MUST-KNOW Phrases for Life Events (Wedding, Funeral, New Year...)

hey guys today i'm going to teach you super useful phrases you can use on different occasions such as wedding funeral birthday and also phrases to congratulate people on different events this is the phrase you want to say when somebody gets married so in english i think you'd say congratulations on your wedding but in japan getting married and having a wedding are two different things so first you have to register your marriage so you do the paperwork so that's called nuseki nuseki so some people could say gonuseki omedeto gozaimasu or informally nuseki omedeto so usually go to a shia show a city hall and do the paperwork and yeah that's when your surname changes i think as well that's nuseki so when your friend does that you can say nuseki omedeto but you can also say informally when they just do the paperworks before the wedding but on the wedding day you can also congratulate them by saying we would never really say it sounds a little weird is how we say wedding literally marriage ceremony but yeah you don't really congratulate them on the wedding the event itself the party and stuff but rather the marriage so gozaimasu makes it more polite and also you want to put go in front of kekkon uh the honorific prefix to make it more polite and if your friend gets engaged you can say is to get engaged anyway if you do get invited uh make sure to give the bride and the groom koshugi koshugi it's like gift money koshugi and if you are different you are supposed to give them about some em so that's 30 000 yen so about 300 us dollars more or less and if you're their family you have to give them more so in japan you can give them a gift you send them the gift to their house but usually you expect it to give them money that money goes to their wedding funds basically anyway this phrase omedetto omedetto gozaimasu a very important to remember for example if you want to say happy birthday you can say omedetto omedetto instead of go you wanna put o otanjo gotan next congratulations on your graduation you so to graduate and congratulations on entering school he said entering school to enter school if your friend or family finds a job you can say [Music] another word you really want to remember is shukat it's short for shoku getting a job katsudo activities so literally job finding activities but or for short is job hunting to me good luck with your job hunt good luck with your job search instead of gambatte good luck you can also say oh informally i'm rooting for you on your job when your friend has a baby you can say mass means giving birth so you're congratulating the person on giving birth so in english it's more common to say congratulations on your new baby or you say baby uh you don't really say aka omedeto it's not very used [Applause] can be used when you talk to your friends but you can also just say aqueous for short and super common it's very informal so yeah you can only say it to your friends but you say akeome in general it's such a big event so if you see your family like a distant family can be your uncle aunt you tend to say the full phrase because it's a formal event but to your friends you can just say akio man and after akeema omedeto gozaimasu you usually say the following phrase kotoshimo again lost in translation but it's like i'm looking forward to building a relationship so it's lost in translation but it's like i'm looking forward to working with you i'm looking forward to bonding more with you i'm looking forward to doing something with you so the phrase yoroshiku onegai mas is not only used when meeting somebody for the first time but it can be used when you start a new project with your colleague or yeah the new year for the new year yeah anything a group project at school and you wanna say hi to your members yes that's more informal so instead of kotoshimo yoroshiku onegaishimasu it's formal enough for your neighbors your colleagues and your yeah this time family but uh if you want to say this to a client for example you'd probably say itashimasu [Music] so instead of kotoshi uh people would use the word hong toshi to mean this year and it sounds more formal and you know sophisticated i guess like please s so shimasu is already formal but itashimasu is even more formal so it's used in business speech i would never say this to my family or my friends but yeah to clients or to your boss it would be great okay now let's talk about o misoka new year's eve so uh on the first of january you want to say aki master gozaimasu right but before the new year begins you don't want to say those phrases on new year's eve or misoka so the 31st of december you want to say kotoshiwa taihan o sewa is to take care of someone like pett or to take care of your pets but is when you are the receiving answer when people take care of you but you it's really more of an expression it literally means yeah like people they took care of me or someone and nothing but it's really like thank you for everything you've done for me so thank you for teaching me helping me leading me anything so you can say this when you finish your like host family experience so you visit japan and you have a host family with japanese people and at the end you can say and that's a great phrase to remember it doesn't have to be a host family just staying with somebody and at the end of the stay you can say osa narimashita or you can say that when graduating school and you can set up to your teacher and that's a very nice thing to say like thank you for everything you've done thank you for everything you've taught me like you really took care of me literally but yeah and tai hen means difficult rough right you can say like i had a really tough week like this week was really tough uh but taihan can also be used like totemo like very much so thaihang or ninari master like you took care of me a lot you really took a good care of me so it doesn't mean rough like it was rough for you probably that you took care of me it's not like that it's like you really took care of me thai han or sevani nari master and then you add kotoshiwa as well so if you've known that person for a long time you probably would say thank you for everything you've done for me this year and you can say and that's the phrase you want to say on new year's eve but before omisoka you can just say yoi o toshiyo have a happy new year but those phrases are very common and useful but you're not supposed to say those on new year's eve so you can say that any moment in december except for the last day so on the 5th of december you meet somebody and you know that you won't see the person again until next year you'd say now it's time for you to practice using these phrases and the best way