Nihongo no Tane 135: セントオーガスティンの旅そのニ Saint Augustine part two | Japanese Immersion podcast

にほんごのたね Nihongo no Tane with Yumi

In the previous podcast, Yumi started to talk about her family trip to St. Augustine. Don’t miss the end of this story, where she explains the main reason of their trip and why she couldn’t sleep well that night.

KEY VOCABULARY:

1. 予(よ)約(やく) reservation; booking
2. 無(む)効(こう) invalid; void
3. 慌(あわ)てて in a hurry; in haste [fixed phrase]
4. 近(ちか)場(ば) nearby place
5. 重(かさ)ね合(あ)わせてtaking (the both countries’ histories) together and … [重(かさ)ね合(あ)わせる (to layer multiple things; to overlap)]
6. 説得(せっとく) persuasion
7. 温(おん)故知(こち)新(しん) visiting old, learn new [温(おん) (to warm; to rewarm); 故(こ) (old); 知(ち) (to know); 新(しん) (new); this saying means “an attempt to understand new things by studying the past”]
8. 覗(のぞ)いたり doing peeking into (stores) and [覗(のぞ)い from 覗(のぞ)く(to peek into ; to take a quick look at); ~たり、～する (doing such thing like ~ing and ~ing)]
9. お洒落(しゃれ)なstylish; fashionable; chic;　lovely
10. 結構(けっこう) fairly; quite a bit
11. 大賑(だいにぎ)わい big crowd
12. 雰(ふん)囲気(いき) atmosphere; mood of a space or situation
13. 子(こ)供(ども)連(づ)れtaking children along
14. 漂(ただよ)ってました (to be in the air) [漂う (to be in the air; to drift)]　
15. 清潔感(せいけつかん) sense of cleanliness [清潔 (clean; sanitary)]
16. (ぱぱぱと)しか見なかった looked only (quickly) […しか～ない (to do ~ only …)]
17. 飼(か)っていた had (peacocks) [飼う to have/own (animals or pets)]
18. 野良(のら)クジャク stray peacock [野良(のら) (stray); クジャク (peacock)]
19. 時(とき)すでに遅(おそ)しthe ship has already sailed [literally, “Time is already late”]
20. 順調(じゅんちょう)に smoothly

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