Are you planning to study Japanese in a classroom environment? Perhaps you are taking a class at college. Maybe you have enrolled in night school or your Japanese friends are going to teach you. If so, you’ll need some basic phrases to help you when studying with a Japanese teacher.
When I studied Japanese at university in Japan, the following phrase below and in the video were absolutely essential to me. This was partly because the other students in my school didn’t speak English well and my Japanese teacher enforced a Japanese only speaking environment.
So, I created this video to help you when you get stuck and you don’t understand what’s going on in your Japanese class. My advice would be to listen to and repeat the phrases in this video as many times as you can so you can say them without thinking. Learn these phrases well young Japanese student Jedi, they will serve you well and they definitely helped me when I was studying in university.
Useful Classroom Japanese Phrases
1: すみません ちょっと わかりません
sumimasen chotto wakarimasen
Excuse me I don’t understand
2: もう 一度 言って ください
mō ichido itte kudasai
Please say it again
3: もう 少し ゆっくり 話して いただけますか
mō sukoshi yukkuri hanashite itadakemasu ka
Could you speak a little more slowly please?
4: 茶道 は どういう意味 ですか
sadō wa dōiu imi desu ka
What does “sadō” mean?
5: それは tea ceremony という意味 です
sore wa tea ceremony toiu imi desu
That means tea ceremony
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