Reminds me of a letter that came from New South Wales (over 3000km away) to our outstation on the Arnhem Land plateau in the Northern Territory. Not sure who Margie was but she managed to send the letter from Jabiru to the outstation (about 400km by 4WD bush track) and Mr Nadjamerrek received it.
If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.
Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down “Have supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.”
I hope this is helpful to you.
Now this is a great resume list of action words. I love that it’s broken down by types of jobs. Saving for future use.
Here’s
a list of Japanese words I personally think are useful for travellers to Japan.
It has some words I see often or words I wish I would have known at some point
when travelling. I might update this occasionally when I come up with more.
For
abbreviated terms, you can cut out words [in square brackets]
Japanese vowel pronunciation (for Romanization in italics)
‘a’ like in ‘ah’ and ‘ha’
‘i’ like in ‘Wii’ and ‘be’
‘u’ like in ‘June’ and ‘food’
‘e’
like in ‘hey’ and ‘neigh’
‘o’ like in ‘row’ and ‘doe’
Common Words / Phrases
Japanese
Language: 日本語(にほんご) (nihongo)
English Language: 英語(えいご) (eigo)
Chinese Language: 中国語(ちゅうごくご) (chuugokugo)
Thank
you (standard): [どうも]ありがとう[ございます] ([doumo] arigatou [gozaimasu])
Thank you (Kansai dialect): 大(おお)きに (ookini)
Thank you (casual): サンキュー (san kyuu)
Thank you for taking care of me: お世話(せわ)になりました (o sewa ni narimashita)
Good
Morning: おはよう[ございます] (ohayou
[gozaimasu])
Good Evening: こんばんは (konbanwa)
Good Night: おやすみ[なさい] (oyasumi
[nasai])
Hello (general): こんにちは (kon’nichiwa)
Good-bye: さよなら (sayonara)
Good-bye (casual): じゃまた[ね] / じゃね
/ バイバイ (ja mata [ne] / ja ne / bai bai)
Please
(give me ___):
___
おねがいします
( _______ onegaishimasu)
Welcome (from shopkeepers): いらっしゃいませ (irrashaimase)
Welcome! (general): ようこそ (youkoso)
Before eating (thank you for the meal): いただききます (itadakimasu)
After eating (thank you for the meal): ごちそうさま [でした] (gochisou sama [deshita])
How much is that?: いくらですか? (ikura
desu ka?)
Where is _________?: _________ はどこですか?(______ wa doko desu ka?)
Can I have the bill?: お勘定(かんじょう)お願(ねが)いします (okanjou
onegaishimasu)
Paying separately: べつべつ (betsubetsu)
I don’t understand
/ know: わかりません (wakarimasen)
Help!!: 助(たす)けて!! (tasukete!!)
Train-doesn’t-stop
station: 通過駅(つうかえき) (tsuukaeki)
Out of service (bus,
train, etc.), deadheading: 回送(かいそう) (kaisou)
Terminus, last stop: 終点(しゅうてん) (shuuten)
Last train: 終電(しゅうでん) (shuuden)
Day before
yesterday: 一昨日(おととい) (ototoi)
Yesterday: 昨日(きのう) (kinou)
Today: 今日(きょう) (kyou)
Tomorrow: 明日(あした) (ashita)
Day after tomorrow: 明後日(あさって) (asatte)
Day
1 of the month: 1日
/ 一日 (tsuitachi)
Day 2 of the month: 2日
/ 二日 (futsuka)
Day 3 of the month: 3日
/ 三日 (mikka)
Day 4 of the month: 4日
/ 四日 (yokka)
Day 5 of the month: 5日
/ 五日 (itsuka)
Day 6 of the month: 6日
/ 六日 (muika)
Day 7 of the month: 7日
/ 七日 (nanoka)
Day 8 of the month: 8日
/ 八日 (youka)
Day 9 of the month: 9日
/ 九日 (kokonoka)
Day 10 of the month: 10日
/ 十日 (tooka)
Day 11 of the month: 11日
/ 十一日 (juuichinichi)
Day 12 of the month: 12日
/ 十二日 (juuninichi)
Day 13 of the month: 13日
/ 十三日 (juusan’nichi)
Day 14 of the month: 14日
/ 十四日 (juuyokka)
Day 15 of the month: 15日
/ 十五日 (juugonichi)
Day 16 of the month: 16日
/ 十六日 (juurokunichi)
Day 17 of the month: 17日
/ 十七日 (juushichinichi)
Day 18 of the month: 18日
/ 十八日 (juuhachinichi)
Day 19 of the month: 19日
/ 十九日 (juukunichi)
Day 20 of the month: 20日
/ 二十日 (hatsuka)
Day 21 of the month: 21日
/ 二十一日 (nijuuichinichi)
Day 22 of the month: 22日
/ 二十二日 (nijuuninichi)
Day 23 of the month: 23日
/ 二十三日 (nijuusan’nichi)
Day 24 of the month: 24日
/ 二十四日 (nijuuyokka)
Day 25 of the month: 25日
/ 二十五日 (nijuugonichi)
Day 26 of the month: 26日
/ 二十六日 (nijuurokunichi)
Day 27 of the month: 27日
/ 二十七日 (nijuushichinichi)
Day 28 of the month: 28日
/ 二十八日 (nijuuhachinichi)
Day 29 of the month: 29日
/ 二十九日 (nijuukunichi)
Day 30 of the month: 30日
/ 三十日 (sanjuunichi)
Day 31 of the month: 31日
/ 三十一日 (sanjuuichinichi)