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Japanese Workplace Greetings and Office Etiquette
A Japanese office runs on a short script that repeats every working day. Learn the ten lines that make it up and you stop guessing at every doorway, handover and departure.
13 min readSonkeigo and Kenjougo: Honorific Japanese Made Clear
Honorific Japanese looks like three grammars to memorise. It is really one question asked over and over: whose action is this, and which side of the line is that person on?
13 min readJapanese Business Card Etiquette and What to Say
The meishi exchange lasts about twenty seconds and follows a fixed order, so nothing about it has to be improvised. Learn the order and the four or five lines that go with it, and you can spend the moment listening to the other person's name instead of worrying about your hands.
13 min readJapanese for Online Meetings and Remote Work Calls
A video call strips out almost everything that made a Japanese meeting easy to follow: the room, the seating, the small nods. What is left is your voice and a lagging line, so the phrases you need are different from the ones a textbook meeting chapter gives you.
14 min readJapanese Customer Service Phrases for Part-Time Work
Service Japanese is a small, fixed register that staff repeat hundreds of times a shift. Learn the script in order and your first day behind a counter becomes a matter of delivery, not of grammar.
12 min readHow to Apologise at Work in Japanese
A workplace apology in Japanese is a small piece of engineering: pick the right strength, say it fast, explain in one clause, and finish on what you will do about it.
13 min readJapanese at the Doctor: Symptoms and Appointments
A Japanese clinic visit follows the same script every time. Learn that script and a fever stops being a language problem on top of a health problem.
14 min readJapanese Emergency Phrases You Hope Never to Need
Emergency Japanese is a small, fixed vocabulary said under pressure. Learning it once means you are choosing words rather than searching for them on the worst day of your trip.
13 min readJapanese at the Bank: Accounts, Cards, and Transfers
A Japanese bank visit is mostly a small number of fixed procedures wrapped in very polite language. Learn the procedure words and the two or three phrases that slow the staff down, and the rest becomes routine.
12 min readJapanese for City Hall: Registration and Paperwork
A Japanese city office is a queue, a form, and a short conversation at a window. Learn how to name the procedure you came for and the visit stops being intimidating.
13 min readRenting an Apartment in Japan: Phrases and Questions
Renting in Japan is less about vocabulary size and more about knowing which twenty questions decide whether a flat suits you. This guide gives you those questions in natural spoken Japanese.
14 min readJapanese at the Hairdresser: Getting the Cut You Want
A haircut goes wrong in Japanese for one reason: the request was vague. Learn to state amounts and directions precisely and the rest of the appointment takes care of itself.
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