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What’s です desu ます masu in Japanese? (polite/formal/respectful/keigo/honorifics)

That Japanese Man Yuta

Aug 16, 2022 • Subscribe

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Difference between です desu and ます masu #learnjapanese

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Common mistake about Japanese "keigo" (desu/masu)

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Real-life Japanese vs Textbook Japanese #1 ですから・ますから

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Common Japanese Mistake No.6 と思います

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Japanese Misconception No.1 Formal/Casual Japanese

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suru する - Meaning in Japanese

What suru means in Japanese. Grammar and examples.

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のです and Economic Conditions for Writers in Japan

The podcast is online! This month I wrote about のです (no desu) through an examination of some of Kakuta Mitsuyo’s writing that nicely captures two ideas that I…

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The denizens of a small slum on the outskirts of the modern city live largely on wilful self-delusion in Kurosawa’s first experimentation with colour.

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-masu Stem

What the term -masu stem means in Japanese?

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What is ~ku suru ~くする in Japanese? Examples and grammar.

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What ni suru にする means in Japanese. Grammar and examples.

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Hitogoto Desukara, Volume 1 (ヒトゴトですから!) , by Yuni is a very funny, outrageous and ever-so-slightly enraging workplace comedy manga. Komori Mio is a self-proclaimed sales ace. She’s got…

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In Volume 1 of Yuni’s office life drama, we met Komori Mio a woman who has been transferred into Human Resources instead of getting promoted in sales, at…

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You spend some time as an anime fan and you're bound to pick up a couple of Japanese words here and there. Sometimes it's because the subtitler just…

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Watashi no Yuri ha Oshigoto Desu!, Volume 13 (私の百合はお仕事です!)

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Ahhhhh, keigo, the infamously most formal, polite form of Japanese, with different forms of usage within it based on whether you are humbly referring to yourself or using…

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Discover These Five Japanese Mystery Writers (Who Aren’t Higashino Keigo)

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或るバイトを募集しています

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We all know the striking image of a multi-tiered Japanese pagoda, but what exactly are they? And what are they called in Japanese, anyway?

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