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Let’s learn Japanese with our funny and laid-back manga blog (yonkoma manga), “Ocha Is Competitive”.

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Vocabulary & Grammar

• いつも – always
• 私わたし – I, me
• 〜と + 張はり合あう – to compete with someone
• verb volitional-form + とする – try to do something
• 例たとえば – for example
• 腰こし – lower back
• 〜が痛いたい – something hurts
• 僕ぼく – I, me (used by men)
• 〜も – too, as well
• 膝ひざ – knee
• あっそ – right (sloppy version of あっ、そう = oh, is that so?)
• 見みて – look!
• おなか – stomach
• 割われる – to split
• おなかが割われる (stomach splits) – to get a six pack
• verb te-form + きた – started/has begun to…
• 二人ふたりで – two of us, together
• 筋きんトレ – workout (abbreviation for 筋力きんりょくトレーニング = muscle training)
• 〜している – to have been doing something
• えっへん – ahem (onomatopoeia used to express confidence)
• ぷるん – onomatopoeia for wobbling

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Comment from the Author

実際じっさいはうっすらフォーパック…
Actually, it’s a faint four-pack…

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