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Top 25 Japanese questions you need to know.

Lesson 1. What's your name in Japanese?

In each lesson of this 25-part series, you'll master a common question for Japanese learners,

and then learn how to answer it like a native speaker.

You'll learn how these key phrases work by breaking them down into each component.

Then through repetition and new vocabulary, you'll expand your understanding of the question, its answers and any variations.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to respond to the common question what's your name. In Japanese this is

the first word in the question is

name in English.

Na-mae. Listen again and repeat. Name.

This pattern of first introducing a word at natural speed, providing the translation, breaking it down and then giving it again at natural speed will be repeated throughout the series.

Try to speak aloud as often as possible. The next word in the

question is, what, meaning something like is. This is the subject marking particle.

Now repeat.

What?

Listen to the first two words of the question and repeat.

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