Learn how to make a respectful nod to a new familiarity and what to contend when assembly an aged friend. This doctrine covers a initial critical stairs in training Japanese.

This doctrine has concentration on denunciation structure and vocabulary. If we would like to learn about a Japanese characters, or how to pronounce any character, greatfully demeanour during a lessons in a sections “Pronunciation” and “Writing in Japanese” found during a lessons overview page.

Key Topics Covered

Dialogue – Casual Greeting

Greetings are unequivocally critical in many languages. In Japanese, greetings and respectful phrases are given a special importance, as they exhibit that we uncover correct honour to a other person.

The following discourse is an instance of how a review between dual people meaningful any good other might start. In a dialogue, a colleagues mr Smith and mr Tanaka meet. Mr. Smith usually returned from a prolonged vacation.

The review is created regulating Japanese characters on a top. Below it is created in Romaji, with Japanese regulating on a English alphabet. You can also find an English interpretation on a right side.

Vocabulary

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Notes

Note that a word Genki desu ka? definition How are you? in Japanese is not during all as common to use as a English word “How are you”. It is not used usually as a nod for any chairman we meet. It is used if we unequivocally wish to know if a chairman is feeling well, eg. if he/she has been ill or looks gloomy. It also is used among people that know any other, though haven’t met for a time, and therefore might consternation how it is.

The nod konnichiwa is a daytime greeting. There are other greetings that are used for other times of a day. You can learn some-more about them in a denunciation anxiety territory on Greetings.

Dialogue – Polite Introduction

The following discourse is an instance of a respectful nod between dual people that do not know any other given before. It is utterly polite, and we will substantially hear and use it many times when we accommodate new Japanese people if we are in a business situation.

This discourse is rarely formalized, and can usually be taken as is. In English there are indeed no ideal translations of these expressions. It might demeanour a bit bizarre if we demeanour during a verbatim translation. we have attempted to interpret a tangible definition of a words, instead of converting them to English phrases, as they also simulate a Japanese approach of thinking. If it is too bizarre for you, usually remember that it is unequivocally good to know these phrases. They are used utterly mechanically, so usually try to memorize them.

  • Hajimemashite is associated to a difference 始め, hajime, definition start or beginning, and hajimete, meaning for a initial time. It is pragmatic that it is a initial time a dual people meet, so a word is often used to hail someone we accommodate for a initial time.
  • Continuing with a subsequent sentence, it starts with a name, and afterwards a desu. Desu can in this conditions be translated as (I) am. Read some-more about a copula desu in Lesson 2 and in a abbreviation territory To be.
  • The word yoroshiku onegaishimasu, or infrequently even douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu, means something like “please be kind to me” or “please take caring of me” in this situation. It is commonly used in Japanese, in several other situations too, such as for display gratitude in allege or when seeking for a preference etc.

Vocabulary

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Exercise

Try to answer these questions. The answers can be found next a questions.

1. What countenance would we use usually when assembly a chairman for a initial time?

a) Hajimemashite
b) Hai, genki.
c) Genki desu ka?

2. What does “genki” mean?

a) hello
b) healthy, happy
c) good day

3. What would be a correct answer to a word “Hajimemashite, Tanaka desu”, if your name was Smith?

a) Hai, Smith desu.
b) Hajimemashite, Smith desu.
c) Smith, genki desu.

Answers

The answers are 1.a, 2.b, 3.b

Notes on Japanese Culture

The word yoroshiku onegai shimasu is associated to a difference yoroshii definition good, and onegai suru definition doing a favor. Therefore a verbatim interpretation would be something like “please be good to me”.

About business cards…

  • In a business situation, these dual people are expected to mount true in front of any other, bowing. After this sell of phrases, a meishi, business cards are mostly exchanged.
  • When you give someone your business card, we palm it over regulating both hands, so that a receiver might review your label when holding it. The receiver takes it with both hands, and reads it immediately. You should not put a meishi into your slot or so, though hoop it with respect, and during a assembly it is common to have all perceived business cards in front of we on a table.

Links

Read some-more in a following sections.

  • Language Reference territory on Greetings

Credits

Thanks goes to Mark Rogers for comments on this lesson.

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