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Basic Vocabulary

HOUSING

家 ie house

マンション condominium or apartment in neat-
manshon looking residential buildings that usually

have at least three stories

アパート apāto apartment in residential buildings that
usually have one or two stories

社宅 shataku company housing

寮 ryō dormitory

CULTURE NOTE Manshon

The English word mansion refers to a huge, gigantic
house like the one that Michael Jackson lived in.

However, the Japanese word manshon refers to a
condominium or an apartment in a relatively neat-

looking, new, and tall apartment building. So, anyone
with a decent job can rent or buy a manshon in Japan. On

the other hand, the word apāto refers to an apartment in

a relatively old and at most two-story building. An apāto
definitely doesn’t have an elevator, whereas a manshon