Hi from Australia Ken. x-rays are named after the german physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, he got the Nobel prize for that discover in 1901. Keep on doing videos like this one, they are great !
Alainさん、こんにちは！ Wow, you are from Australia! (I love Australia!) Thank you so much for telling me the origin of the word レントゲン😄 . これからもたくさん日本語の動画を作ります！ Thank you for watching!!
Oh, and let's not forget サンキュー 😊😄 Also, I found this online: Why do Japanese call buffet Viking? "Viking is much much easier to pronounce in Japanese than smörgåsbord is. As such, they changed the name of the hotel's restaurant to “Imperial Viking.” And that is how Tokyo's Imperial Hotel finally decided that buffets in Japan would hereon be known as Vikings (バイキング)." In the USA, it's gas station, and unfortunately we do not have nice gas station attendants who fill our gas tanks and then bow at us as we drive off into the distance! 😊😄 I like the katakana expression "gatsu pose," and that's what I hope to be doing this summer when France wins the soccer World Cup again⚽🇫🇷!!!! 😊😄 Fun lesson.
I wonder if the etymology of アルバイト is the English verb "to arbitrate". "To arbitrate is to act as an arbitrator -an independent, impartial third party that works to settle a dispute between two opposing sides, often by making a decision that they both agree to. This process is called arbitration. Arbitrate can also mean to engage in arbitration, as in If we can’t come to an agreement, we may need to arbitrate." (If that is the origin of the katakana expression, it conveys that a part time job is arbitration between having full-time employment and not having full-time employment.) Another possible etymology is the adjective "arbitrary" --"based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system".
2:29 お任せください！ „アルバイト“ comes from the German word „Arbeit“, which means „work“. Edit: Ah, someone else commented it already. Well, this video is already old, so of course that would be the case.
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