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Hey guys!
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Hi!
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Kim is joining me today
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and today we're gonna go over
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eight useful Japanese phrases
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that you can use when you're here, travelling, in Japan.
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In general, I feel like you can get by with only English,
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Yeah.
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but, when you're visiting another country,
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I think it's very polite
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and, it will help you if you do take the time to learn
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just a few basic phrases.
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So, uhm, we're gonna teach you eight on my channel here, today,
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and then if you wanna head over to Kim's channel,
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she has a video with eight other useful phrases over there.
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Yeah.
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Just a quick note before we get started with the phrases,
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I didn't go into any detail about particles,
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like uh,
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*Japanese on video*
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Uh, just because I find them pretty difficult to explain,
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and they're not really needed when
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you're travelling through Japan
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and you just need simple phrases to
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get yourself through your trip.
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So, I didn't bother explaining them to you guys.
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I may do that in another video, but, again,
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they're not necessary
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so I left them completely out of some of the phrases
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just to keep them as simple as possible,
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and, uh, without them the phrases make
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complete sense
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even though they're not one hundred percent, uh,
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grammatically correct.
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So, yeah, don't worry too much about particles,
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everyone will understand what you're saying
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without them.
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Number one would be "sumimasen".
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If you're on the street,
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and you wanna talk to someone,
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Yeah.
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Uh, you need their help with something,
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You wanna just be like, ah, "sumimasen".
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And it's like "excuse me" in English
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So, it's just a polite way to stop someone on the street.
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Yeah.
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I wouldn't tap them on the shoulder
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I feel like in Japan you can kind of maybe just
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go in front of them a bit,
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and be like ah, "sumimasen"
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and kind of like bow when you're doing it.
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And that's a polite way to get someone's attention.
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So, "sumimasen".
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"Sumimasen"
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"Sumimasen"
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Number two is "doko desu ka", which means
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"where is something".
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So, you can say "resutoran ha doko desu ka",
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which is like, "where's the resturant".
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"Where is the resturant", yeah.
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Or, let's teach them important ones like "eki".
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"eki ha doko desu ka"
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"Station".
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So if you wanna ask where the train station is,
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"eki ha doko desu ka".
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Or, "toire"?
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"Toire", that's an important one.
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"Toilet".
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"Toire ha doko desu ka".
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Oh, one other thing that I think you guys should know
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is "kouban".
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Which is "police box",
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and it's like a small little police station that,
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nearly every town has one,
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so if you have any sort of problem and you wanna find
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the police and ask for their help,
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you can say "kouban ha doko desu ka".
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"Kouban ha doko desu ka".
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And the police in Japan are really friendly,
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They are really friendly.
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They're not intimidating and scary like they are in Canada,
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and probably America.
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Yeah.
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They're really friendly,
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and even if you just wanna ask for directions to somewhere,
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don't be afraid to talk to the police here.
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Yeah.
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They're really great.
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Yeah.
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Okay, I'm sure most of you know this one,
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but number three is "arigatou gozaimasu".
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"Arigatou gozaimasu", "thank you".
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Uhm, I just think it's nice for you to like,
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use a little bit of Japanese.
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and even if you only remember one phrase,
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I feel like "arigatou gozaimasu" is the best one.
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Because you can use it everywhere.
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Yeah, and Japanese people appreciate it when you just
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try to speak Japanese.
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Yeah, like of course they will understand "thank you"
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if you say thank you,
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everyone has a very basic level of English here at least,
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But, yeah, if you try to use their language
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and say it in Japanese, "arigatou gozaimasu",
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I think they'll be really happy that you're putting in the effort.
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Sorry, I'm talking Japanese really fast.
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It's like natural for me,
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But, "arigatou gozaimasu".
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"Arigatou gozaimasu".
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That's a really polite way to say it,
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and you can short it to just like "arigatou",
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"arigatou",
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but if you wanna be polite you should add the "gozaimasu" on the end.
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Number four is something "ikitai desu".
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"Ikitai desu" means "I want to go somewhere", so you add
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something at the front, where you wanna go,
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and then you add "ikitai desu".
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For example,
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"shoppingu mooru",
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So for example, yeah, "shoppingu mooru ni ikitai desu".
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So, "I wanna go to the shopping mall", or
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"resutoran ni ikitai desu", so, "I want to go to the restaurant".
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Or, "eki ni ikitai desu",
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"I want to go to the station".
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So, it's very useful.
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Yeah, so if you're with like a Japanese friend
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and you wanna tell them what you wanna do today,
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you can use this phrase.
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If you go up to someone on the street and say,
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"sumimasen, resutoran ni ikitai desu",
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maybe they'll point you in the direction
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of a good restaurant or something.
