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イケメン is a new word which means "Good looking male person". イケ comes from イケてる which roughly translates to "cool", "good" etc. メン is a word play, and has two meanings; メン as in "men" i.e. the English word for men, and メン as in 面（めん） i.e. the Japanese word for "face". It is used exclusively to refer to the physical attractiveness of males.

It's not a loan word, it means "good looking". This illustrates a common problem with basic Japanese teaching, they tell you that words written in katakana are loanwords, but don't go into all the other uses of katakana (though loanwords is the most common and 7 times out of 10 that is the case). Specifically in this case, certain colloquial words whose ...

味子(あじこ?) is such a weird name... As user1205~-san has pointed out in his/her comment it might be read as みこ. I'd rather expect みこ (as a girl's name) to be spelled as 美子, 実子 or something, though. The といいます (its plain form is という) means "と呼ばれている", "to be called/named". See No.1 in goo辞書「という」 私の友達の名前は、安田味子さんといいます。 might look redundant but actually we ...

As the others have said, イケメン is basically a word that describes a male as being attractive/good-looking. Don't use this for females. As sort of a supplement, I've also seen the word イケてる been used, which can function as a verb too. This was in a book though, I've never heard a native Japanese use this in normal conversation, but it may help you get a feel ...

For the first part of your question, family names (or surnames) are often recognized by your computer... but first names (or given names) are not always recognized. There are a lot of possible character combinations for first names... so your computer will not always know the correct character combination for a specific first name. As long as the ...

Here is my crack at it: Although one may call it a "skill", it's not only a matter of how well you do it, but also the "way of thinking" of a person who uses that skill that is very important. Lets dissect 気持ちの持ち方まで問題にしているのです。 The 気持ちの持ち方 could probably translated as "way of thinking" or "attitude" as Matt N points out. But, basically it means your ...

Unless I'm mistaken, 言葉{ことば} has a much broader meaning than just "words". In daily usage I hear it used to cover concepts like "speech", "phrase", and "remark". So I would translate the sentence as essentially: Write phrases related to railroads. Or, to turn it into more natural English: Write something to do with railroads. So my assumption ...

It sounds to me like you're supposed to come up with a vocabulary list of words, to prepare you for the next class. You might have to write a story, or do some other activity (an impromptu skit, etc) with a railroad theme, and having railroad words in mind would be an advantage. Sure your teacher could just give them to you, but where is the fun in that?