N2 · 41 words

Higher education and research

Degrees, papers, conferences and the people who supervise them.

Academic Japanese leans on a few kanji that keep returning, above all 学(がく) and 論(ろん): 論文(ろんぶん), 学会(がっかい), 学説(がくせつ), 学位(がくい). Two words trip English speakers. 研究室(けんきゅうしつ) is not just a laboratory: it is a professor's research group, and students of literature belong to one too. And 奨学金(しょうがくきん) is translated "scholarship", although many of them are loans that have to be paid back.

The words

Verb (1)

論じるto discuss; to argueVerbN2

この本(ほん)は、言語(げんご)と社会(しゃかい)の関係(かんけい)を論(ろん)じている。This book discusses the relationship between language and society.

This list belongs to School, university and research — five lists and 204 words that can also be practised as a whole.

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