Corona is still raging around the world. In Part 4, we pick up some native English expressions from an article about the infected people and the authorities trying to contain it. For example, "He was diagnosed with covid-19. For example, "He was diagnosed with covid-19. &nb...

This is a continuation of the article on the competition among major IT companies in the U.S., which we introduced in Part 2. exert regulators regulators plant set eyeballs users DoJ stumbling block major obstacle funnel pay "plant" is used in articles about IT companies to refer to cell phones...

What do you do when you want to improve your vocabulary? Some look at a vocabulary book to memorize words, and others look up the meanings of unfamiliar words when they see them while reading a text. In particular, articles in newspapers and magazines are often translated to make them easier for readers to understand, or for other reasons, and often make readers think, "Wow, I didn't know there was such a meaning. Naturally, it is not only the meaning of the word that is often translated, but also the meaning of the word itself.

English-language newspapers provide the latest information on countries and regions around the world in English. Using this as a reference, we have collected a variety of phrases, ranging from hard economic terms to slightly surprising phrases. workplace workplace surveillance camera security camera surveillance camera footage from security camera or CCTV footage oil spill oil spill helmet hard hats punishment...

In the last issue, we showed you how to translate the Korean phrase "다 왔다", which means "I've arrived" when you are driving home and you are very close to your house, into Japanese as "They're all here.~~". When we asked a native Japanese speaker who had studied in Korea if there were any "direct translators of Korean into Japanese" around her, she replied, "There were friends who were studying Japanese in Korea, weren't there? Underwear or innerwear (내복) is called "raifuku, nai-fuku...