how much is this it's probably one of the best words you can know when you're over in japan
what's up internet Dyce Quirk here and today we're going to be going over what i believe are the 10
most important phrases for surviving your trip to japan so let's not waste time and let's get to it
now before we get started i have one quick disclaimer japan is one of those countries
where you can go and visit and not know any of the native language and you could still have a load of
fun as well as get a lot done honestly if you know a little bit of english there's been more and more
signage being put up in english as well as more and more businesses becoming just slightly more
english friendly and a lot of the people over in japan are incredibly helpful and so if they
see that you're struggling with something they're going to try to help you out and if you actually
know a little bit of japanese and you try to do that they're going to try to help you out even
more because they see that you appreciate their culture and that you're putting out an effort but
if you do know some japanese if you do learn a couple of these phrases
then it's number one going to help you relieve just a little bit of that stress it's going to
avoid some awkward situations and it's also going to help you show your appreciation for the culture
and everything over in japan and so people are going to be even more likely
to help you out if they see that you really care about this culture
so that's why we have this video where you can learn the at least what i believe 10 most
important phrases to know to survive your trip to japan so let's start with phrase number one
which essentially translates to where is the toilet or where is the restroom and at least in my
experience most bathrooms and restrooms are really well labeled and so it shouldn't be too hard to
find them but if i was in a situation where i really had to go and i couldn't find the bathroom
i'd much rather know how to say as opposed to having to act it out in a game of charades
that wouldn't be fun this flashback has been removed because it was straight up embarrassing
avoid embarrassing yourself by learning the phrase also if you're worried that you might
actually find the bathroom but then not know which one's for men and which ones for women
don't worry they're usually pretty well labeled but just in case here is the kanji for men
and here's the kanji for women uh again they'll have the natural like stick figure and all that
good stuff most of the time so you shouldn't have to worry but just in case there's those kanji
next phrase number two and this could actually be more like uh
words okay it's actually three words that we're going to use and that is correct
now "kore" translates to this and it talks about something that's next to
the speaker "sore" translates to that and it's talking about something that's next to
the listener and then there's "are" which means that over there and it refers to something that's
not next to the speaker or the listener but instead is something further out and
these three words are just incredibly useful for identifying things and this with a point
like if you point at something can be very useful imagine you're inside of a place where
you want to buy something but it's inside of a container so you can just call it and the worker
inside of the place they'll have a much easier time just identifying what you want to buy correct
if it's behind the counter and it's right next to the person uh they can put their hand over it and
yeah that's it okay but anywho uh these words are just incredibly useful in general and then also
when you learn how to put them in basic very basic sentences it just opens up so many opportunities
for you so again it's core sore and are let's move on to the next one phrase number three ikura
desuka? it basically translates to how much is it and this is referring specifically to pricing
now i just assume if you're going to put out all of the money to travel all the way over to japan
you're probably not going to go over there and choose not to buy anything in fact i bet you're
going to buy a lot of stuff and so you want to avoid that weird situation where you just wanted
to know the price on an item but they think that you want to let's look around here oh look at that
oh that looks delicious but no price tag oh i'll just ask hey sir sir i have a question
oh shoot doesn't look like he can speak any english um do you speak any english
how much does this cost i don't know huh i don't know
kore
no no no
yeah why not try to avoid that awkward situation and instead just learn how to say ikuradesuka
and if you want to take it a step further you can use those phrases i taught you just a moment ago
kore sore and are for example all you would have to do is go kore and then put
a particle which in japanese is just something that marks different types of words in a sentence
so you would use wa which is korewa that marks this as the subject of the sentence so korewa
how much is this and this is the subject of the sentence so you could do that for any of them like
but yeah definitely a good thing to learn um you could put those two together if you
want or you could just say ikuradesuka and point at it next phrase number four
domo arigato gozaimasu and this might sound just a little bit familiar
yeah i never really was that great with music but domo arigato gosemas translates to thank you very
much and domo arigato translates to thank you it's just a little bit less polite or you could just
say domo but that is kind of less polite than even domo arigato or tomo arigato gozaimasu so i would
recommend just trying to stick with domo origato or domo origato gosamas and phrase number five
sumimasen now sumimasen is probably one of the most useful words on this entire list and that's
because it'll not only be the word that you hear the most but probably the word you'll use the most
it just has so many different uses first off it could be used for if a couple people are in your
way and you're trying to walk by to get their attention and also to let them know that you're
