bougai suru (妨害する、ぼうがいする)= to barricade, disturb
In the two videos below, this verb is being used to describe people who get in the way of emergency vehicles.
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boushi suru (防止する、ぼうしする) = to prevent, keep in check
And the speaker in this video shows us how he prevents dehydration in his wonderful bird
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boshuu suru ( 募集する、ぼしゅうする) = to recruit, collect
And this is a recruiting video for the group Morning Musume. It's not my kind of music, but culturally I think they deserve recognition as being the precursor to AKB and all of its offshoots.
For beginner to perhaps intermediate-level students, Japanese words, phrases, and expressions, as learned by an American living in Tokyo. . Some of it I absorbed from my surroundings--slang, abbreviated terms, or new katakana-ized words that have recently entered the Japanese language. Some words are straight-up conventional vocabulary that I've found helpful to know, either in the classroom (where I taught English) or in everyday life, and some words just make me smile.
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