In this video, Tomoe teaches us two must-know Japanese phrases for when you get home. They are ”ただいま” tadaima – which means “I’m home”. The other phrase ”おかえりなさい” okaeri nasai means something like welcome back and is the answer to tadaima.
This is used everyday in households across Japan so this is a great phrase to know.
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2 replies on “4. Learn Japanese Pod – Tadaima & Okaeri nasai”
Nice video, thank you! It would be awesome to add a japanese transcript into the description (as for the 3rd video). Because I want to try to understand everything, what tomoe-sensei says :-)
Hi Andreas, good idea! Working on it now!