Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Nico Nico Telephone News Class - Learning from news Aug. 18, 2010

エコカー補助金継続
エコカー = ecologically-friendly car or environmentally friendly car
補助金=ほじょきん=hand out, aid
継続=けいぞく=continue


エコカー補助金継続=Subsidies for ecologically friendly car purchases will be extended


モスク建設論争激化
モスク=mosque
建設=けんせつ=construction
論争=ろんそう=controversy
激化=げきか=escalation


モスク建設論争激化=mosque construction controversy escalates


東証、最安値更新
東証=とうしょう=Tokyo Stock Exchange
最安値=さいやすね=record low
更新=こうしん=renew

The Tokyo Stock Exchange hits record low



Pilot killed in China crash believed Korean defector
to defect from a country
to defect to another country

to flee

to be a fugitive

to ask for asylum


In flooded Pakistan, a lack of basic supplies


We have a lack of supplies.
to be short of = to have a lack of


4 killed in Japan Coast Guard helicopter crash off Kagawa
off=off the coast

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