"Hi" in Japanese in 7 Different Situations! (Not Konnichiwa)

[Music] today in this video you are going to learn how to say hi oh hi in japanese uh sayaka isn't it just konnichiwa if you thought that this video is for you because konnichiwa is not quite the same as hai in japanese and how do we say hi well to be honest there's no high in japanese so you want to know what you say when you meet someone in different situations so i'm gonna divide this video into seven different topics like situation wise and believe me they could be all translated as hi at subtitles yeah if you want to sound like a native speaker this video is a must watch with that being said let's get this started okay let's start from the very basic phrases in japanese okay the first situation is in the morning in the morning we say ohayo gozaimasu good morning is a formal way to say good morning an informal way is ohayou ohio ohio ohio and i've already explained who to use formal speech with who to use informal speech with in my last video 10 facts about japanese language but i'm gonna quickly explain that again so formal speech is used when we speak to someone older stranger and people of higher status an informal speech is used to summon younger friends and family members now back to the phrase if you read hiragana there's o but we never pronounce it like ohayou it's more like ohayou when o and you are next to each other in this order it's more like oh oh so ohayou and same for the formal language and notice the actions when we say ohayo gozaimasu we don't really wave our hands we just bow so practice ohayo gozaimasu okay you don't have to go like this just like ohayo gozaimasu just like a nodding type of bao and then when you say ohio to your friends or family you can say oh no depending on the situation if it's home you'll be like second situation is during the day during the day we say konnichiwa hello good afternoon konnichiwa and as i said this is not quite the same as high because you can't really use that in the morning in the morning as we just learned it's ohio ohio and after around 12 p.m i would say there's no specific timeline but around 12 pm you can start saying konnichiwa and until it gets dark outside it actually depends on the country because i know it gets dark really late in some other countries but in japan the sunset is around like 5 to 7 pm depending on the season so around that time we switch from konichiwa to another phrase that we're gonna learn later on and if you read hiragana this va is spelled with hiragana right this ha is what we call a particle which is one of many function words we have and when it's a particle we pronounce this as and it means as for and konnichi means today in old japanese in modern japanese we say kyo and in the past people used to agree to each other saying as for today how are you but gradually as the language changes we only kept the first part konnichiwa as a greeting and konnichiwa we never use this to friends if i say konnichiwa to my friends they'll be like what do you want you're in a good mood what happened something like that so don't use it to your friends and you might wonder so what is the informal way to say konnichiwa there's no konnichiwa is just formal and only formal okay let's practice konnichiwa konichiwa third situation is in the evening we say good evening again this is the formal and only formal way there's no informal way to say good evening in japanese so again we don't really use this to your friends and also if you notice the spelling well it's spelled with hiraganawa yes yes right it's the same reason this ha is a particle and kombam means tonight in japanese and we still use konban so let's practice good job no hand waving so you've just learned three basic phrases to create someone from here you're gonna sound more like native speakers and you're not gonna learn them from textbooks casual ways to say hi hello to your friends okay fourth situation is meeting your friends and we say ah name a name just that okay so say i just met jim so i would go or a i if i'm meeting i a i it's just and we laughed saying uh before any phrases we could actually add ah before like it gives like a surprising nuance to the phrases we're not really surprised but it's like a cushion word you know what i mean you could also use yahoo yahoo actually used to be a sign word in the mountain so yahoo and then it echoes you are letting other people know where you're at in the mountain but gradually it became uh you know greeting i would say and we go just like but i would say yahoo is used by girls mostly and also used in text when you start texting someone and you want to say hey blah blah blah you say yahoo and then start other conversation and okay so now you're wondering how guys would greet each other right let's wait if you're a guy you can greet like oh yo it's just a sound but and they are all like yo yo like same as japanese yo okay next situation is when you meet someone for the first time in a while we say [Music] this is a formal way as you could see that i was bowing and informal way is hisashi budi he says your body and in english you might go like oh hey long time no see you have the hay part or maybe you could say hi before you say long time no see but we just don't have that if we were to say something before hisashibori it would be hisashimuri or maybe ah sayaka hisashiburi so hisashiburi when you meet someone for the first time in a while okay next situation i'm going to rely on the explanation because it's lost in translation but when we go to someone's house as a guest there's a specific word we say as high odamashimas as you open the door ojamashimasu or maybe ojamashimasu in japan there's a sliding door as well and ojamashimasu i will try to explain this as much as i can okay jama means obstructions or interruptions and shimasu means to do it doesn't really mean i'm going to interrupt you it comes from the feeling like i know it's bothering for me to come into your house but forgive me i'm coming in okay i learned to say this as a polite gesture from my parents this is a formal speech actually but i still use this when i visit my friend's house it's nice to be polite to your friends as well right oh this is not about japanese language but a culture if you are visiting someone's house as a guest don't forget to bring some gifts and usually these are snacks and the go-to gift is snacks or sweets that are of higher quality than convenience stores or supermarket so you can get them from somewhere like sweet shop cake shop in your neighborhood or department stores if the owner of the house like alcohol for example you could bring bottle of wine that would be fine too or beer but if you know the person well last one is again lost in translation by japanese people use this phrase a lot any time of the day so i'm gonna include this phrase in this video which is which is infomo and you need to be really careful with this phrase so i'm gonna try to explain as much as possible but means tiredness and the closest translation would be i would say you've got to be tired but it doesn't mean like oh you got to be tired so please rest or something it's a world of appreciation and you can show your understanding towards the person or you've worked really hard or you're coming after work something like that and in like subtitles it's usually translated as good job good work but okay in this video we are learning how to say hi in japanese right let me focus on that part of this phrase hi ots people nowadays are using oscare as a greeting and actually there's a lot of discussion going on about otskare as a greeting and there might be a understanding gap by generations you know some people just use the word at any time of the day even in the morning they would say oscar but others might feel strange or sometimes feel it kind of like careless what i mean by careless is oh i'm just chilling here today and i'm not tired but why are you saying otskaret to me something like that it really depends but many people use it i personally use otskare to friends when i know the friend is coming after work or running some errands but i wouldn't say in the morning because i if i know that's the first plan of the day for me and them i would just go oh no i don't bow uh or someone a name so best advice i could give here would be to observe people around you you want to start using other phrases to say hi and then also what they say as a hi every time you meet them okay that was it for this video i hope this was helpful and you gonna sound more like native speakers if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't already please hit the subscribe button and turn on the notification bell if you don't want to miss any of my of any of my video i always stutter here okay so i will see you in the next video [Music] you

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Length: 14min 2sec (842 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 13 2021