Tag: guide
All the articles with the tag "guide".
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Japanese Honorifics Chart: -san, -sama, -kun, -chan, and Beyond
A scannable Japanese honorifics chart — 12 suffixes at a glance, plus confusion-pair tables, a workplace decision matrix, anime-vs-real-life ratings, and the five mistakes non-natives make most often.
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Japanese Meeting Phrases: 50 Examples from Opening to Follow-Up
50 Japanese meeting phrases at A/B/C politeness levels — pre-meeting prep, opening, discussion, decision, closing, follow-up, plus Zoom and Teams expressions.
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Sonkeigo vs Kenjougo: The 3-Second 'Who's the Subject?' Test
Stuck on whether to say mairu or irassharu? A 3-step decision flow, 10 high-frequency verbs side by side, the uchi-soto inversion that breaks most learners, and 5 wrong-to-right fixes — everything you need to stop confusing sonkeigo and kenjougo at work.
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Best Way to Learn Keigo: A 90-Day, 3-Stage Roadmap
A 30-second self-diagnostic, a 90-day stage-by-stage plan, and a 6-method comparison for non-natives who know what keigo is but freeze when they need it at work.
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How to Write a Japanese Business Email: 8 Steps from Subject to Signature
A step-by-step process for writing a Japanese business email from scratch — subject, TO/CC/BCC, addressee, greeting, body, and signature — with the A/B/C politeness rule for every step plus a pre-send checklist.
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Japanese for IT Professionals: A Working Engineer's Guide
Practical Japanese for software engineers in Japan — phrases for standups, PR reviews, sprint planning, demos, retros, and client calls, plus a week-1 survival deck and a JLPT-to-task ladder. Two-thirds of what vocab lists never tell you.
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8 Keigo Mistakes Non-Natives Make — and Which to Fix First
Not all keigo mistakes are equal. We rank the 8 errors non-natives make most by severity (Tier 1–3), pair each with what to say instead, and show which mistakes are fatal with clients vs. forgivable with peers.
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Japanese Business Email Templates: 8 Scenarios for Internal and Client-Facing Use
Eight copy-paste Japanese business email templates — apology, meeting request, follow-up, first contact, and more — tagged for internal vs. client-facing use. Ship today's email without offending anyone.
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Japanese Business Self-Introduction: 8 Templates for Chorei, Client Visits, and Interviews
Eight copy-paste Japanese business self-introduction templates — first-day chorei, internal team intro, client meeting, interview, and Zoom — tagged for internal vs. client-facing use, with time-budgeted scripts and the meishi-exchange lines no one teaches.
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Keigo Guide: The A/B/C Framework for Workplace Japanese
Stop guessing which politeness level to use at work. Learn keigo through a simple A/B/C framework, with 10 office scenarios, a verb cheat sheet, and the 4 mistakes non-natives make most.