Lesson 2: Japanese Greetings and Phrases (aisatsu)

Most Japanese does'nt know about English so it would be very useful to know how to speak a bit of basic nihonggo. 
Todays lesson is about Japanese Aisatsu (Japanese Greetings)
These Phrases are commonly used in their everyday lives and some various greeting used according to situation, condition or season but the daily greetings are simple.
Lets learn and use it today

Lesson Two: Japanese Greetings

• ohayoo gozaimasu ---  Good morning
• konnichiwa ---  Good afternoon/day
• konbanwa ---  Good evening
• oyasuminasai ---  Good night
• Ja mata---  See you, bye
• Mata Ashita ---  See you tomorrow
• Sayoonara ---  Good Bye
• Hisashiburi---  Long time no see
• Hajimemashite ---  How do you do, Pleased to see you. To the person you meet for the  first time.
• O genki desu ka ---  How are you? usually said to the person you didnt see often. But for the people you met everyday, ohayoo, konnichiwa etc are most commonly used.

Listed below are samples of Phrases when it comes to weather, conditions, etc

• Atsui desu ne ---  Its hot, Isnt it?
• Samui desu ne--- Its cold, Isnt it?
• Ii tenki desu ne--  Its a fine day , Isnt it
• kumori desu ne--- Its cloudy, Isnt it?
• Ame ga futte imasu ne--- Its raining, Isnt it?

Listed below are samples of greetings or phrases when it comes to situations etc.

• Gomenasai ---  Im sorry, casual expression of apology. 
• Sumimasen ---  Excuse me, Sorry
• Itte kimasu--- Said when you go out/leave (from your house or someones house). 　Ittekimasu is actually made up of two parts, itte (I’m going) and kimasu (I will come). Therefore, a more full translation might be “I’m leaving, and I will come back. 
• Itte rasshai --- An answer to ittekimasu.literally means, “Go and come back.” The nuance is that they will come home safely, hence “have a safe trip” is the best English translation. 
• Tadaima ---  Said when you got home. Literally means "Im home"
• Okaeri --- An answer to Tadaima, Literally means "welcome Home"
• O-saki ni shitsurei shimasu--  When you leave office earlier than others
• Otsukaresama deshita---  Thanks for your hard work. Usually said when you finish working all together or when someone else say it you and the feeling is mutual
• ki o tsukete  ---  be careful, or take care, or if someone will go to travel like "have a nice trip"
• Omedetou gozaimasu --- congratulations
• Gambatte! ---  Good luck, Do your best, Try hard

These are just basic nihonggo greetings and theres a lot more as you go along with your studies.

As you've probably noticed, people in Japan also greet each other by bowing. A small head nod is a considered casual and is used when greeting family or friends. When greeting a superior, it is a sign of respect to use a deep, longer bow: roughly a 90-degree bend at the waist. Most Japanese people don't expect foreign travelers to understand bowing etiquette and so will usually accept a nod of the head or a handshake.

Thats all for me today

Sore de wa mata! See you all next time!!!

Lesson 1: Japanese Basic Pronouns " I for watashi and You for Anata"

Learning Japanese is quite interesting and basically needs a lot of time and effort for you to be able to speak the Language well.
On this blog, I want to share some of the basic words (kotoba) I've learned from the time I started to study japanese.
 My objective is to list the most common and important japanese used in daily conversation.
 At the end of the day, I'll make sure that anyone who reads my blog will gain some knowledge and a very rewarding experience on this site.

 With that said, Here we go!

Lesson One: Japanese Pronouns 

 Japanese has a huge variety of personal pronouns, words for "I" and "you"
 I list some of them below:

The words listed above are the common ones.

But these words vary depending on the speaker as what you can see on the table below:

and here are some words used for the "YOU" depending on the situation/speaker

and for the word "WE", please see below

Those are the words commonly used in daily conversation pertaining to the speaker and the listener.

Now how about if Your talking to someone (a third person)  as they would say.

In English we either used the Name of the person we're talking about or we would use the Pronoun as "He and She"

So what is the Japanese term for "He and She"

Basically, The Japanese have no word for she or he like we have in English. 

They usually use the name of the person with a suffix like -san, -kun, or -chan, etc. instead. 

Example: Kimi - san,

                Eiji - kun,

                Masami - chan

But I heard people using  the word "Kare" for He/Him and "Kanojo" for She/Her.

Example:

He is taller than Her

Kare wa Kanojo yori se ga takai desu.

But most often  Kanojo  means girlfriend and kare or kareshi  means boyfriend. 

Example:

I dont have a boyfriend 

Kareshi wa imasen 

Do you have a girlfriend?

Kanojo wa imasu ka?

There are more Pronouns used aside from the one I listed above but as you go along with your studies, You will encounter them one by one.

For now, That's all from me.

Any comments, corrections, suggestions or if you want to add anything under this matter, please feel free to comment below and Lets all Study and Enjoy Japanese.

Sore de wa mata! See you all next time!!!!