What School Is Like
Learn the Japanese words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a romaji spelling to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Japanese 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Japanese script**, a **romaji** spelling in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Japanese is written **left to right** and mixes kanji with two syllable scripts.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Japanese word to its English meaning
- 学校 (gakko)
- 先生 (sensei)
- 学生 (gakusei)
- 本 (hon)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Japanese word means 'a teacher'?
- 先生 (sensei)
- 学生 (gakusei)
- 本 (hon)
- 教室 (kyoshitsu)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Japanese writing. First, it mixes **kanji** (characters borrowed from Chinese, like 学校) with two syllable scripts, **hiragana** and **katakana**. Katakana is used for borrowed words, like ペン (pen). Second, it is written **left to right**, and **romaji** spells it in our Latin letters. Learn each word with its romaji to say it.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- 授業 (jugyo)
- テスト (tesuto)
- 海 (umi)
- 母 (haha)
Match each Japanese word to how it is said
- 教室
- ペン
- 宿題
- 学生
- kyoshitsu
- pen
- shukudai
- gakusei
How do you say it?
The school 学校 is said _____. The teacher 先生 is said _____. A book 本 is said _____. A lesson 授業 is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Japanese word means 'a test'?
- テスト (tesuto)
- ペン (pen)
- 教室 (kyoshitsu)
- 学生 (gakusei)
Complete the sentence
At school 学校 (said _____), a student 学生 (said _____) studies a lesson 授業 (said _____) with a teacher 先生 (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Japanese school words: 学校 (gakko, school), 先生 (sensei, teacher), 学生 (gakusei, student), 授業 (jugyo, lesson), 本 (hon, book) and テスト (tesuto, test). Keep practising the script and the romaji together.