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 57
Long Time No See in Japanese: Ohisashiburi and More
Ohisashiburi desu is easy to learn and easy to waste. The greeting lasts two seconds, and unless you have the next line ready the conversation stalls right where it should have started.
13 min readHou-Ren-Sou: Reporting and Consulting in a Japanese Workplace
In many Japanese workplaces, solving a problem quietly on your own is not read as competence. It is read as a gap in the reporting chain, and the language that closes that gap is short, fixed, and learnable.
16 min readQuitting a Job in Japanese: Notice, Letter, and Last Day
Resigning in Japanese is a sequence of set conversations, each with its own opening line. Knowing the shape of that sequence turns a stressful few weeks into something you can rehearse.
18 min readJapanese for Caregivers: Kaigo Phrases for Every Shift
Care work in Japan runs on a small set of gentle, repeated sentences. Learn them as a shift, in the order the day happens, and you will sound like a colleague from the first week.
15 min readJapanese for Nurses and Medical Staff in Japan
A ward asks for two kinds of Japanese in the same minute: plain, warm sentences for the patient in the bed and dense, exact ones for the doctor at the desk. Here is both sides of that minute.
15 min readJapanese for IT Engineers: Stand-ups, Reviews, and Specs
You can already read the code. What a Japanese engineering team needs from you is the spoken layer around it: a clear stand-up, a careful spec question, and a bug report that arrives before anyone has to ask.
15 min readJapanese for Technical Interns and Factory Work
A factory in Japan speaks a small, fast language, and most of it is about safety, quantity, and confirmation. This guide gives a technical intern the lines the floor says every day, from the morning meeting to the dormitory bath rota, and the words that must be understood before there is time to translate.
16 min readJapanese for Hotel and Hospitality Staff
Hotel Japanese from the staff side is a small, fixed script said hundreds of times a day. Learn the script and the register behind it, and the front desk stops being frightening long before your grammar catches up.
16 min readJapanese for Restaurant Kitchen Staff and Floor Work
A Japanese restaurant runs on shouted calls and instant replies, and a new member of staff is judged in the first hour by how fast the replies come. This guide gives kitchen and floor staff the calls, the counters, the prep verbs, and the safety lines that every service repeats, plus the closing and shift-change phrases that end the night.
16 min readJapanese for Construction Sites: Safety and Daily Phrases
On a Japanese building site the language is short, loud, and repeated, and most of it exists to keep people alive. This guide gives you the phrases the site says every day, from the morning assembly to the end-of-day clean-up, and the words you must react to before you have time to translate.
16 min readJapanese for English Teachers Working in Japan
Your job is to keep the classroom in English. Everything around that classroom, from the morning staff meeting to the parent who stops you in the corridor, runs in Japanese, and that is where a little of the language pays for itself every day.
18 min readJapanese for University Students in Japan
A Japanese campus asks you to switch register a dozen times a day: formal to a professor at nine, polite to a senpai at noon, casual to a classmate at the cafeteria, and formal again at the scholarship counter. This guide gives you the lines for each switch.
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