Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Typhoon is coming (again!)

Today my husband is staying at home, though it's Wednesday.
Not because he is sick, but because of a typhoon. It's raining now. I heard a typhoon is going through Taipei city this afternoon.

In Taiwan, as a typhoon comes, everybody watches TV carefully. They are waiting for the official announcement of Typhoon Day-off.
Last night, the typhoon hadn't arrived yet though, the government decided to declare it. So today every citizen in Taipei are suspended from school and company.


*Japanese Word of the Day*
外はどしゃぶりだね。
/soto ha doshaburi dane/
It's pouring rain, isn't it?

By the way, have you ever heard about 擬音語/gi-on-go/ in Japanese? 擬音語 means "onomatopoeic words. There are many onomatopoeic words in Japanese.

雨がしとしと降る。
雨がぽたぽた降る。
雨がぱらぱら降る。
雨がざあざあ降る。

雨が...降る /amega furu/ means "It rains."
These blue colored words are the so-called 擬音語. Have a guess! Which word expresses the heaviest rain? I'll write the answer tomorrow :P

2 comments:

  1. A typhoon sounds scary. I'm sure they can be really dangerous. I'm in southern California so we don't have extreme weather. It's almost always perfect!

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    1. Yeah, but fortunately, that typhoon wasn't so big. I was stayed at home with my husband all the day, but I heard all karaoke boxes, department stores and movie theaters in Taipei were full of people when it comes to Typhoon Day-off.Lol
      I envy you! All of the cities where I've ever lived had a lot of rain!

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