You’d be surprised. I memorized the word 裏切者 from the first Harry Potter book and heard it in real life a short while ago.
Have you ever met a native english speaker who didnt know thr word pancreas? Would you consider knowing the word pancreas as an english speaker to be useless knowledge?
How is that word not useful ? It’s not like the names of organs are obscure vocabulary that hardly anyone uses…
Also, how is it pronounced ? So we can all learn it
I think learning essentially useless but fun words can be a great way to impress your Japanese friends. When someone says “How do you know that word?” It’s great for motivation, and with language learning motivation is everything.
Just off the top of my head, here are a few useless but fun words I learned as a beginner (to great effect in conversations with friends).
かわず frog [In modern Japanese, “frog” is 蛙【かえる】 but this archaic form lingers probably due to the famous Basho haiku: 古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音【ふる いけ や かわず とびこむ みずの おと】 “An ancient pond / frog jumps in / the sound of water”]
斬り捨て御免【きり すて ごめん】 the right for a samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (obviously, this isn’t still an active right)
島流し【しまながし】 banishment (to a secluded island) 土下座【どげざ】 prostrating oneself to the floor
That’s kind of random, but I’m only on my first cup of coffee.
Everyone who is word-shaming the OP, clearly the word Pancreas isn’t useless. He/she/they meant contextually it’s useless at the moment. At my level of Japanese, I would definitely have to say learning that word wouldn’t be essential for me (unless I had diabeetus maybe)
[走馬燈](#fg “そうまとう”)
You can use it when you talk about Steve Jobs
How exactly is the Japanese word for pancreas useless?
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I like both the anime and the live action…
You’d be surprised. I memorized the word 裏切者 from the first Harry Potter book and heard it in real life a short while ago.
Have you ever met a native english speaker who didnt know thr word pancreas? Would you consider knowing the word pancreas as an english speaker to be useless knowledge?
How is that word not useful ? It’s not like the names of organs are obscure vocabulary that hardly anyone uses…
Also, how is it pronounced ? So we can all learn it
I think learning essentially useless but fun words can be a great way to impress your Japanese friends. When someone says “How do you know that word?” It’s great for motivation, and with language learning motivation is everything.
Just off the top of my head, here are a few useless but fun words I learned as a beginner (to great effect in conversations with friends).
かわず frog [In modern Japanese, “frog” is 蛙【かえる】 but this archaic form lingers probably due to the famous Basho haiku: 古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音【ふる いけ や かわず とびこむ みずの おと】 “An ancient pond / frog jumps in / the sound of water”]
斬り捨て御免【きり すて ごめん】 the right for a samurai to kill commoners for perceived affronts (obviously, this isn’t still an active right)
島流し【しまながし】 banishment (to a secluded island)
土下座【どげざ】 prostrating oneself to the floor
That’s kind of random, but I’m only on my first cup of coffee.
Everyone who is word-shaming the OP, clearly the word Pancreas isn’t useless. He/she/they meant contextually it’s useless at the moment. At my level of Japanese, I would definitely have to say learning that word wouldn’t be essential for me (unless I had diabeetus maybe)
[走馬燈](#fg “そうまとう”)
You can use it when you talk about Steve Jobs
How exactly is the Japanese word for pancreas useless?