Octopus at Taco Bell

Every other weekend I spend maybe a total of 11 hours on the bus to visit my spouse. Thank goodness for my iPod, I can kill time listening to some language podcasts.Here are some of the words I memorized yesterday:

1. 章魚 (たこ) : octopus
   Picture having an octopus at Taco Bell. With a little stretch of imagination, an octopus head sort of looks like a bell.
2. 鮪(まぐろ) : tuna
   Picture a tuna at MacDonald. When I think of tuna, I think of a big fish; hence, the association with MacDonald (Big Mac)
3. うに : sea urchin
   A sea urchin has a symmetrical (uniform) shape.

Note: I only memorize the sounds, btw, not the Kanji. I’ve decided not to focused too much on written Japanese this year so I can put more study time on the other languages.

Stay tuned for some French vocabulary in the next day or two.