Each month we’re going to take a look at a few food words in different languages worldwide. Let’s start with Japanese!

  • breakfast – cho’shoku, asameshi
  • lunch – chu’jiki
  • dinner – gosan, bansan
  • beer – biiru, bakushu
  • coffee – ko’hi, kafe
  • juice – shiru, ekiju
  • milk – gyu’nyu, miruku
  • tea – ocha, cha
  • water – mizu, suiiki
  • wine – budo’shu, kajitsushu
  • dessert – deza’to
  • cake – keki
  • butter – nyu’raku
  • sugar – sato, shuga
  • salt – shio, en
  • pepper – kosho, peppa
  • soup – su’pu, shiru
  • bread – pan
  • rice – bei, gohan
  • fruit – kudamono
  • meat – niku, nikurui
  • chicken – niwatori
  • fish – sakana
  • egg – tamago
  • cheese – chi’zu, kanraku

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Reference: www.languagelearninglibrary.org