From Anime to Zen: Japanese Loanwords
20 Mar 2018
During our recent hols to Japan, I just about managed to master ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘thank you very much’ and ‘excuse me’ in Japanese. But the visit also made me realise how many Japanese loan words we have in the English language.Here are a few.AnimeAnime is ‘cartoon’ in Japanese but refers to any kind of Japanese style animation. Comes from...