in Finland (and allmost all other European countries) we have (1, 2) 5, 10,
20 and 50cents and then we have 1 and 2 e (€, euro) as coins. every country
has different pictures other side of the coin. for example we have lion who
holds swords (cents has it) and then we have two flying swans at he 1 euro
coin and cloudberries at the 2 euro coin. then we have 5, 10, 20, 50, 100,
200 and 500e bills (€, euro) they all are the same looking and I have never
seen 500e bills cos' noone really uses them :D
Thank you! I almost wanted to say 毎度ありがとう ...is it suitable in this
situation? A little time ago I read that it's typically used as a
service-sector greeting, but I used it just like that. :D Maybe it's not
that unsuitable, is it? Actually I have questions to ask and it would be
plenty to make a video out of that, but....yes. :D Maybe you can put
something on video if you want. What would be proper Japanese terms of
expressions like 'bookworm' and language nerd, history buff etc.
Well…how can we call a rich person? Okanemochi? Obachabaku? Maybe some
anime/manga related words… Have you ever heard something similar to this -
-Igo…yoroshiku onegaishimasu. *politely* -Iie, iie igo mo shougi arimasen!
*hahaha* Like…is it a common thing to say sometimes or this one was just
original? :D Oh, I have many questions for myself written down, but I never
did a proper research . But if it doesn’t bother you then I’ll keep posting
them here time to time too, I think.
Already known all that but awesome lesson non-the-less. Keep up the good
work! Some suggestions: family words, like brother, sister, aunt, mother,
etc.. work related words and expression like "お疲れ様です "(otsukare sama desu)
and "ご苦労様" (gokurosama) , and maybe swear words, but I don't think Youtube
will allow that, so maybe military words. 気をつけて。じゃあ、またね。
for some it sounded like you slipped the y in. like sen en became sen-y-en.
it made me think of french, how if two words would sound weird/bad
together, they link them together: vous allez sounds like vu-z-alay instead
of vu alay. It may have just sounded like that to me and not actually been
how you pronounced it though.
yeah technically its えん which is e-nn. But it really doesn't make any
difference, just internationally people say yen. The only time I change the
pronunciation is when I speak in Japanese to Japanese I say en, when I'm
speaking in English I say yen. I'm sure Japanese would know you mean en
when saying yen though. :)
5 yen had a hole originally. 50 yen actually did not have a hole to begin
with but it got confusing looking almost the same as the 100 yen also being
a silver colored coin so they began making 50 yen coins with holes to
differentiate between the two. I'm not sure why the 5 yen one has a hole
though :P
i think they (y)en you mentioned differs from places to places??? coz when
i lived there some coin we pronounced, or some people i should say rather,
it with yen not en. like 5 yen i said 5 en, but 10 yen was 10 yen with
little emphasis on y but u can still hear it same with 1000 yen
My GF has over 2 million en she is saving kept for when we go back to visit
family. But what I thought was kind of cool was that the size of the bills
are different sizes. I am guessing it is to find faster in hand, but not
sure. I wold like to know if I am right on that fact.
@lissheim 1000- Hideyo Noguchi, scientist who discovered the agent of
syphilis, 5000- Ichiyō Higuchi, she was a writer from the Meiji Era, and
10000 Fukuzawa Yukichi, Professor and Theorist, founder of Keio University
and a founder of modern Japan itself.
@anthritVlog I actually noticed that too, it was part of the video- but it
ended up being too long so I took out the part where I showed the
differences in bill sizes :P but I'm glad someone noticed :3 I'm not sure
about the reason behind it though lol
@purplemiii Rich person would be Okanemochi, I'm not sure I've heard of
Obachabaku before... Those phrases you wrote are formal or rather, more
business like sayings. Not so common in daily speech :3 I'm glad to answer
any questions you have :D
@burnsey64 they can be used interchangeably. the only situation you'd use
nana instead is when you're asking for a number of something. like id like
7 apples please. sometime shichi sounds a bit weird but in most cases both
will work.
Already knew about numbers but nice to see the actual currency, for ideas
how about terms to do with trains stations like : 駅、西口、南出口、etc things like
that or maybe even directions in general left, right east, west.
These are great! My friend want to learn Japanese. I'm currently studying
Japanese. A lot of people don't like 'Shi' and 'Shichi', because the word
'Shi' means 'death' in Japanese. I prefer saying, 'Yon' and 'Nana' for 4
and 7.
Germany has following: Coins: 1cent 2cent 5cent 10cent 20cent 50cent 1€ 2€
Notes: 5€ 10€ 20€ 50€ 100€ 200€ 500€ And japan only has up to 100? Then you
need big bags to transfer bigger amounts of money hehe x)
First, high gratitude for these years of videos and assistance!
As for tipping, for sake of posterity, the tipping custom spread at most
from the United Stated, if my history is accurate, starting from an
agreement between banks and business to lower the bottom dollar. Whilst
pitched as a way to lower costs and incentivize customer service, insulting
wage supplemented by customers' tipping the rest of pay was coaxed into
becoming legally permissible wage for certain criteria of jobs --- A bit
disgusting and avaricious but, given the source, I am unfortunately not
surprised.
Yes and we can rely on the U.N to correctly evaluate everything now can't
we, the same outfit that puts countries like North Korea on the nuclear
arms proliferation committee, or Saudi Arabia on a women's rights
committee. Norway doesn't even have the population of the Canadian province
of British Columbia whereas the U.S is the world's largest economy with
over 300 million.While it's true that they don't get everything right (no
country does) they get less wrong then many, many other countries.
