L'interface est traduite, mais les explications de cette page sont encore rédigées en anglais — le texte pédagogique n'a pas encore été traduit.
Talk about the weather
The universal opener, and in Japan more so.
Read across a row to watch one language climb its own ladder. Read down a column to see nine answers to the same problem. Every sentence is played by your device's voice for that language, where you have one.
| Langue | Closefriends, family, people younger than you | Politecolleagues, strangers, shop staff — the safe default | Deferentialcustomers, clients, bosses, officials | Ce que fait la politesse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 日本語 | adds words | |||
| Français | rebuilt | |||
| Español | reworded | |||
| Deutsch | rebuilt | |||
| Italiano | reworded | |||
| Bahasa Melayu | adds words | |||
| Português | reworded | |||
| Русский | reworded | |||
| हिन्दी | reworded | |||
| ქართული | reworded | |||
| 普通话 | rebuilt | |||
| 廣東話 | rebuilt | |||
| Tiếng Việt | reworded | |||
| 한국어 | reworded | |||
| Türkçe | rebuilt |
The last column asks whether the polite sentence still contains the casual one. Ajoute des mots means the original survives intact and politeness is bolted on the outside; rebuilt means the sentence was remade. Measured on the frames, so the filled-in word cannot skew it.
Cliquez une phrase pour voir ce qu'elle fait.
Vous les voulez pour un métier ou un lieu plutôt qu'un par un ? Circumstances builds a whole set from the situation you are in.