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Tweet of the Week #59: Son Will Never Live Down This Bath-Time Story blog.gaijinpot.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

Japan has a long tradition of communal bathing with onsen and sento.
ゴゴゴゴゴゴ = ba bump ba bump ba bump息子よそれは9cmと 言 ( い ) わん= My dear son, that’s not 9 centimetersYou surprised me!
And other useful Japanese (ad)verbsThe Japanese language has a particular (and nameless) category, or group, of adverbs with a similar pattern: four hiragana and a repeated consonant, ending in り.
Like びっくり in the tweet above, a lot of these adverbs can be coupled with the verb する (to do).
With びっくりする leading the way, here are a few expressions you should know for Japanese everyday life.