· 3 lists · 121 words
The economy, industry and finance
Growth, the factory, the share price and the yen.
What holds these lists together
These are the lists of the business pages, and they are read long before they are spoken. Almost every term is a kanji compound, and the characters repeat from one compound to the next: 物価, prices, and 株価, the share price, end in the same character, and 生産, production, shares one with 産業, industry. A learner who notices the parts reads new compounds before meeting them in a list. Rising and falling have two sets of verbs: 上がる and 下がる in conversation, 上昇する and 下落する in a report, and moving from the first pair to the second is most of the step from talking about money to reading about it.
The three lists
Spread across the levels
The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.
| Level | Words | Share |
|---|---|---|
| N3 | 7 | 6 % |
| N2 | 114 | 94 % |
Practise this category
Multiple choice and gaps, across all three lists and all 121 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.