VOLITIONAL Verb +と思う, Part 3 Grammar N4-50

JapaneseLily · 4 Jan 2024

In this video, we'll learn how to express that you want to do something.

Since not all verbs can be used in this grammatical form, we'll see them clearly in this video with lots of examples.

I'll also explain the difference of nuances between the form VOLITIONAL VERB followed by -と思う and the DICTIONARY FORM followed by -と思う

mdchachi · 5 Jan 2024

Do you have a video that explains the use of -san, -sama, etc? Specifically I'm looking for one that explains how you may use -san to address your colleague normally but when you're in a meeting with a customer you shouldn't use -san to refer to your colleague in front of the customer.

JapaneseLily · 5 Jan 2024

mdchachi said:
Do you have a video that explains the use of -san, -sama, etc? Specifically I'm looking for one that explains how you may use -san to address your colleague normally but when you're in a meeting with a customer you shouldn't use -san to refer to your colleague in front of the customer.

I haven't made any video about it. You are right, when you refer somebody in your own office or company(this person can be your colleagues or even your boss ) to your customer, then you should not use .. SAN , because you must speak in humidity manner
It means you and all whom you belong to, you speak humid way ( kenjougo謙譲語)without SAN, neither SAMA , only family name , when you refer these persons to your customer

mdchachi · 5 Jan 2024

JapaneseLily said:
I haven't made any video about it. You are right, when you refer somebody in your own office or company(this person can be your colleagues or even your boss ) to your customer, then you should not use .. SAN , because you must speak in humidity manner
It means you and all whom you belong to, you speak humid way ( kenjougo謙譲語)without SAN, neither SAMA , only family name , when you refer these persons to your customer

Yes I was explaining this to somebody in my office but I thought I'd look for a simple video explanation to explain it better. But all the videos I could find were only explaining basics about -san, -sama, -kun and -chan.

BTW I think you mean "humble" not "humid"

JapaneseLily · 5 Jan 2024

mdchachi said:
Yes I was explaining this to somebody in my office but I thought I'd look for a simple video explanation to explain it better. But all the videos I could find were only explaining basics about -san, -sama, -kun and -chan.

BTW I think you mean "humble" not "humid"

Oh Thank you very much for telling me my mistake

You are right . I mean HUMBLE
I think I might make a video about this theme. Maybe sone people don't know this at all and they might use incorrectly SAMA or SAN
Thank you very much for your comment. You gave me a good suggestion for a video

Toritoribe · 6 Jan 2024

mdchachi said:
I'm looking for one that explains how you may use -san to address your colleague normally but when you're in a meeting with a customer you shouldn't use -san to refer to your colleague in front of the customer.

There is a CM of JT(JAPAN TOBACCO INC.) of the topic. It shows that even for natives, newbie workers are often unfamiliar with this Japanese business custom. (Needless to say, 森は丁寧に育てねぇとなあ has double meaning.)

JapaneseLily · 6 Jan 2024

Toritoribe said:
There is a CM of JT(JAPAN TOBACCO INC.) of the topic. It shows that even for natives, newbie workers are often unfamiliar with this Japanese business custom. (Needless to say, 森は丁寧に育てねぇとなあ has double meaning.)

OhThank you very much for sending me here so interesting Japanese CM.
When my daughter was a child, very young and she is half Spanish( her Japanese at that time was not perfect) she answered the telephone call in my mother's house, she said 「はい、もしもし。小野田様です。」
She wanted to talk as elegant as an adult using KEIGO, but she used SAMA in our family name

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