When you wanna buy something, perhaps you can’t understand the price. It will be troubles. Then you can use this words “kore ha ikura desuka” to ask the price. It means “how much is this??” Then the shop keepers will tell you the price. Did you remember the word “sumimasen” that I explained before the topic?? If you can put the “sumimasen” top of the sentence, it will be more polite. Please enjoy shopping in Japan. Words explanations Kore ＝ this ＝ これ Ha ＝ is ＝は Ikura ＝ how much ＝ いくら

Today I will tell you the difference between kirei（きれい） and utsukushi（うつくしい）. These words have similar meaning But it is different in deeply meaning. So I will tell you why Kirei means clean, beautiful,neat. The word express the beauty of the appearance. while utsukushi means beautiful,artistically. Certainly it means the beauty of the appearance. But there is no meaning like clean. So It express more deeply beauty like mind thinking. For example,you can say “the room is kirei.” But we don’t say “the room is utsukushi.” Because perhaps the room is clean. But the room is not beautiful for the mind. I mean the room won’t catch your mind. But there […]