Cities / Tokyo

Learn Japanese in Tokyo

Standard Japanese as Tokyo speaks it: polite です/ます with shopkeepers, strangers and anyone older, plain forms with friends, and the set phrases staff really use, like いらっしゃいませ when you walk in. Everything is in Japanese script, with furigana to help with the kanji.

In Solvelingua you move to Tokyo (東京), find a home in Yanaka, and learn Japanese the way people there speak it: by talking with the baker, your landlord, your boss and your friends, by voice or by typing. Everyone remembers you, and gentle feedback after each conversation shows what to say next time.

What you'll hear in Tokyo

Answering the phone

もしもし

Polite and friendly “you”

です/ます (polite) with strangers, plain form (タメ口) with friends

Courtesies

恐れ入りますが, 少々お待ちください and お手数ですが

Money

Japanese yen

Local words and slang

そうなんだ
なるほど
ちょっと
やっぱり
マジで
やばい
めっちゃ
超
うける
ガチで

Where you'll live

Yanaka: Temples, a cemetery of cherry trees, cats and the Yanaka Ginza shopping street at sunset.

You can play in English, Spanish and Portuguese: menus, feedback, lessons and translations come in the language you pick.

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