Using this worldwide community!

[attwad]

Hey I was wondering if we could use this worldwide community to help remembering some words in a funny way:
I'll try to be as clear as I can:
Do you have in your native language some words that sound like words in Japanese but has another meaning? That's a good way to remember words I think! If I wasn't clear enough here are some examples in my language(French):

- ぎりぎり (just barely) ==> The word we say when we tickle babies
- かっか「閣下」 (his excellency) ==> well this one is a bit strange when
heard in France because it means shit... so that's a total change of context when speaking to royalty!

Fell free to contribute to this post with your native language!

[nandemoii]

川　かわ　kawa (in roomaji) = coffee in Polish.
ばらばら　 scattered, disperse, loose, disconnected, in pieces, in drops, rustling　＝(slang: ) make love in Polish
買う　かう　kau (when spoken) = faeces GB, feces US, excrement
書く　かく　kaku = (in baby language) the same as above
and so on , there are many.

And here's my favourite:
母　はは　haha = Ha, ha. Japanese can't be a serious language, you laugh at your own mother.

[rssol0420]

It's funny to know the other meanings of different words in different languages that share the same pronunciation.

My mother tongue is Cantonese. Pronunciations of quite an amount of words in Cantonese have got some really similar pronunciations with the equivalent word in Japanese.

なんだよ sounds like a bad word in Cantonese indeed

[Ulver_684]

川　かわ　kawa (in roomaji) = coffee in Polish.
ばらばら　 scattered, disperse, loose, disconnected, in pieces, in drops, rustling　＝(slang: ) make love in Polish
買う　かう　kau (when spoken) = faeces GB, feces US, excrement
書く　かく　kaku = (in baby language) the same as above
and so on , there are many.

And here's my favourite:
母　はは　haha = Ha, ha. Japanese can't be a serious language, you laugh at your own mother.

Nandemoii-san!

Thanks that was very useful!