Analysis of the Meaning of Gairaigo Related to Covid 19 on Learning Speaking Skills

--During the Covid 19 pandemic, the world of education changed completely. Previously learning was done face-to-face in class or offline, but during the pandemic it was done online. One of them is learning Japanese especially speaking skills by online . One of the materials for speaking skills is presentation in Japanese. The topic of the presentation was "Pandemic of Covid 19". On this topic, students use the Gairaigo Japanese language vocabulary. This is due to lack of Japanese vocabulary knowledge related to covid 19. Gairaigo is an absorption word from a foreign language in Japanese, especially from Western European languages and does not include vocabulary from Chinese. The word uptake is already commonly used in daily life as is the original Japanese vocabulary. Therefore the purpose of this study is to determine the meaning of the equivalent gairaigo in Japanese. The research method is descriptive method that describes the equivalent of gairaigo associated with covid 19 with Japanese. Data collection techniques used are listening and note technique. Researchers watched the video presentation and noted the object of research in the form of gairaigo associated with covid 19. The results of the study, were found gairaigo from English and Indonesian.