You may have already known that many Japanese words are borrowed from English, but do you know that some high frequently used Japanese words are from German. This episode will explain some of those words. One small side note: In the video, I mentioned “Arbeit” in German language, actually its meaning is “Work” or “Job”; comparing to “Part time job” meaning of Japanese, they are different. However, it still qualifies the facts that the Japanese word is borrowed from German, although the meaning is drifted from its origin.
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