Speaking and pronunciation
Practical guides on speaking, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and study planning, written for learners who want to use Japanese in real life.
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AI Japanese Practice for the Intermediate Plateau
Intermediate learners stall because they have become good enough to survive any conversation with about three hundred safe words. Nothing in an ordinary chat forces them past that, so the practice has to.
16 min readJapanese Business Email Phrases That Sound Natural
Japanese business email is largely made of fixed phrases. Learn the skeleton and about thirty set expressions and your messages read as normal Japanese rather than as translated English.
14 min readJapanese Phone Call Phrases for Work and Daily Life
A Japanese phone call runs on a short, predictable script. Learn that script and the part you dread, the first ten seconds, becomes the easiest part of the call.
11 min readJapanese for Meetings and Presentations at Work
In a Japanese meeting the grammar is rarely the problem. What sounds wrong is a correct sentence delivered with no cushioning, and cushioning is a skill you can learn in an afternoon.
12 min readJapanese 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.
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