Want to open a Japanese bank account? Right away you’ll notice that Japanese banks do things a little differently from many western banks. But we’ll walk you through setting up an account and provide some tips to make sure you get your Japanese bank account on the first try!
We’ll also look at humble, polite and honorific language in Japan, a critical component of the customer-clerk relationship. We’ll talk about Japanese honorific prefixes and how to use the verb nasaru. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!
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18 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #78 - LI2: Mo’; Money, Mo’; Problems 2”
JapanesePod101.com says:
June 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Mina-san, we’ve intentionally got a lot of words repeating in this series to really make this effective. It’s such an important topic if you come to live in Japan!
AndamanIslander says:
June 5th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I wanted to say that I really like it when lessons go like this. I felt like Piita-san really took control of the lesson, just grabbed that sunkeigo by the scruff of the neck and shook the hell out of it. His explanation was very thorough, just took us through us part by part. I think it was a model lesson.
In particular, the little example conversations towards the end, which illustrate the point he’d been making, well, I just feel that’s very effective from a learner’s perspective. At about this time last year, most lessons seemed to contain those little conversation usage examples towards the end of the lesson. This year, it feels like I hear them less often. Anyway, they’re always helpful, so I vote for more.
To my mind, the *concept* of honorific language and humble language isn’t really that hard to grasp. It’s actually learning how to use it that’s tricky. So I really welcome these business Japanese type lessons.
skrba says:
June 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Naomi sensei, please don’t stop writing adventures of タイガさん, he rules!!! 
Especially was funny the part with putting 2 yen on account, great! 
markystar says:
June 6th, 2008 at 5:27 am
marky here, writing from……….. the united states!
あれ？！
hehehehehe.
this series is going to be really useful, i can’t say it enough.
markystar says:
June 6th, 2008 at 6:12 am
hehehe, not this time. my brother lives in spokane, washington, and is getting married. so i’m in spokane. smalltown, usa. 
this morning i actually called a waiter with すみません.
wow…. that was pretty embarrassing. hahahaha
プチクレア says:
June 6th, 2008 at 6:47 am
@ マーキー先生:
LOL !!!! 
@JapanesePod101の皆さん：
The lesson is great ! I’m really looking forward to seeing how this unfold. It reminds me a bit of the Maid Cafe lessons. As to 虎畑タイガーさん : “お金が必要なの?” Just who is this guy ?!?
I have a question : is it common in Japan, but also in other countries, to have a bank book with your regular bank account at regular banks ? We only get those for savings accounts ….
のり says:
June 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
プチクレアさん
In Japan, it’s very common to have a bank book with a regular account. And we put it into ATM to update it and check the record of money we receive and spend.
BTW, his name is not タイガー(tiger). It’s 大河（タイガ, Taiga）He is a lovable character, isn’t he?
Phil says:
June 6th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
A useful lesson to figure out what people are saying in customer service situations. Staff at shops and restaurants are always so polite and unless you know the honorific or humble forms you will have a hard time knowing what they are saying.
So far I have not really been in a situation where I had to use these terms, my life is pretty casual so I have no clue when I will use it… I guess I could use it in a sarcastic way ^_- hahaha
But I think it’s really important to be able to recognize them when someone says them to you!
Eric says:
June 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
very useful lesson, and should be handy when I start living in Japan next year
thanks again JPOD Team 
エミリー says:
June 7th, 2008 at 2:00 am
I want to go to school in Japan for art, so I’ll really need this series! Thanks guys! 
Ｓｉｎｄｙシンディー says:
June 7th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Marky-san!
Welcome back to United States of America, please be careful because I had a bad dream about you so watch out! 
S_R_C
Mayumi says:
June 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
About the name of “Taiga”, some people name their son as 大河 or 大雅(taiga) because they are huge fan of 阪神タイガース which is one of the Japanese baseball teams in the Central League.
6demonai says:
June 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Great lesson! The explainations of humble and honorific forms of shimasu were clear and easy to understand.
rion says:
June 10th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Thank you. This type of lesson is extremely useful for people living in Japan. Keep up the great work.
マーキースター says:
June 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
>>>please be careful because I had a bad dream about you so watch out!
sindyさん、what happened in the dream?
did i get hit by a mama-chari?
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Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) |
Grammar: go , nasaru, o | Function: making a deposit, opening a bank account | Topic: bank account, banks, hosts, money | Politeness Level: casual, honorific, Humble, Polite
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