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What Should I Call "You"? Part 3: Using Family Roles/Social Roles

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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I'm Not Working for a Company, or Even if Working for Them.

I feel more like friendly, or more honorific to call someody vy shato san if you're not working for them. It's the uche soto kind of conserate. So iuld refer to him as chata w instead of chatoson. Do you know what i meant? It's comfigated. We youd rit o, the curot. If you're referring to someone in your inn group, but you're talking to someone out group, you don't add the honorific yaits awat up. I onlysay call koci shato to not to address him, but to refer to him to japanese speaking people.

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