trying to get through just zoom us in and they'll notice you and then they might move uh move out of
your way there's also sumimasen for ordering your food at a restaurant essentially unlike
in america where you would sit back and just kind of wait for the waiters to come to you
you would actually raise your hand in the air like this and go sumyasin and that would give
the waiters a cue to come to your table um so that is another use and then also sumimasen can
be used for a general light apology uh like if you're in the train and you bump into somebody
or something like that you know just a very light apology if you had to apologize for something
more deeply like you did something actually mean to someone uh you would say gomez
i'm sorry whereas sumimasen is excuse me so definitely remember sumasen it's probably one
of the best words you can know when you're over in japan survival phrase number six petsubetsu
now betsubetsu is probably a word that you haven't heard from a lot of other videos and that might be
because i'm cheap i don't know but betsubetsu translates to split the check and if you're
traveling with friends then this is an incredibly useful word to know because instead of all of you
guys pulling up your money every single time and having to split it yourself um nine times out of
ten when you go to a japanese restaurant you take the receipt and you bring it to a cash register
and so when you bring it to the cash register you just tell them betsubetsu and they'll split it out
for you so yeah let me know in the comments do you think i'm cheap or do you think that uh you know
that's a good phrase to know phrase number seven is tosca kudasai which translates to please help
oh
wow
what we've gotten better since then you were just hungry weren't you you were just hungry well your
use of tosca takeout aside doesn't necessarily have to be a life or death situation like mine
it could be used for just anything as long as the people can see what you need help with
then it should get the point across and you should be able to find the help that you need
phrase number eight which is more like two to three words is genkin
now these translate to genkin being cash caudo being card and kuredito being credit card and
most of the time you could just say call and they'll understand it's either credit card or
debit card but knowing these three words is going to help you tremendously in saving a lot of time
and what i mean by that is like when i was in japan recently i went to a festival and at the
festival there were two lines okay one was to buy tickets but only using cash and the other
one was only using card so for me i only had cash on me and i didn't know which line to get into
so i was like halfway through the line by the time i found out oh shoot this is the card line or the
credit card line so just knowing genkin and kado will probably get you through things a lot faster
for example if you end up in my situation you might be able to point at the line and go
genkin and they'll tell you uh whether or not it's a card based line or a cash based line
so definitely uh check out those words and try to memorize them and phrase number nine
this translates to one more time please and typically i would use
it whenever i needed someone to repeat something that they said
maybe they just said it allowed too quietly or maybe they said something just way too
fast and i couldn't understand them so then i would say soon as in uh excuse me
repeat that one more time please and this phrase also works in other areas that you might expect
it to work out but typically i would just use it for when i needed someone to repeat something and
especially if they try to speak to you in english
just knowing that one little phrase might help you out and trying to
hear them or understand what they're saying so definitely a good one to hold on to and phrase
number 10 which i believe that you've probably heard before maybe multiple times is height
see height translates to yes and translates to no so having the words yes and no are incredibly
useful in any language let alone japanese but with some of the other words that you've
already learned in this video it can be incredibly useful such as kore sore and are which is one of
the first things we learned if you're trying to point something out to a person in a shop
and let's say the shop owner picks up an item you could say sorry sorry that that and then they pick
up another item hi hi you know they got the right item um yes and no will help you out so much but
i do have one more word that i want to share with you and it's an honorable mention and this
honorable mention is just a word that you won't use often you probably won't even hear it one
time when you're in japan but when you need to use it this is a very important word so let's check it
out and the honorable mention word is bakuhatsu oshimas pakuhatsu oshimasu translates to uh
will explode or explodes now again this is a word that you probably won't have to use
most of your trips in japan hopefully all of your trips in japan but if something's about to
explode i want to know how to say this is going to explode or this explodes you know so that people
will stay away from you um obviously if you're running around with something that explodes you
don't want to have to tell every single person through a charades act boom you know that's they
might kind of get the idea but i don't know you know so that's something i would definitely just
want to know keep that in your back pocket it's just a cool word to make sure that
if you have to use it you know how to like personally that's that's pretty important to
me you know knowing how to say this explodes so i learned it in six or seven other languages uh
oh oh cairo are you hungry okay okay let's get you some food cairo so you want your food that's what
you want oh my goodness is that is that what you want is that what you want okay perfect let's get
you some food over here we're gonna go inside of here and uh see that's where his food is
that's his food right there uh-huh let's open this up and uh let's just
oh no
okay
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