Speaking and pronunciation
Practical guides on speaking, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and study planning, written for learners who want to use Japanese in real life.
Speaking and pronunciation · Page 56
Japanese for a Homestay With a Host Family
A homestay is not a long visit. You are living inside someone else's routine, and the Japanese that makes that comfortable is mostly short, repeated and easy to learn in advance.
18 min readJapanese for Marrying Into a Japanese Family
Marrying into a Japanese family means learning a small set of high-pressure sentences, most of which you will say only once, and a much larger register you will use for decades.
17 min readJapanese for Remote Workers Moving to Japan
If your salary arrives from abroad, nobody at work will make you speak Japanese. The errands of your first month will, and after that you have to arrange the practice yourself.
18 min readJapanese for Parents: School Notes, Calls, and Forms
A child in a Japanese school generates a steady stream of paper and short phone calls. Almost all of it repeats, which means a few dozen fixed sentences cover most of the year.
19 min readJapanese in the Dojo: Commands, Counting, and Etiquette
A martial arts class runs on a small set of Japanese words repeated every session. Learn to react to them without translating and the rest of the lesson becomes about your body, not your ears.
14 min readJapanese for Tea Ceremony, Calligraphy, and Ikebana Class
A tea, calligraphy or flower lesson runs on a small set of courtesies and a specific vocabulary of tools and shapes. Learn both and you can follow a class long before you can discuss it.
14 min readHow to Say I Miss You in Japanese
There is no one Japanese sentence that covers I miss you. The natural choice depends on whether you mean I want to see you, I feel lonely, I long for something, or I remember it fondly.
12 min readHow to Read a Japanese Payslip
A Japanese payslip looks dense until you notice it is only three blocks and a final figure. Learn the field names once and you can check your own leave, spot a change, and ask about it calmly.
17 min readReading a Japanese Rental Contract
The viewing is the fun part; the contract is the part that decides what your flat really costs and how you leave it. This guide names each clause in kanji and gives you the question to ask about it.
18 min readJapanese Delivery Slips and Arranging Redelivery
A missed-delivery slip is one of the first pieces of real Japanese most residents have to read under pressure. Once you know its fields, rebooking the parcel takes about two minutes.
16 min readReading Allergen Charts and Stating Food Allergies in Japanese
Japanese packets and restaurant charts name allergens in a small, repeating set of words. Learn those words and the questions that go with them, and you can check a dish before you order rather than after.
17 min readTake Care and Get Well Soon in Japanese
English uses take care for a sick friend, a departing guest and an overworked colleague alike. Japanese uses a different phrase for each, and choosing the wrong one sounds odd at exactly the moment you were trying to be kind.
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