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So, yeah, it's a very useful phrase.
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Number five is "arimasu ka".
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"Arimasu ka".
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You're asking if something exists, an inanimate object.
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There's a different way to ask if an animate object exists,
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but I'm not gonna get into that today.
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But if you wanna ask "shoppingu mooru arimasu ka",
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"is there a shopping mall",
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I think it's kind of like,
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insinuated that you want one in this area
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So, you can just
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if you go up to someone and say "shoppingu mooru arimasu ka",
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they're gonna point you in the direction of a shopping mall.
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Or if you're in a store,
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Yeah.
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you could use it in a store.
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Yeah, so say if you want like
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a clothing item
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uhm, or anything that you want,
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say for example,
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"T-shatsu"
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Yeah, so say for example you want a T-shirt
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you can say, "T-shatsu arimasu ka".
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So, "is there a T-shirt"
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and they'll show you if they have a T-shirt.
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Or at a resturant,
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"katsudon arimasu ka",
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"do you have 'katsudon' at this restaurant".
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So, it can be used in so many different places,
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so it's a really useful one.
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Yeah.
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So, number six!
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Ah, this one I've used a lot,
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and it is something "nakushimashita",
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and that means "I've lost something".
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And, uhm, you can use this with different things like,
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say for example, "pasupooto nakishimashita".
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Or, uh, "saifu nakishimashita".
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So, you know, you lost your passport, you lost your wallet.
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So if you want to go to the police station and be like,
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"sumimasen, saifu nakushimashita",
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so, "sorry, I lost my wallet".
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If you think you left it in a certain store or restaurant,
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you can just go there and be like,
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"sumimasen, saifu nakushimashita".
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And, maybe they'll be like, "Oh, have one! Here, we found it!"
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Yeah.
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So, yeah. "Nakushimashita".
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It's very common to lose things when you're travelling
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Yep.
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Keys, uh, passport, wallet...
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key is "kagi",
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passport, "pasupooto",
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Or your phone.
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Uh, phone! That's a good one! "Keitai".
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"Ketai" is a cellular phone.
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Uhm, I think those are the important ones.
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Yeah, those are most of them.
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Yeah.
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Or "kaban", maybe?
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"Kaban", yeah! My bag.
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Yeah.
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"Kaban", backpack or bag.
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They can all be called "kaban".
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Yeah.
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"Kaban nakushimashita".
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Number seven is one you can use when you're entering a store
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and you're not sure if you should take off your shoes or not.
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There are some resturants, or some change rooms,
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or just some areas in stores where you may need
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to take off your shoes.
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so if you're unsure, you can ask "kutsu daijyoubu desu ka".
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"Kutsu" is "shoes" and
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"daijyoubu desu ka" is asking "is it okay".
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So you're just asking really simply,
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"are shoes okay".
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So if you ask them "kutsu daijyoubu desu ka",
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and they're not okay,
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they'll probably be like,
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"ah, dame",
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or like "ah, sumimasen, dame desu"
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or like uh, "nuide kudasai", "please take them off".
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You'll probably be able to tell by their gestures whether it's okay or not,
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but if you're unsure in any situation, just ask
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it's very polite to ask, uhm, if you should be taking your shoes off or not.
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So don't be shy to use that.
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So, the last one is a bit long,
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so I'm gonna break it up for you.
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So the first part is: "nihongo wakarimasen",
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and that means "I don't understand Japanese".
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And then you can say: "eigo dekimasu ka",
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which means "can you speak english".
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So, that's very useful if you can't speak Japanese.
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and you want to tell someone,
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and ask them if they can speak English.
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Right, so you could just go up to people on the street
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if you really need someone that speaks English.
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"Sumimasen, nihongo wakarimasen, eigo dekimasu ka".
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Or even, it could just be "sumimasen, eigo dekimasu ka".
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Yeah, you can use that as well.
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There's been times when I was in Japan,
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and there were times where I really had to use English
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for important things.
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And I couldn't say it in Japanese, so I'd just say,
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"eigo dekimasu ka", and then they would either reply
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"yes" or "no".
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So usually if they can't speak English they'll say,
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"Oh, a little," or something like that, yeah.
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And sometimes, even when they're really good at English,
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they'll still just be like "Ahh, a little!"
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And they're almost fluent.
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They're really modest.
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Yeah, very modest
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But, there are many people who can speak
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a generous amount of English,
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so if you really need English, I think if you search well enough,
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you will be able to find somebody who can help you.
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So, uhm, don't be afraid to try.
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Yeah.
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Alright, so those are eight phrases
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that you can use while you're travelling in Japan.
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Hopefully those are things that can be helpful for you guys,
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and for eight more super helpful phrases