
What Should I Call "You"? Part 3: Using Family Roles/Social Roles
The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language
What's Unique to Japanese Is the Younger Seblings, Obiste or Nin?
We pretty much call everybody older a in japanese. Younger seblings are usually obiste or nin, you'll beste meaning just their name. If it's not cleer, that's when you kind of have to bring up a new sabjact ten. I guess we do that in the stays ere in english too, like mamamam, dad, grandpa, grandma.
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