Travel Japanese: Essential Phrases & Conversation

This lesson is part of the series: Travel Japanese: Shopping, Eating, Hotels, etc

Sarah Moore teaches you basic Japanese phrases you need to know when traveling to Japan. This video provides a last minute emergency lesson on essential phrases and basic conversation for people who are traveling to Japan very soon. If you have more time you can check out Transportation and Accommodation and Shopping and Eating. Enjoy!

I am a recent graduate at the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Film and Sociology. My mother is Japanese and I also studied Japanese for the past 4 years and have lived in Japan for 11 years. Check out my Travel Japanese videos if you are traveling to Japan or if you want to learn some quick phrases for fun!

Also check out my mom's video if you want to learn how to cook some yummy Japanese food!

Awesome Practical Language Lesson! Wish I had ...

08/15/2007

~ Jason

Love this lesson. Sarah, who doesn't explain, but it seems like she is a native Japanese speaker, or at least clearly very good at Japanese, teaches her friend Brittanie critical phrases for a trip to Japan. It covers the essential like Thank you, excuse me, and do you speak English. And at 13 minutes, it's about the right length for me to practice in one sitting and retain. I'd love to see an audio version of this, as well as a handout would be great. And of course, please make more lessons. How about how to order food?

Just like the tapes but better

08/06/2007

~ brittanie

Ever since The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise came out I've been wanting to learn how to speak an Asian language. Of course learning what's necessary for travel purposes comes before trying to communicate with a fully dressed samurai...This video accomplishes teaching the basics and does so in a very warm and friendly way, much friendlier than language on tapes lessons.

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