to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
vigilance; caution; alertness; precaution; being on guard
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
language of one's country; mother tongue; native language
that is to say; so that means
to heal; to cure; to satisfy (e.g. hunger, thirst); to alleviate (e.g. sorrow, fatigue)
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
trip abroad; overseas travel
Japanese person; Japanese people
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
just now; at this moment; at this point of time
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
memory; sense; experience
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
same; similar; (just) like; equal
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
arranged; taken care of; settled; completed; finished
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)
item; something that one "just has to have"
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
small number; few; minority
though; notwithstanding; although
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
to resort to violence; to perform a drastic act
use; utilization; utilisation; application
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
disassembly; dismantling; factorization; decomposition; resolution; deblocking
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge