Learn English: social etiquette

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#12 Stop calling your Mom "Okaasan"! 🛑 | Japanese Family Words (N5) #podcast #learning #japan
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#12 Stop calling your Mom "Okaasan"! 🛑 | Japanese Family Words (N5) #podcast #learning #japan

Welcome to Lesson 12 of our Beginner Japanese series! Today, we are learning a very important cultural topic: The Family

familysocial etiquettehonorifics

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Key Vocabulary in “social etiquette”

うち (Uchi)Inside, in-group (family, company, etc.)
Noun
お母さん (Okaasan)Mother (honorific, used for someone else's mother or to address one's own mother)
Noun
そと (Soto)Outside, out-group (strangers, other companies)
Noun
家族 (Kazoku)Family
Noun
言葉 (Kotoba)Word, language
Noun
自分 (Jibun)Oneself
Noun
失礼 (Shitsurei)Rude, impolite
Na-Adjective
相手 (Aite)The other person, partner
Noun
丁寧 (Teinei)Polite
Na-Adjective
母 (Haha)Mother (humble, used for one's own mother when speaking to others)
Noun

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