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Japanese for your trip to Japan

The phrases you actually need when you land in Tokyo: order, pay, get around and ask for help, with the manners Japanese people appreciate.

This path is built around situations, not grammar. You start with the ten most useful phrases, like すみません (sumimasen) (excuse me, and how you call a waiter) and これをください (kore o kudasai) (this one, please), then move on to restaurants, trains, hotels and the konbini.

Instead of memorizing phrase lists, you practice them in conversations: the character speaks, you answer out loud, and speech recognition checks whether you would be understood. You pass immigration, order at a ramen shop and check in at a hotel, all before your flight.

A conversation from this path

Passport control at the airportThe immigration officer speaks, you answer out loud

pasupōto o misete kudasai.

Your passport, please.

hai, dōzo.

Here you are.

Nihon e wa nani o shi ni kimashita ka.

What is the purpose of your visit to Japan?

kankō desu.

Sightseeing.

dono kurai taizai shimasu ka.

How long will you stay?

nishūkan desu.

Two weeks.

doko ni tomarimasu ka.

Where will you be staying?

Tōkyō no hoteru desu.

At a hotel in Tokyo.

hai, dōzo. yoi tabi o.

Here you go. Have a good trip.

arigatō gozaimasu.

Thank you very much.

What you will be able to do

15 lessons, 1 of them free.

Manners, not just words

In Japan you do not leave a tip, you do not talk on the phone on the train, and you take your shoes off when entering homes and some restaurants. The path explains these things exactly when they matter, so you feel at ease.

The first unit of Japanese for travel is free.

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