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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).

atm bank bookstore buildings cafe church
ATM
ぎんこう
ほんや
ビル
きっさてん
きょうかい
class countryside department store do exercises do homework flower store
じゅぎょう
いなか
デパート
うんどうをします
しゅくだいをします
はなや
heavy traffic hiking hospital

ice cream store

library many people
くるまがおおいです
ハイキング
びょういん
アイスクリームや
としょかん
ひとがおおいです
meat market movies museum
music store
pool
post office
にくや
えいがかん
びじゅつかん
おんがくや
プール
ゆうびんきょく
restaurant school shoestore shopping center stoplight market
レストラン
がっこう
くつや
ショッピング・センター
しんごう
みせ
street supermarket town work
みち
スーパー
まち
しごとをします

 

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