Hello!
I really want to work on keigo. I was wondering, does anyone know if there is an app or a course specifically focused on keigo? I know that various textbooks have chapters about keigo, but I want something that I can use long term, like an app, rather than reading a chapter and forgetting about it.
If an app doesn’t exist, do business japanese books/courses focus sufficiently on this? Does anyone have any recommendations?
Thank you so much!
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I don’t know, but I’d also be interested so I did some googling.
http://nihongo.hum.tmu.ac.jp/mic-j/hyperkeigo/japan/multi-j.html
It seems this website has little scenarios you can watch and study. It still wouldn’t be an app to use permanently, but it seems more engaging than just reading a chapter on keigo (at least, imo).
Let me know if you end up finding anything else!
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That seems like a great place to start! And I agree, much better than just reading a chapter. Thank you so much for finding and sharing it!
I’ll do some more investigating too!
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Not sure if you have access to Udemy through work/school or if you’re willing to pay for individual courses, but they have a few courses that might be a good fit. For example, this one seems to focus on language used between different seniority levels within a company, and then language used within a company vs with clients: https://www.udemy.com/course/keigohanashikotoba/
I’m not sure how good they are, but Coto Japanese Academy also seems to offer business/keigo courses both in-person and online: ビジネス日本語コース - コトアカデミー日本語学校
If you’re okay with Youtube as opposed to a textbook, I quite like Kotsu kotsu Nihongo’s videos as it shows a variety of situations and also shows examples of inappropriate words for a given situation: Business Japanese Playlist
Some of these are more business focused than keigo specifically, but considering keigo is typically used in business situations there’s going to be a lot of crossover between the two.
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この本を買えばよかったけど(Gotta practice this grammer because it fucks me up all the time)
The Japan times released this book and I was peeking through it once and it does the thing that books do. Grammer and Vocab was ONLY Keigo and the vocab was what you would see at a company and so forth.
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dude no way, this looks almost perfect! you’re a legend
These resources are amazing, thank you so much! I think Coto academy is a bit pricy, but it’s really good to know it’s an option.
The resource showing the inappropriate words for a situation sounds especially useful!
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