Japanese Survival Phrases
If you are considering learning a new Language, Japanese is a great choice. The language is really fun to learn and not that difficult to start speaking straight away.
In fact I am going to teach you some of the most useful Japanese Phrases that will help you survive in Japan! This lesson is just a basic introduction to see if you think you would like to learn Japanese. However if you want my recommendation for the best Japanese courses and some free lessons then you can find them here: Japanese Language Course
Let’s get into shall we… The word for Japan in ‘Nihon’ and the word ‘go’ is for language, so ‘Nihon go’ become Japanese, as in the language. Next we have the particle ‘wa’ which is telling us what the topic of the sentence is, and in this case it’s Japanese. Then we have the verb (doing word) which is ‘wakarimasen’ and is in the negative from the verb understand which is ‘wakarimasu’. You see with Japanese the verbs change if you want to say the negative of the verb, and you simply add ‘masen’ on the end. If you want further information on verbs then you can I have outlined them in more detail here:
This next phrases will help you if you know a little Japanese but just can’t seem to keep up with the pace!
“Please speak slowly”
“Yukkuri hanashi te kudasai”
The first word ‘Yukkuri’ means ‘slowly’ and is an adverb, that is describing the verb to speak, which is ‘Hanashi’. Then you have the word ‘Kudasai’ which means please when making a request.
I hope that you won’t need this next phrase that often but just in case…
“I am lost”
“Mayotte shimai mashita”
The logical thing to say if you are lost is:
“Can you help me?”
“Tetsudatte Karimasu ka”
Well let’s take a look at one final survival phrase that will be handy to learn:
“where is the station?”
“Eki wa doko desu ka”
The word for station is ‘Eki’ and it is once followed by the particle ‘wa’. Then we have ‘Doko’ which means ‘where’ and finally we have the verb ‘desu’ which means ‘is’ and the particle ‘ka’ which is called the interrogative particel and turns the sentence into a question.
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