Greetings in Japanese and How To Use Them
Greetings is one of the most important things that a language or culture can have to make society function properly. Every time we meet with the people we know on the street, we would always say hello to them and most probably also ask how are they doing at the time. When we meet with important people like clients or higher-ups, we would always use greetings to initiate a conversation with them. In Japanese, they also have greetings depending on the time and the situation just like any other languages. In this post we will discuss several greetings that are important for beginners to know! Time Specific Greetings The first kind of greetings we will discuss in this post is the time-specific greetings. These are the greetings that we use according to the time where the interaction is taking place. In this post we will discuss four of them. Ohayou Gozaimasu /おはようございます The first greetings we will discuss is ohayou Gozaimasu. Ohayou Gozaimasu can roughly be considered as the Japan...