Japan

Artist: Wakako

Hello my name is Wakako. I am a girl and 7 years old. I am collecting envelop seals. Especially I want to get hamsters. I call my grandmother "Oba-chan". She teaches me a lot of Japanese traditional games for girls. Some of them are "Otedama" or bean bag and "Ayatori" or cat's cradle games.

Wakako
The Earth Club Japan

grandmother in Japanese:

obaachan, obasan, obaba,

obaachan is usually we use for grandmother. obaasan is a little bit polite way to say.

If you talk about your own grandmother, you may say obaacha for friendly. And if you want to say another person's grandmother, you'll say it for obaasan for polite.

Obaba maybe uses in local places not in the city.

Those are the Japanese words for grandmother.

Thanks,
Isamu
Japan

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