These Japanese “English” Words Mean Something Else 😳 #japaneselanguage #japaneselesson #katakata

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Wait, do you think this katakon word is English? It's not. Mansion.

[00:00:06]Mansion. In English, that's a huge luxury house, right? In Japanese, it just means an apartment. So, we actually use apartment as well. In Japanese, we call it apato. But apato and mansion are slightly different in Japanese. Mansion is a modern building, modern apartment.

[00:00:29]usually taller than apartment and when we say apato apato it's usually older and smaller apartment okay what about this consto do you know what that means in Japanese in Japanese it's this so it's completely different from English word same sound but completely different one example is In Japanese, this means something free, something extra. So, at the restaurant, if you hear, that's your lucky day. Same sound, different meaning. These are Japanese-made English. They look like English, but they're not. So, next time you see katakano words, don't trust it too much. It might surprise you.