to practice is by talking to native speakers and i would really like to recommend you italki on night turkey you can find so many skilled and experienced teachers and there are certified teachers teaching 150 languages unlike lessons at language schools you can personally ask your teacher what you'd really like to learn so you can focus on improving your pronunciation or you can also request your teacher to correct your wedding speech also taking lessons online turkey tends to be more affordable and if you're a busy person itoki is especially great because you can schedule your lesson anytime and also you can study from home there are a lot of experienced teachers on my turkey and they all have different schedules for example some japanese teachers live outside of japan so you can easily find the best time that fits your hectic schedule so yeah sign up for free using the link in the description box and level up your 2022 language study and make sure to say to the teacher you find okay to get phrases you want to use when your friend or somebody is ill you can say or daisy or daisy so it's like take care or i hope you get better soon is important but means to take good care of something to cherish something or to yeah treasure something so you can say uh to take good care of your health literally body so when you say odai it literally means take care of yourself uh but odaijini is still kind of informal so you want to say odaijini or when you're talking formally so if you're talking to your teacher or your boss you want to say of is used when you want to wish something when you hop i [Music] another one used commonly when speaking in family is hayaku and if somebody is hospitalized you want to say omimai mas means visiting in the hospital and if you're going to do omimai visit someone in the hospital you can bring flowers right but uh do not bring a potted plant even if your friend is obsessed with i mean yeah if your friend loves a potted plant i guess you could but but in japan it's considered rude to bring somebody a potted plant in the hospital because when a plant is in the pot it means the plant still has root right and root in japanese is and if you want to say it still has roots or roots are attached you say [Music] right but it sounds too similar to the phrase which can mean to fall asleep but it also can mean to be sick in bed so if you give somebody a potted plant it almost is saying you're sick in bed so it fits you haha so it's not great so no putted plants or just no plants with roots another flower you shouldn't bring is cyclamen so cyclamen is pretty but in japanese cyclamen is shikuraman and it sounds too similar to the word shiku which means agony of death that's why japanese people don't like the number 49 is because four can be read as she and nine could also be pronounced like agony of death number four or 49 makes japanese people think of death so no potted plants no cyclamens also white flowers are not great because they are usually used for the funeral you should probably buy some bright like flowers with bright colors the best thing is to ask the florist which flowers you should bring they would be very experienced as well okay now let's talk about phrases to use when somebody passes away so when you want to say i'm sorry for your loss you want to say okuyami shia gemas this is probably the phrase you want to remember you want to use this when you are actually saying to that person um and also when you are writing an email any moment you can use okuyami or mo mas i'm sorry for your loss or please accept my deepest condolences another phrase you might hear is koshu sho you can also use koshu sama desu koshu uh but this one is a bit more tricky you can only say goshu sho samades before the person's funeral after the funeral you have to say goshu so put this in the past tense but this one can also be used as sarcasm like japanese people not too sarcastic not very sarcastic compared to other nationalities at least but i personally don't use it because it's i find it rude to use this phrase because you know some people find it offensive when somebody just died and you're using that word that should be used for the uh you know person who died uh but yeah you can use it like rip i pee rest in peace uh to be sarcastic uh so some people don't think this word is great but you can definitely use it because you show i think it's better and yeah uh never ever say sumimasen to me i'm sorry for your loss because the family will think that you killed that person sumimasen gomez is not used like i'm sorry for your loss i feel sorry for you it really is to apologize for what you've done so somebody dies and you say sorry then people will start suspecting you okay so do not apologize like that like i think my student said sumimasen when my dog died but yeah i know what he was trying to say but still you know it's like did you kill my dog so it's it doesn't work the same way as english and in japan funerals are done mainly in the buddhist way so you can then say okuyami or goshu some of this but if the person is christian then you don't say those phrases so if the family or the person who passed away is christian then you'd say oinori itashimasu which means i pray and the most common phrase would be yasu so let's make a rest in peace i pray that yasurakana is peaceful and nehemodi is sleep so literally praying for the person to sleep peacefully the last phrase you should remember it means don't be too hard on yourself don't overdo it or take it easy so japanese people are used to hearing do your best this is such a common phrase right you'd say to anyone doing anything like sports come out there studying ah yeah like you'd say i'm going to propose to her tonight and your friend would be like come back there everything can be solved with ganbatte in japanese but japanese people also tend to walk way too hard or way too long like you know all the time it's really nice to hear muri shinai or formerly but generally you'd say this phrase uh to your friends so muddy shania then there it's really nice because yeah like anyone can say ganbatte to you your boss can say that because they want you to get the work done so come back there good luck but you know only people who care about you would say vedic so yeah it's a great phrase to remember for any occasion all right that's it for today thank you so much for watching until the end i really appreciate it and yeah if you like this video please give a thumbs up and make sure to subscribe to this channel and yeah share this video and other videos with your friends your family uh thank you so so much for always supporting me um i love you guys bye

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Published: Thu May 19 2022