Uploaded August 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Koichi details a nice tip that will add 1000+ Japanese vocabulary to your reading/writing/speaking/listening arsenal in a matter of weeks. How is this possible? You actually already know these words. Kinda.

Here's the page Koichi was looking at in the video:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms

Music:
"Readers! Do you Read?" by Chris Zabriskie
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/02_-_Readers_Do_You_Read