I have about 7 books on Keigo. Where do you want to start?
If you're serious about learning Keigo, once you learn the basics, I would suggest going out and getting some Keigo books aimed at Japanese speakers. They tend to be a lot more in-depth than the foreigner-oriented books that I've seen.
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By the way, ありがとう is generally no written in Kanji, unless you're trying to seem old fashioned. Also, no one has done anything for you yet, so saying thank you at the outset is a little strange.
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Just a slight caveat to your first post, Harisenbon.
The kanji for ありがとう are used quite often on very formal correspondance. I don't think it necessarily has a tinge of 'old-fashioned,' but rather 'overly-formal.'
For example, it's used quite frequently on 年賀状 and marriage invitations.
Mukade,
I did think about that when writing that, but I considered 年賀状 and 結婚招待状 to be in the "old fashioned" category. Not in the sense that they are out of date, but rather that they are written in a traditional fashion. For business letters, the kanji is LESS used, but I have definately seen it used in very formal letters.
Overly formal is probably the better explanation, however.
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Not that it matters anymore, as the original post was deleted. :/
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Harisenbon wrote:
I have about 7 books on Keigo. Where do you want to start?
Would you list them here? And tell which one is best to begin
with in your opinion. Not that I'm that far yet, but for future's sake...
No need to write any in-depth review. Mere book suggestion.
Thanks in advance.
Shock! Kanji is used in written Keigo too! In fact, more polie and official language tends to use more and less common Kanji, I have found.
hyper, whatever textbook you are currently using should cover Keigo to a sufficient degree to get started with. If you are a more advanced speaker then I appologise.
Papa Tony wrote:
"Keigo for Dummies" -- a book that needs to be written.
Spoiler:
Papa Tony, you are humorous as usual, but I see stars again ! @.@
Even simple politeness need to be taught some times you know, didn't you have experienced before ?
I'll like to own one after you'd finished writing ....... :D
Shirley,
"*** for Dummies" is a popular series of books in America (and I assume other English Speaking countries). They have Dummies books for everything "C++ For Dummies" "Cars for Dummies" "Nuclear Fission for Dummies" "Dummies for Dummies," etc. Tony wasn't insulting anyone, that's just the name of the book series.
Harisenbon-san
Thank you, I know, since coco-san wrote something on polite language, I mean it might be suitable for me in this case.
I'm a real "dummy"
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