Comments on: Book Review: Keigo Grand Master — Develop Your Ownage In Polite Japanese Using Example Sentences

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:29:22 +0000

@yuzuru
Does it come with an audio CD or anything to hear the examples? Or, should we take it to RhinoSpike?
No audio. Spike it! 😀

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By: km

km — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:13:47 +0000

While looking for this book I found a similar one called 敬語入門 (Keigo 101) that has some similar features. It is aimed at college graduates who are becoming new 社会人 and as such gives some good practical advice about the right attitude to have in various business situations, as well as example usages of certain expressions. Rather than simply explaining what to say, it also has information on what to do and the reasons behind what is being said, which is very interesting, no matter your own reaction to the stiffness of some business encounters. It does suffer from the table layout that you dislike in several portions, but also has good illustrations and diagrams for things like uh… standing position among coworkers in elevators (if you’re lowly like me, you’ll be pushing the elevator buttons for everyone else).

It’s interesting because where I work (school), nobody talks like this, but the situational explanations are informative, easy to read, and common-sensical. Khatz, did you have a chance to check this book out when you were book-picking?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:04:52 +0000

Wonderful post. I also found a website with interesting material for learning keigo (for business):
koakishiki.com/index.html

Enjoy!

By: All Fruits Rype

All Fruits Rype — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:49:35 +0000

Thanks for this post, I’ll definitely be needing this soon 🙂

By: Brendan Miller

Brendan Miller — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:13:50 +0000

I like when you post references to materials in Japanese. Actually, some of the japanese wikipedia links gave me a quick little reading exercise.

I’m curious, do you know of any japanese language blogs that are entertaining?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:17:36 +0000

>”but just get over it and give me some bold type and bullet points, big fella!”

Simplify, basic-iffah, concise-iffah! Gib me dem bullet points!

I wonder if you’ve checked out “REWORK” by 37 Signals.

37 Signals, Tom Peters, Seth Godin… God I love their conciseness.

By: あんど

あんど — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:09:31 +0000

Seconding yuzuruさん’s sentiment about the table format. I’m diggin’ it.

Another book to add to my list of books to buy… It sounds really nice.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:00:16 +0000

You know, I’m pretty sure some religions actually pay people to shake random people down on the street and recommend very specific books to them. I sense a profitable career opportunity for you in the near future…

By: yuzuru

yuzuru — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:36:53 +0000

Me likes the table format for book recommendations.

Does it come with an audio CD or anything to hear the examples? Or, should we take it to RhinoSpike?

By: nacest

nacest — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:11:27 +0000

>Cult? AJATT. AJATT? Books. Books? Today’s book.
どこから突っ込めばいいんだ…