Learn Japanese Greetings FAST! Complete Japanese Course for Beginners (Lesson 3)

みなさん、日本語コースへようこそ。 Hello and welcome to your third lesson of the Japanese for Beginners course. This is your teacher, Rosie, and let's get started. So in today's lesson, we will learn about greetings or 挨拶 in Japanese. So let's get started. The first one you probably have heard of it in movies or in anime and it means hello or good afternoon. So it will sound like this. And the most important thing here is that we have and に. So we have double N. And please don't skip it because if you skip this N, then it will sound like this. But it's quite important for people to hear this part as well. Okay, very good. Let's move on to introducing ourselves. If we want to introduce ourselves, we could say like this. 名前 means name. So here you can insert your name. I will use my name as an example. I am Rosie. 私 means I or me. は is a particle which defines our topic and we would translate this as as for me. I am Rosie. And this means is or am. So one more time. Very good. Another way to introduce ourselves is to say My name is. So 私の means my. 名前 means name. Here we insert our name into this 名前 in brackets and then this means is. So my name is. Let's try one more time. You can try to save a sentence with inserting your name here. I will give you five seconds to try it. How did it go? Was it all good? Great. Then let's move on. How can we ask what's your name? What's your name? We would ask it like this. お名前は何ですか? Very good. So 名前 means name. お is a honorific particle. So if we're talking about someone else's name, we're asking someone else's name. We want to make it sound very polite. So we add お before 名前. お名前は何ですか? 何 means what. This means is and か is a question marker. So what is your name? お名前は何ですか? Very good. Now when we want to say nice to meet you, there are two ways in Japanese to say nice to meet you. Okay. So the first one is はじめまして. Very good. And the second one is よろしくお願いします. Although this one ends in す, we don't say おねがいします. We say おねがいします. So as if the う disappears. Okay. So how these two nice to meet you are different? Well はじめまして is the first word that we would say when we're meeting someone for the first time. We wouldn't say like hello, good morning, good afternoon. We would say はじめまして. Nice to meet you. はじめ means beginning, to start something in Japanese. So it means that we're starting something. We're meeting for the first time. Okay. Very good. And after asking for someone's name, after replying what's our name, where we are from, at the very end we would say よろしくお願いします. It's nice to meet you. Please treat me favorably. Okay. So はじめまして will go at the beginning of our introduction. And よろしくお願いします would go at the very end. Very good. Now 練習. 練習 means practice. So the first thing we would say when we're meeting someone would be はじめまして. Now you can try. How did it go? Good. The second thing that we could say お名前は何ですか? What's your name? And the third thing would be introducing ourselves. 私の名前はリオです。 My name is Rio. So here, let's take a look. When we say はじめまして, usually the other person will reply はじめまして as well. And then one of you will ask お名前は何ですか? What's your name? And then the other person will reply and then ask the same question お名前は何ですか? And then you will reply your name. 私の名前はリオです。 Very good. Now this is how this conversation would look like, okay? I will read the black. I will read the black dialogue and you will read the red one. So we will go like this. I will say this word and then you will say this one. I will say this one. And you'll say this one. And then I'll say this one. And you'll say this one, okay? Let's go. Very good. So here I said nice to meet you. You said nice to meet you. I introduce myself without waiting for someone to ask for my name. And then you introduce yourself as well right away. And then I said nice to meet you again. And you said nice to meet you again. Very good. Do you want to try one more time but this time you would be the black one? All right. So you will begin and I will continue, okay? Let's go. 私はタケシです。 Very good job. All right. Let's move forward. Now, I will be black one and you will be red one, okay? Let's try this out. Very good. Now, let's take a look at this dialogue. I said nice to meet you. My name is Rio. Nice to meet you again. And then you said nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, okay? But then you didn't mention your name. And sometimes that happens if there are like many people, like five people meeting for the first time, you know. So then I ask you, What's your name? And then you reply to me. My name is Takahashi. Very good. Let's move on. How to say good morning in Japanese. So this is an informal way to say good morning. おはよう。 A more formal way of saying good morning is おはようございます。 So we add ございます to make it more formal. If we're saying おはようございます, we can say it to anyone older than us, to people that we don't know so well. But おはよう, only this part, we can say only to people that are very close to us, our family members or friends, okay? So again, good afternoon. Good evening would be こんばんは。 So although here, this is hiragana は, but sometimes we pronounce it as わ. Good night in an informal way would be Good night in a formal way would be おやすみなさい。 Very good. Long time no see. So when we say it, we say it very fast like but slowly it would sound like this. So if you know someone really well, but if you don't know someone that well, or they're older than you or higher in status, you can say Very good. Now how would we ask, how are you? お元気ですか? So 元気 in Japanese means healthy, energetic, full of energy, or is a honorific particle. And this means is our cars question marker. So how are you would be If you want to reply that you are fine or good, you can say And if you want to ask and you and yourself, you can insert the name here and then say So さん is a prefix that we add after someone's name to make it more respectful like Okay, so we always need to add it after someone else's name. And then So let's say I want to ask And how about Rio? I would say So I tell the person's name and then I add Because saying just and you would be very, very rude and impolite in Japanese. All right, so now it's practice. Let's do I will be black and you will be red. Let's go. Bさんは Very good. So what we talked about here, I said And then you said And then I replied Oh, yes, I'm good. And you So like B is like presumably someone's name. And then you replied Very good. Now let's switch roles. I will be red and you will be black. Okay, let's go. お久しぶり And now let's switch roles. Very good. Now how to say goodbye in Japanese. I know that a lot of people have heard this way of saying goodbye in movies and TV and etc. And how we pronounce it is It means goodbye. But Japanese people wouldn't say this very often. Like they wouldn't say it among friends or family members because It sounds like you're not going to see someone ever again. It's like goodbye forever. So it's useful knowing it, but I wouldn't use it because it's a bit weird. Usually people say like Like in the English way, right? Or the most commonly used phrases are See you later. And we have a lot of them. So see you can be It's very informal. It's like among friends and you're like Or Now if you want to say to someone see you tomorrow, you can say また means again. あした means tomorrow. So See you tomorrow. Another way to say see you can be And I really like using this one. And there's another one. See you later. And see you later would be あと means later. また means again. So again later. Means see you later. Very good. Now let's review what we have learned today. わたしは老人です。 So here and here you can just insert your name when you're reviewing, okay? おはようございます。 はじめまして。 こんばんは。 お久しぶりです。 お元気ですか。 元気です。 さようなら。 ばいばい。 またね。 Good job on your review. Now let's practice a little bit more, okay? So I will be gray and I will give you some time to ask me a question before I start replying my next answer, okay? So first of all I will go here. Good. So if you reply to me that's very good. Now what question would you ask? So I would reply like this. If you asked What's your name? That's perfect. And then I would reply My name is Hannah. And then I would say And you can reply also Very good. Now let's practice like this. I will be red and you will be black. Let's go. Very good. Now let's analyze what we have talked about here. So I said nice to meet you and you replied as well nice to meet you. Then I said What's your name? And then you replied And then I replied Okay, so it's like me checking if I got their name right. And then I said Nice to meet you. And you replied as well Okay, let's try out this dialogue. I will be red and you will be black. Let's go. Very good. So I said And you said How are you? And I said And how about you, Yuiko? And you replied You worked so hard. And you have finished your lesson about greeting. So now you will be able to greet in Japanese. I'm so proud of you. Congratulations. And I will see you in our next lesson.