Japanese for All Occasions: Mastering Speech Styles from Casual to Honorific

In Japanese, register - the way you change your words according to who you are speaking with - plays a key role.

This title offers an introduction to this bewildering aspect of the language.

Through 57 dialogues, it shows learners how the Japanese change their way of speaking depending on the social setting or their relationship with the listener.

In Japanese, register - the way you change your words according to who you are speaking with - plays a key role.

The rules of register in Japanese are far more complicated than they are in English, but until