Cultural Life
Explore Japanese words for festivals, family, music and food. Every word comes with its script, romaji to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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Cultural Life 🎉
Cultural life is about **festivals, family, food, music and traditions**. In this module you will learn the key Japanese words for them. Japanese uses its **own scripts**. Every word below is shown with its **script**, the **romaji** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning.
Key words (1) 🗂️
Learn these four cultural words:
Match each word to its meaning
- お祭り (omatsuri)
- 家族 (kazoku)
- 音楽 (ongaku)
- 食べ物 (tabemono)
- festival
- family
- music
- food
What does it mean?
What does the Japanese word 音楽 (ongaku) mean?
- music
- food
- family
- festival
Key words (2) 🎵
Now four more words about celebrations:
Match each word to its meaning
- 踊り (odori)
- 伝統 (dentou)
- 歌 (uta)
- お祝い (oiwai)
- dance
- tradition
- song
- celebration
Cultural life
Select the TWO things that are part of cultural life.
- Celebrating festivals with family
- Enjoying music and dance
- Ignoring all traditions
- Never celebrating anything
Choose the Japanese word
In Japanese, the word for 'family' is _____, and the word for 'music' is _____.
Three scripts 💡
Japanese uses **three scripts** together: **kanji** (漢字, characters borrowed from Chinese), and the two phonetic sets **hiragana** and **katakana**. The **romaji** in brackets shows the sound. Festivals like **お祭り (omatsuri)** bring communities together with food, music and dance.
A special day
What does the Japanese word お祭り (omatsuri) mean?
- festival
- homework
- school
- the weather
Cultural life in action
An interactive activity.
One more
The Japanese word for 'food' is _____, and the word for 'festival' is _____.
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An interactive activity.