I'm in school now. A school that was built 4 years ago, and has 1200
pupils. I'm writing this on the laptop the government gave me when I
started at this public school. I came here by the bus, on which the county
has given me a free pass. The bus drove here on the motorway. C'mon, you
can't complain about Norway. Yes, we have shitloads of money saved in a
fund, but our BNP is higher than Sweden's, a country almost twice as big. I
can see your Frp-ness, and I'm so happy you guys aren't in charge.
Lol, didn't notice that you're also from Norway^^ But yeah, get your point,
but for me it feels like people here can dumber than you can imagine...
maybe because me class has made me think that people here are dumb and that
I mean really dumb >_> And no i don't cheer for Frp, they are dumb. Let the
rich be rich and poor be poor. What I mean would be that repair the road
that you can't drive on and help the schools with equipment and repair
damages. (i suck to write about things since im only 16)
this is how it should be. i don't get tips from my boss for doing a good
job, why should waitresses /delivery drivers/bartenders? it never made any
sense to me. ya sure a lot of those people make minimum wage/below minimum
wage but so do a lot of labor intensive jobs where the work is much more
extensive. a lot of people feel obligated to do so i guess cause your
dealing face to face with them but they are getting payed! not saying i
don't tip cause in most cases its rude and sadly expected.
Samurai always had helped and aided suffering people at an emergency.
High-ranked Samurai had often heard and adopted an opinion from a low-class
Non-Samurai people. Even Shogun,like Yoshimune, had often did it. And they
revised the social system base on those people's opinions. ★Unfortunately,
many people, especially Caucasian, are misunderstanding about this. So,
when some US president said “USA taught democracy to Japan”, many Japanese
laughed and said “How ignorant he is”.
I can tell you that Norway isn't a fine country itself. I am born her. "We"
think that we're Superior then other countries. But the politic are messed
up. The state doesn't something about the money we have? We have shit ton
and doesn't use it. Some schools are thorn. We need elder home. We need
better roads up in north. And not least the people are stupid as shit
sometimes. Anders Breivik got a couple of people that cheer for him after
what he did and nobody is doing something about it
★People of the world was surprised at the Japanese orderly behaviors, at
this time's 3.11 disaster in Japan. But as a matter of fact, like I
mentioned above, Japanese have already established such kind of highly
sophisticated society which is the real democratic society first in the
world in the Edo period. That's why Japanese society is very safe, kind,
gentle, decent, elegant, and respectful for any people in the world. ★This
is the background of Japan's high quality service.
I was in Tokyo in December 2010 and as I was paying for an item at Tokyo
Disneyland, I noticed the girl behind the register make a face at the note
I was handing to her. She quickly smiled and issued me my change. I then
started observing the locals and noticed that their notes were without a
fold, they were nice and in almost perfect condition. After that, I made
sure that, before I paid for anything, that my note was nice and flat. Is
this typical in Japan?
Samurai had the high status and the power but had a little money and hold
heavy responsibilities and their actibities were strictly restricted. On
the other hand, Non-Samurai people didn't have the power but could have
much money and were able to act freely compared to Samurai. ★So, Japanese
culture was highly developed by Non-Samurai people in the Edo period. And
that culture had shocked and strongly influenced Europeans in 19th
century.(Japonism).
man is the 10,000 rank. sen is the 1,000 rank. hyaku is the 100 rank. Jyuu
is the 10 rank. And after man, it you start with the 10 rank and add it to
the 10,000 rank. So, 100,000 is Jyuu-man, 1,000,000 is hyaku-man,
10,000,000 is sen-man. After that, it gets complicated and not always
discussed. A good reference for quickly adjusting to a known currency is
for easy math assume $1=¥100. So take two 0's off to ID quickly that ¥1000
is about $10.
I noticed that often when my family is giving money to someone else (not at
a store, etc.) and they don't have an envelope, they will often fold the
bills in half heightwise twice and hold it concealed then take the other
person's hand and press the money into their hand who will then accept the
money and conceal it by closing their hand around it. Also, in those cases,
I think it's rude to look at/count the money while in front of the gift-or.
just a quick question: When you are in a shop and want to pay an article,
do you give the money directly to the cashier (his hand) or do you place it
on the desk first? In my country, you give the money directy to the cashier
but in Italy, where I come from, this is considered rude, because they say
that yoou give money directy only to homeless people who are asking for it
on the streets. So i'd like to know how it is in Japan. Thank you
That $2,000 bill is kind of like the $2 bill here in the US. I wouldn't say
it's rare but it's not very common. I only have one and I keep it as a good
luck charm but then my brother says he can get a bunch at the bank.. maybe
I'm wrong. Anyways is it true that it's common for Japanese people to carry
a lot of money with them at all times since things are expensive there? And
if so, how much would be a good amount to carry?
@AnalogerTyp C'mon, you gotta pay for healthcare! When Obama proposed the
PPACA, the Americans were fighting over the right to end up on the street
when they're sick. The nation's capital's mayor during the 90's was
addicted to crack cocaine. If you're black and from Miami, statistics says
you're more likely to end up in jail than finishing college. And still some
people believe America's the best country on earth.
Blame money speculators, and, weak economies of Europe and USA. (Also
Japan's poor monetary policy). Also OPEC' s high price. When I visited
America first time in 1961, had to buy some black market dollars at 400 yen
to a dollar (official rate 360:1). Now(Apr. 21, '12), 80 yen to one.
Everybody suffers. Yes, Japanese travelers benefit, but the nation lose
business, tough to export, hard for the visitors to Japan.
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