I learned two useless words today. I thought I would share the random joy of words you might never use in your whole life! Ah! The joys of random vocab.

べにざけ (紅鮭)

A coworker was playing a fish videogame and the word "sockeye salmon" came up. I'm not quite sure what type of salmon that is, but it rings a bell.

はくないしょう （白内障）

I am totally unsure of the English meaning of this one. But my goal is to know Japanese good or better than English. Some old students were talking about someone with "cataracts" and i could guess from context but didnt know (either!) word. Wikipedia tells me that it means like when the eye gets cloudy (thus the 'white' kanji i guess) with old age. Now we just have to work it into a conversation somehow. Gonna be hard!