park

pool post office restaurant
こうえん
プール *(ぷーる)
ゆうびんきょく
レストラン *(れすとらん)
super market
flower shop
shoe store
pharmacy
スーパー (すーぱー)
はなや
くつや
くすりや
school class movies beach
がっこう
じゅぎょう
えいが
ビーチ (びーち)
one o'clock two o'clock five o'clock six o'clock nine o'clock
いちじ
にじ
ごじ
ろくじ
くじ

 

activity Flashcards


Click Flashcards to practice the numbers or click Begin below.

Here is a print version of this actvity. You will still need to use the online version to hear the words.