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SurvivalPhrases.com - Learn essential travel phrases, cultural insights and travel tips in 12 languages.Need to convert dollars to yen? Coins to bills? Today we’ll show you how to convert any kind of currency to something else. If you’re traveling to Japan to living in Japan, this series is critical to your financial transactions. And we still have 1 more next week!
For our Japanese grammar point, we’ll show you how to create honorific noun phrases in Japanese the easy way!

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!

Start Learning Japanese at JapanesePod101.com! Fabrizio lost his wallet (seems he loses lots of things!) so he goes to ask a keisatsukan (police officer) about it. We’ll introduce o- and go-, two important honorific prefixes. We’ll also review some verb conjugation. If you’re wasureppoi (person who tends to lose things), then this will be an important lesson for you! After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S2) | 9 Comments »
Grammar: go , o | Function: changing coins into bills, changing currency, changing money | Topic: ATM, bank account, banks, currency, currency exchange, hosts, money | Politeness Level: casual, honorific, Polite
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