This vocabulary course is the very first on animals.
You will notice that the titles of the vocabulary courses are in Japanese. If there are words or kanji in the Japanese titles that you do not understand, do not worry, you will have plenty of time to come back to these courses when we have addressed certain points in grammar.
That said, let’s start :
犬 .
いぬ
. the dog
猫 .
ねこ
. the cat
鳥 .
とり
. the bird
魚 .
さかな
. the fish
狸 .
たぬき
. the tanuki
兎 .
うさぎ
. the rabbit
牛 .
うし
. the cow
羊 .
ひつじ
. the sheep
豚 .
ぶた
. the pork, the pig
馬 .
うま
. the horse
驢馬 .
ロバ
. the donkey
ラマ
. the llama
アルパカ
. the alpaca
ビクーニャ
. the vicuna
グアナコ
. the guanaco
駱駝 .
ラクダ
. the camel, the dromedary
鶏 .
にわとり
. the hen
雄鶏 .
おんどり
. the rooster
ハムスター
. the hamster
フェレット
. the ferret
OK. We have already reached the end of this first course on animals. All this vocabulary is very important, especially the names in kanji because we will find these same kanji later in other vocabulary courses on animals, so memorize them.
Just to let you know, the word "donkey" in Japanese is written more frequently in katakana than in kanji simply because writing 驢馬 in kanji is quite difficult to remember even for the Japanese, especially the first kanji. The same goes for the words "the camel ; the dromedary" which are also more common in katakana. In addition, the Japanese make no difference between "the camel" and "the dromedary". They use the same word to refer to both.
Thank you for reading this course to the end. Reread the lesson, practice writing as well as orally, learn to draw all these new kanji, practice drawing your katakana and hiragana, and from time to time, review the previous lessons.
And see you in the next course.
Introduction