Economy, industry and finance

What holds these lists together

These are the lists of the business pages, and they are read long before they are spoken. Almost every term is a kanji compound, and the characters repeat from one compound to the next: 物価(ぶっか), prices, and 株価(かぶか), the share price, end in the same character, and 生産(せいさん), production, shares one with 産業(さんぎょう), industry. A learner who notices the parts reads new compounds before meeting them in a list. Rising and falling have two sets of verbs: 上(あ)がる and 下(さ)がる in conversation, 上昇(じょうしょう)する and 下落(げらく)する in a report, and moving from the first pair to the second is most of the step from talking about money to reading about it.

For example: 経済(けいざい) (the economy; economics), 産業(さんぎょう) (industry), 金融(きんゆう) (finance; financial)

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.