Practise Your Japanese Etiquette
The website How To Bow has been linked to by 3yen a few times before but it tends to focus on business etiquette only. Now, there is a unique way to learn and practice etiquette for Japan but with one catch: it’s in Japanese.
The four dots represent empty seats in a taxi. If four company employees were to ride in this taxi, which seat would the most senior employee take?
Answer: Behind the driver.
That’s a Nintendo DS screen shot you’re looking at. It seems that Nintendo has come out with an etiquette training game to go with all those Brain Training games. It covers the same business etiwuette that you’d find on How to Bow but it also has general “common sense” questions – which may not be so common sense to gaijin. A much more fun way of remembering your Japanese etiquette rules. A version in English is unlikely. But then again, you can practice your Japanese as well as your etiquette. It’s win-win!
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Kotaku
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September 14th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
That looks like a pretty cool game! I just might have to pick up a copy of that the next time I hit Yamada Denki. Thanks for the tip!