Answer to Dictation 1
Climate change is having an unforeseen consequence on language.
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Answer to Dictation 2
The JMA has introduced a new item of vocabulary into the Japanese lexicon.
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Answer to Dictation 3
The word kokushobi literally means cruelly hot day or harshly hot day.
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Answer to Dictation 4
Use it when describing or forecasting days when temperatures are 40 degrees C.
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Answer to Dictation 5
Prompted by the scorching weather experienced in Japan in recent years.
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Answer to Dictation 6
There has been record breaking heat in Japan in the past decade.
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Answer to Dictation 7
It recorded the highest temperature ever observed in Japan.
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Answer to Dictation 8
There were a further nine days when temperatures were 40 degrees C.
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Answer to Dictation 9
This was the hottest year since records began in 1898.
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Answer to Dictation 10
Kyoto logged 52 days above that temperature, compared with an average.
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