Questions tagged [email]
メール. Questions about writing or understanding email.
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How to provide variable text in Japanese?
In my web application, we want to allow users to provide custom text for simple automated messages, in which they can provide variables that will be filled in automatically. To give an example in ...
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How can I write this "email" in Japanese? [closed]
I am writing a science fiction work, and, at some point, the main character writes an email to a very respected scientist in Japan. I was considering writing the email itself in Japanese, if that may ...
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What level of politeness/respect should a customer use towards a shop owner?
I made a purchase at a store and received an email from the shop owner.
What level of respect/politeness should my reply be, in addition to using 丁寧形 throughout? For example, how should I choose ...
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How to contact again someone who did not reply to my previous mail?
It's a little bit awkward but I would like to know how I could contact again someone who didn't reply yet to my email ? It's been almost 2 month since I sent some questions in Japanese to a Tokyo ...
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Email signature detection - what are some common phrases to sign off emails? [closed]
I am a developer on Speaking Email, an app that reads out email in any language.
I am working on our email signature detector and I'm looking for some examples of Japanese phrases that would be ...
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How best to respond to 「ご無沙汰しています」
I just received an email from a good friend in Japan, who has notably over the past few months been instrumental in connecting me to various people, for some research interviews I've been conducting.
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How to address a company in an email? [duplicate]
When writing an email to a person I would add 様 or "sama" at the end of the name in the email opening. However if I'm writing to a company and don't know the recipient's name would I add "sama" as ...
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Where can I learn the proper way to answer professional emails?
I haven't found any good blogs or books explaining properly the way to start an email or to answer one.
For example, I received an email asking me about my availabilities for an interview:
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How to say "Contact Me" for email
I would like to say the following in Japanese: contact, contact me and email here. Would the following suffice:
"Contact" as in: contact:[email protected]. Is it simply: コンタック / Kontakku ?
Contact Me ...
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How do I write out a multiple choice question in Japanese?
This is more for formal written email than spoken in person.
For example, if I was to ask:
Which of the following do you enjoy:
(A) Coffee
(B) Tea
(C) The java in me
I would also like to know ...
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Usage of -san in English emails
Working in a Japanese based company I often see that in written English which is (directly or indirectly) addressed to Japanese the suffix -san is attached to names.
With some basic knowledge of ...
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How can I say "I appreciate your consideration"?
I am sending an email and I want to say "I appreciate your consideration for...".
Would 「…に配慮を有り難がります」be appropriate?
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Formality when talking to ex girlfriend
I am a 32 year old American male. I dated a Japanese female from Kobe for three years. She is now 35 years old, married with a baby. I met her in Kobe, where I lived as well. We haven't spoken in ...
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Usage of beginning and end expressions in formal letters - include names?
I am new to writing formal letters in Japanese, and I am currently writing to a kind person who will be very understanding if I make small mistakes, but I would like to get as much right as possible.
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What is the proper way to write a professional email to a business?
I'm not sure how I would write a professional email to a business in Japanese. For example, if I wanted to start out with "Hello," I wouldn't say こんにちは, would I? I know there are polite ways of saying ...
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How to write 'I'm emailing you in regard of [topic]'
I'd like to ask whether my writing is correct or not; I'm trying to write a formal email following up my previous email in regard of topic X. The way I write it is like this :
Xデモ依頼について,メールをお送りします.
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How do you politely ask permission to deviate from received instructions?
After I agreed to proofread a professor's 論文, he instructed me to print out a hard copy and write edits on it in red, as well as send him the Word document back with my edits done on the original file....
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How to address and greet Japanese people in an english email [closed]
I am aware that in Japanese it is considered to be rude to address other people with just their first name, but I wonder if this is only true for communication in Japanese, of if this still holds true ...
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How do you politely apologize to a professor for unintentional rudeness?
I received an email from a new professor in my department asking for a native English speaker's check of his paper. Since no one had ever asked me to check their English before, whereas I had ...
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Email greeting for a teacher I've never met
I've only studied Japanese for two semesters, 10 years ago, so this is a really basic question...
