Tag: workplace
All the articles with the tag "workplace".
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How to Apologize to Your Boss in Japanese: 8 Scenarios with Email Templates
Stop over-formalizing apologies to your own manager. 8 boss scenarios, the hou-ren-sou report-recovery flow, channel-by-channel wording, and 3 paste-ready email templates.
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How to Refuse Politely in Japanese: 8 Scenarios and How to Spot a Soft No
Stop guessing how to say no without causing offense. 8 refusal scenarios × 3 politeness tiers, paste-ready decline emails, and how to read a soft Japanese no.
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Japanese Business Phrases: What to Learn First, by Use Case
Stuck on where to start with Japanese business phrases? A use-case map: the 20 to learn first, plus the right phrase for greetings, email, meetings, and more.
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How to Say Sorry in Japanese Politely: 8 Scenarios with Email Templates
Stop guessing between gomen and mōshiwake gozaimasen. 8 apology scenarios × 3 politeness tiers, a 5-axis severity score, and 4 paste-ready email templates.
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Japanese Email Phrases: 50 Essentials in 8 Function Categories
A function-indexed phrase dictionary for Japanese business email — 50 frequency-ranked essentials across 8 categories (opening, self-intro, topic, request, apology, acknowledgment, closing, attachment) tagged A/B/C and internal/external. Includes a 5-level acknowledgment comparison, an email vs Slack vs phone translation table, and 6 phrase-level mistakes to retire.
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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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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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10 Polite Japanese Phrases for the Office — Master Them in Your First Week
10 polite Japanese phrases for the office — master them in your first week. Each labelled A/B/C, with a who-says-this-to-whom matrix and 3 mistakes to avoid.