The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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

Mar 12, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
What Should I Call You in Japanese?
01:54 • 2min
3
What's Unique to Japanese Is the Younger Seblings, Obiste or Nin?
03:45 • 2min
4
The Hands Are Little, Yes, Something Different
05:19 • 2min
5
I'm a Brick Brother, or a Yam to Thad Too?
07:10 • 2min
6
What's the Difference Between Grandma and Grandpa?
08:41 • 2min
7
Do Grandmothers in Japan Like Being Called Baba?
10:38 • 2min
8
Do You Feel Closer With Your Grandparents?
12:28 • 2min
9
Is That Pono in Japanese?
14:20 • 2min
10
Do Your Kids Ever Call You?
15:55 • 2min
11
How to Talk About Your Parents to Someone Other Than Your Mam
17:31 • 2min
12
What Do You Call Other Tong Okatama, Like in Cansa?
19:18 • 2min
13
How Do Your Kids Call You?
20:56 • 2min
14
Do the Professor Have Time?
22:34 • 2min
15
Is It a Division or a Section?
24:17 • 2min
16
Ka, Cacoaco, Ka Kacho.
26:01 • 2min
17
Id Mein Those, Like Sense for P. You've Multipled.
27:33 • 1min
18
I'm Not Working for a Company, or Even if Working for Them.
29:00 • 2min
19
How Did People Call You a Teacher?
30:55 • 1min
20
I've Never Worked for a Traditional Company in Japan, So I Don't Know.
32:15 • 2min
21
I Think I Was Called by Mammy.
34:16 • 2min
22
I Don't Like a for Last Name
35:56 • 2min
23
What's the Difference Between Editor in Chief and Editor in Chief?
37:26 • 2min
24
Sop Pany Rolls
39:06 • 2min
25
Is There a Word Like Obatan in Japanese?
41:06 • 2min
26
Is That a Social Role?
42:40 • 1min
27
Is It Normal in English to Use Someone's Name in the First Person?
44:08 • 2min
28
Tax Driver by Taxi Driver, Like a High Taxi?
45:54 • 2min
29
The Best Podcast Ever!
47:34 • 2min
30
Sohan Se Sel Aat Ocas
49:13 • 2min