JAPANESE PHRASE BOOK

For a more detailed list of Japanese words see our Japanese Phrase Book.

Leave me alone.

ほっといて。 (hottoite.)

Don't touch me!

さわらないで! (sawaranaide!)

I'll call the police.

警察をよびます。 (keisatsu o yobimasu)

Police!

警察! (keisatsu)

Stop! Thief!

待て! どろぼう! (mate! dorobō!)

I need your help.

たすけてください。 (tasukete kudasai)

It's an emergency.

緊急です。 (kinkyū desu)

I'm lost.

迷子です。 (maigo desu)

I lost my bag.

かばんをなくしました。 (kaban o nakushimashita)

I dropped my wallet.

財布をおとしました。 (saifu o otoshimashita)

I'm sick.

病気です。 (byōki desu)

I've been injured.

けがしました。 (kega shimashita)

Please call a doctor.

医者を呼んでください。 (isha o yonde kudasai)

Can I use your phone?

電話を使っていいですか? (denwa o tsukatte iidesuka)

IMPROVE YOUR JAPANESE

The best way to improve your Japanese is to use it regularly. The best way to use your Japanese regularly is to talk to native Japanese who are interested in developing their English skills. This way you improve your language skills, help them with their English and make new friends at the same time.

Japanese Lifestyle Friends is the ideal way to find language partners, both male and female. It is great to have friends in Japan so when you travel there, you can meet them and they can show you around. This way you can experience the real Japan that you would normally miss as a tourist.

(Article based on Wikitravel article by Based on work by Paul N. Richter, Keith K. Higa and Ted O'Neill and Wikitravel user(s) Jpatokal, Cjensen, っ, Sekicho, KagakuyaSan, Nickpest, Nzpcmad, Rai koku and PierreAbbat. Article used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0.)

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