If I'm emailing a teacher at an American university (let's call him 塚中) that I've never met before to ...
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How to address a formal email response to a 学会本部事務局 when you don't know if the person is a 教授 or not?
I received the following email and I want to submit the 要旨, but should I address the body of my email to 加島 or to 本部事務局?
I did a Google search for her full name but I didn't find it on a university ...
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How do I properly tell someone to proceed with a transaction in an email?
Today, I received the following email after an online purchase:
この度はご注文いただき誠にありがとうございます。
頂きましたご注文の発送方法について、EMS(国際スピード郵便)による配送となりますので、 送料が1,500円かかります。
よろしければ、クレジット決済金額の変更をし、商品を発送いたします。 ...
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How to say "email me at this mail address"?
I was wondering how I would say to someone that they can reach me at this email address or they can mail me here at this email address.
I would guess it would use the potential form of send for ...
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3rd person references in formal emails
I deal with lots of formal emails (within the company) that refer to unnamed 3rd parties. The first reference is 「研究者」. If I want to use "they" later in the email, what should I use? I've seen both 「...
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Greetings to use in email enquiries
As a potential customer, how should I start and end an email if I am emailing a business, for example, to ask about a product? How should I introduce myself? Would I need to use 謙譲語 and 尊敬語?
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How to reply to a business email with "yes, I'm ok with this time frame"?
So I received an email from one of our suppliers who aims to visit my company and have a meeting with me, the main part of it is
12月5日(金)13時以降にご都合は如何でしょうか？
Now, I am fine with the mentioned date/...
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How do you politely and gratefully reply to an invitation to be published?
Is there a set phrase for politely replying to an invitation to have your academic paper published as a journal article?
I presented a paper at a Japanese academic conference, and I've received an ...
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Ending an email in Japanese to your sensei?
I am learning Japanese, and was wondering how to end an email to my Japanese Sensei?
Like something similar to Regards or Thank You. A more respectful way to end an email.
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What's the appropriate 挨拶 for e-mails to a friend and for e-mails to customer service?
Most of the time when I'm composing e-mail in Japanese it's either:
A friendly, informal e-mail to a friend
A request for tech support or similar customer service
When composing these e-mails I tend ...
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What to call the characters-based decoration found in many announce emails
Many emails received from Japanese companies contain characters-based dingbat-style ornament like this:
■□■□■□────────────────────────────
blablablablablablablabla
────────────────────────────■□■□...
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Polite way of asking if someone's received an email
What's a polite way of asking in an email if you've received a previous email?
In my case, "polite" means "I'm emailing the tourism information staff of a place that mainly deals with domestic ...
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How does one write P.S. (post scriptum) in Japanese?
How does one write P.S. (post scriptum) in Japanese?
Dictionary translates postscript as 追伸, but is that the compound one would use at the end of a Japanese letter or e-mail?
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How do you say I am emailing something and attaching it to the email?
I am usually confused if I am going to use 入れます or 付けます when specifying that I attached something to the email.
For example:
最新の帳票サンプルを添付して入れます。
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最新の帳票サンプルを添付して付けます。
I would usually say that I ...
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When to use ご返事 and お返事?
Here is a discussion about whether to use ご返事 and お返事, but there seems to be diverging opinions:
ご返事:
ご返事 is 謙譲語 (according to No.1)
ご返事 is seldom used for 尊敬語 (according to No.5)
ご返事 is for 謙譲語 AND ...
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Business Japanese: what's the proper way to say "please visit [this URL]"?
I'm writing a business e-mail to a Japanese speaking person, and I need to direct them to a certain URL. In English I would write "please visit http://www.example.com". I'm not sure the best way to ...
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How should I start an email when requesting something from someone I don't know well?
In English, there is a certain etiquette to follow when writing a business letter. From what I've seen so far, the same seems to be true in Japanese as well.
If I was making a business-related ...
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Which kanji to use for saying ありがとうございます in emails?
When sending emails, I've noticed that Japanese colleagues use all sorts of kanji/kana combinations for the simple phrases ありがとうございました and よろしくおねがいいたします.
For example:
ありがとうございました
有難うございました
有難う御座いました
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