{"id":3265,"date":"2021-07-14T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2021-11-12T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:13:08","slug":"mimi-bunpou001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/mimi-bunpou001\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko boko and bata bata: Japanese Onomatopeia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8211; Vol.1 &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-line4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"60\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3412\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"border: 5px solid #e2cdd9; padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px; background: ##ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\uff31\uff1aI really like Japanese manga, especially \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba\u201d. From time to time I hear words like boko boko or bata bata: what kind of words are those? <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\uff21<\/strong><\/span>\uff1a<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As you, there are so many people who decided to start learning Japanese because they love anime and manga.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There\u2019s no better way to improve your Japanese than to keep doing what you are passionate about. Ganbatte kudasai! <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Regarding boko boko and bata bata.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These words in Japanese are called \u201conomatope\u201d, and are used to mimic a sound or an idea. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Even if to people from certain countries, the use of words like boko boko and bata bata might sound childish, in Japan we have tons, really hundreds of them!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From the elementary school kid to the old man at the station, every Japanese uses them frequently.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Try to remember as much as you can&#8230;but you have to know that it won\u2019t be easy to master the usage of onomatopoeias.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For the moment, I would suggest you enjoy the way how anime and manga use onomatopoeias.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And why not try to place one of them during a conversation with a Japanese person?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Maybe that person will looked puzzled if your usage is not too spontaneous, but that is for sure the best way to gradually become able to speak naturally and more and more like a native speaker.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-pic-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3414\" \/><\/p>\r\n<!--\r\n<p><strong<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>\uff21\uff32\uff23 teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\uff31<\/span>\uff1aI really like Japanese manga, especially \u201cDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba\u201d. From time to time I hear words like boko boko or bata bata: what kind of words are those? <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\uff21<\/strong><\/span>\uff1aAs you, there are so many people who decided to start learning Japanese because they love anime and manga. There\u2019s no better way to improve your Japanese than to keep doing what you are passionate about. Ganbatte kudasai! \r\n\r\nRegarding boko boko and bata bata. These words in Japanese are called \u201conomatope\u201d, and are used to mimic a sound or an idea. Even if to people from certain countries, the use of words like boko boko and bata bata might sound childish, in Japan we have tons, really hundreds of them! From the elementary school kid to the old man at the station, every Japanese uses them frequently. Try to remember as much as you can...but you have to know that it won\u2019t be easy to master the usage of onomatopoeias. For the moment, I would suggest you enjoy the way how anime and manga use onomatopoeias. And why not try to place one of them during a conversation with a Japanese person? Maybe that person will looked puzzled if your usage is not too spontaneous, but that is for sure the best way to gradually become able to speak naturally and more and more like a native speaker.<\/p>-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Vol.1 &#8211; ARC teacher Mimi Sensei will answer your questions regarding Japanese language. &nbsp; &#038;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[45,25,44,26,28,23,46],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mimi-sensei-oshiete","category-news","tag-boko-boko-meaning","tag-japanese-grammar","tag-japanese-onomatopeia","tag-japanese-writing","tag-jlpt-n4","tag-jlpt-n5","tag-poko-poko-meaning"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mimi-sensei.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}