Sunshine Japanese Yasashii Nihon-go radio

S3-36 What does “Mansion” mean in Japanese? A house or an apartment?


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This episode's vocab list:

どんな建物 building

モデルルーム show apartment/ show flat

普通のアパート standard apartment/flat

紛らわしい misleading; confusing; ambiguous

その違いは、はっきりと決められている訳ではないそうです。I found that the distinction isn’t clearly or officially defined.

それでも一般的には、Even so, generally speaking,

木造 wooden building

軽量鉄骨造 light steel-frame building

3階建て 3-story

鉄筋コンクリート造 reinforced concrete building

鉄骨鉄筋コンクリート造 steel-frame reinforced concrete building

これは正しいとか正しくないとか、そういうものではない This is not about whether something is correct or incorrect

エレベーターがあるかないかを目安にする to use the presence or absence of an elevator as a standard

義務 obligation

自信を持つ to have confidence

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