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Meeting a Japanese person for the first time? Do you know what to say? Today we’ll learn the basic greetings you should say when meeting a person. We’ll also give you one of the most important and high frequency phrases in the Japanese language: yoroshiku onegai shimasu. We’ll also learn how to make a sentence negative. Lot’s of good stuff packed into this week’s podcast.

Learn how to greet people in Japanese with these useful Japanese expressions



This entry was posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Newbie Season 4 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

19 Responses to “Newbie S4 #4 - How to Greet People in Japanese”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, hajimemashite!!

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Katherine says:

Just to let you know… this lesson (Newbie Lesson 4) is posted under Beginner Lessons… (and so, it’s also under Beginner Lessons in the iTunes feed too)

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Eran says:

Katherine-san: Whoop! Thanks for letting us know. It’s now posted under the correct category.

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capt.strugglebunny says:

I always get つ and す mixed up when spoken. Also, it’s hard to hear the pauses “っ” in words.

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Hiroko says:

capt.strugglebunny san> Yeah, つ and す are sometimes hard to identify with especially in a spoken conversation, and so as small っ sound. I hear for English speakers the hardest Japanese pronunciations are “Rya Ryu Ryo” as in “Ryuugakusei” or “Ryokou” and “Tsukareta”. I’m sure you will learn as you become more familiar with Japanese daily conversations! Ganbatte kudasai :dogeza:

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Eric says:

Good point capt.strugglebunny.

The small tsu generally sounds like either a sharp pause or a quick burst when speaking, but it can easily become nearly inaudible when the conversation is very fast. The best way to get used to it is to listen to the dialogues while reading along with the script.

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Kate says:

After listening to this episode and thinking a lot I finally thought of a similar phrase in English to よろしくお願いします. Cheers. Not in the toasting sense. In British (informal) English ‘cheers’ has a similar (not exactly but similar) meaning.

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maxiewawa says:

はじめまして。*bows*

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Naomi says:

Kate-san

>>In British (informal) English ‘cheers’ has a similar meaning.
そうですか。知りませんでした。ありがとうございました!!!
Sou desuka. Shirimasen deshita. Arigatou gozaimashita!!!
Wow, is that right? I didn’t know that. Thank you so much! :dogeza:

So maybe よろしく!”Yoroshiku.” can be translated as “Cheers!” in British English then.

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James says:

About tongue-twisters: Not only does English have Lori (or Laurie) and Larry, there’s also the (Welsh?) name Rory, and the word that they use for “truck” in England, “lorry”. So how about:

Hey Rory, let’s take Peter Lorre Laurie’s lorry!

“Lorry” even causes trouble for English speakers; “Red lorry, yellow lorry” is a tongue-twister that’s been around a while.

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Michael says:

Hi!

Where is Newbie Lesson #2 - S4? I can’t find it anywhere! If you navigate to “Newbie” from the front page, you only get the older Nihongo Dojo series. In My Feed, I didn’t get the other tracks from lesson #2 (dialog, review, etc.) so I’m searching for them. Lessons 1, 3-4 show up in the category “Newbie lessons (S4), but not lesson #2. 勉強したいです!(can you say that?)

thanks,
m.

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Kate says:

Naomi先生、

For example:
A band performing may introduce their song, say ‘we hope you like it’ and then say ‘cheers’ as if re-affirming their hope for your approval.

That’s as good an example as I could think of but there are probably better ways of showing its use.

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Furiku-sho (thomas) says:

This was my very first lesson.
I liked it a lot.
I would like to subscribe so I can download mp3 to disk and listen to lessons while I drive, and for my mp3 player when waiting at airports.

Thank you

Furiku-sho

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Jessi says:

Furiko-shoさん>
Thanks for the comment! We hope you enjoy the other lessons! :wink:

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laura says:

Dear Eric-san and Naomi-san,
thanks for this great lesson. It was fun :lol: !!! It is much easier to learn.

You both are great actors :wink:

ja ne

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Naomi says:

laura -san
ありがとうございます!Thank you so much for the kind comment!

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Ruben says:

ありがとうございます for the lesson , it really helped me a lot to greet properly :wink:

じゃ、また。

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Naomi says:

Ruben-san
We’re glad to hear that. Good luck on your Japanese study! :razz:

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王凱 says:

初めまして、ロリです。よろしくお願いします。らーりさん。らいじゃありません。ロリです。すみません、ロリはまですか。ハンマじゃないです。私の名前はロリネイラデス。

また、ね

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