During our primary and secondary school,
We, Malaysian, used to say stand up, then ' ASSALAMUALAIKUM, SELAMAT PAGI, CIKGU'.
Then, all of us will sit after the teacher saying ' duduk, semua'.
Its kind of a norm expression or greetings we use in a classroom.
but, do japanese people use the same greetings and expressions like we normally say and do in Malaysia?
Certainly not. They have their bow to show respect to the sensei(the teacher). We dont do the bow part. Its enough to show your respect by attentively greeting the teacher.
How the japanese people greet their せんせい (sensei) or きょうし (kyooshi).
Zoraida sensei (my japanese language sensei) did taught us how to say stand up and sit in japanese language.
To say stand up, 'kiritsu' (きりつ).
The class rep will say 'kiritsu'
after all of us stand up, we do the bow part to show a respect to the teacher.
Btw, japanese culture, they dont do to the teacher only.
If they want to greet people, they make a must to do the bow part.
after the 'rei', the class rep will say ohayoo gozaimasu, sensei.
then everyone will follow.
Then the class rep will say 'chakuseki'（ちゃくせき) which means sit down.
The pronunciation of the words haha really captured my heart because the sounds uttered looked so cute. But, i found it difficult to pronounce kiritsu haha. Because i have problem to pronounce word with 'r'.
'rei'(れい), eego de 'bow' desu yo
Japanese have 3 types of bows depending on the deepness of the waist bend
Eshaku bow
(the most casual bow)
You need to bend your waist about 15 degree angle
The japanese people tend to give this bow when exchanging a casual greeting or passing by someone of a higher social status.
Keirei bow
(normally known as business interaction bow)
We need to bend our body part to about 30 degrees.
The keirei bow is normally practised when entering or leaving reception or meeting room
or when greeting customers.
Saikeirei bow
(the most polite bow)
We need to bend our upper body part (torso) about 45 degrees.
This bow used to express feelings of deep gratitude or apology
Last but not least is ' Acuh tak Acuh ' bow
haha just kidding. Japanese dont have that bow.
Only we malaysians do that bow sometimes. (I'm referring to me haha..as before i want to do bow exactly like the japanese people do but i dont how to do a proper bow, so i just nod my head a little bit and i was like, waaa! i have done my bow perfectly)
During that class, i also learnt about the classroom expression.
If your sensei are explaining the lesson and you are not listening well,
we can say moo ichido onegaishimasu.
It means one more time please
I suggest you to memorize this phrases well if you are deciding to take japanese language course haha
It is the most important phrase you should remember compared other words.
For us that have zero basic in japanese language, it may be difficult to capture and understand the words right away, so we may use the もういちど(informal) or もういちど おねがいします.
If you're running out words or vocabulary in japanese class, just say that phrase please.
some phrases that you can combine with moo ichido :
Kiite kudasai (きいて ください) : please listen
Kaite kudasai (かいて ください) : please write
Itte kudasai (いって ください) : please talk
Mite kudasai (みて ください) : please see
Yonde kudasai (よんで ください) : please read
We may combine the phrases like this
E.g : Moo ichido itte kudasai ( please repeat your word one more time)
and how do we say if we understood what sensei's explaining.
We say wakarimashita but if we didnt understand, say wakarimasen
Btw, lets imagine
after we understood the lesson,
we need to excuse ourselves, how can we say to sensei to excuse ourselves?
we may say chotto shitsureeshimasu (ちょっと しつれします)
Instead of the lesson in the class, i also see this link to increase my vocabulary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAnUn4p_wbk and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeUjjyqT1Q
Ijo desu ;)
