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【Travel】Useful Phrases You Should Know When Travelling to Japan

Updated: Jul 12, 2019

Are you travelling to Japan soon? This post introduce useful websites to learn useful Japanese phrases when travelling to Japan!






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This website has a lot of articles about useful information when you're planning to travel to Japan. In this website, there is this article that shows you 20 useful Japanese phrases with pronunciations. If you're a beginner, it might be hard to use this website since this website is written in Japanese. But if you already know how to read basic Japanese, you can probably understand. In this article, the 1st section is about greetings and 2nd section is about introducing yourself and 3rd section is about asking directions and 4th section is about phrases to use at restaurants and when shopping and 5th section is about phrases to use when you're in trouble. Because there is no English translation for phrases introduced on the article, I'll put it here for you.


【1st Section】

1. Hello

2. Goodbye

3. Yes

4. No

5. Thank you

6. Sorry/excuse me

7. How are you?


【2nd Section】

8. My name is ○○ (e.g. Tanaka Mikiko).

9. What's your name?


【3rd Section】

10. Where is ○○ (e.g. national museum).

11. Does this goes to ○○ (e.g. Asakusa)?

12. Can I walk to ○○ (Tokyo Sky Tree) from here?


【4th Section】

13. How much is it?

14. What is the recommendation?

15. What is this?

16. Is there ○○ (e.g. English menu).

17. Can I get duty free?


【5th Section】

18. Do you understand English?

19. Is there anyone who can understand ○○ (e.g. Chinese)

20. Where is a drug store?


The article: https://matcha-jp.com/jp/2219




This website has 4 categories, Situational Conversations, Core Vocabulary, Communication Tools and Back-up Grammar. Situational Conversations is divided into two categories, sightseeing and homestays and there are 18 useful phrases for sightseeing. It's written in English, so for those who barely know Japanese, I think this website is useful!


Sightseeing & Homestays: https://www.ajalt.org/sj/sit/sit_index.html






 

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