tako = octopus

Balancing a crunchy Taco in one arm and a pink ice cream Cone in the other, a purple Octopus stretches its tongue right across to lick the ice cream.

How to remember たこ

Each sound in tako has a picture. Put them together and you get the scene above.

た
ta → Taco

こ
ko → Cone

In a sentence

たこもすきです。

Tako mo suki desu.

I like octopuses too.

このたこがすきです。

Kono tako ga suki desu.

I like this octopus.

Also in lesson 1

ねこ neko · cat

ここ koko · here

たね tane · seed

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