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Learn Japanese travel phrases with Japanese Survival Phrases! A little Japanese can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling to Japan for business or pleasure, these phrases will help make your trip much more pleasant and meaningful!

Today, we’ll go over a greeting you’ll hear whenever you enter a business establishment. You’ll hear this phrase being said in unison at restaurants and stores all the time. What does it mean? Stay tuned to find out. To learn more about Japanese customs and phrases, be sure to comb through Japanese Survival Phrases. When you do, leave us a post!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Survival Phrases Season 2 . 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.

11 Responses to “Survival Phrases S2 #11 - Business Greetings - Welcome!”

JapanesePod101.com says:

Hi everyone, If you have been to Japan, you have surely heard the phrase いらっしゃいませ!

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nukeu666 says:

From what I read, one is not expected to greet back when entering a store…true?

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Jessi says:

Nukeu666さん,
That’s right! You don’t have to say or do anything. If it feels weird to just ignore it (I feel that way sometimes!) you can nod slightly to acknowledge them. :smile:

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Jason says:

In the U.S. store employees usually only greet you if it’s a fairly small place. Though I guess they kindof do that at Walmart too. The whole random enthusiastic greeting from a senior citizen as soon as you walk in the store along with the offered shopping cart so that you can buy more stuff. Also, this one Ice Cream chain that is around here Cold Stone they have to sing to you if you leave them a tip. :cool:

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Jessi says:

Jasonさん,
They are some Cold Stone Creamery locations in Japan too now, and they also sing! In English, even! :mrgreen: I think they sing when you leave a tip or when a certain kind of ice cream is ordered.

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Tess says:

When I heard いらっしゃいませ! for the first time when I was in Japan 3 years ago I got the fright of my life. All these people yelling at me; I wondered what I’d done wrong (I hadn’t begun studying Japanese back then). I always used to smile and say hello in English. I wish I’d known what it was all about! Tess

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Jessi says:

Tessさん,
:lol: I can imagine not knowing any Japanese would make that first encounter pretty startling!

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Raymasaki says:

いらっしゃいませ is a great phrase.
its funny But I thought of saying tadaima! when i walk in a place to make myself look like a Beginner Japanese speaker, to sound funny & cute, But then ive seen it on some dramas where they do sometimes say Tadaima when returning to a Place visited Often/Daily.

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Mayumi says:

Raymasaki-san,
If you visit very often to a place and people of that place are waiting for you to come, you could say “tadaima.” That sounds really friendly to people there. :wink: :kokoro:

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Yuki says:

Tess-san,

I think it should be the shop clerks said you “genki na irasshai mase”.
Some shops give you the vigor impression, not in like elegant place such as GUCCI, CHANEL….
But actually when they say that in genki, we can’t really hear what they are saying :lol: :lol:
It sounds like “?O#=#))%)$)($&!!!! :hachimaki:

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Gomashio says:

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