Japan - How to #19 - Status

For more information on this please look here: http://www.thejapanchannel.com/Japan-Forum/index.html

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• japan
• japanese
• thejapanchannel
• how
• to
• culture
• trend
• fashion
• san
• kun
• chan
• sama
• address
• name
• status
• yt:stretch=4:3

[TheChopstickWitch]

I understand high school girls often call their their (guy) classmates "Kun". . but why does a wife call their husband "san"?

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

@TheChopstickWitch

They don't usually.

[RAZRHANDS]

Just wondering if it would be rude to ask a japanese person what they would prefer to be called?.... or would they down play it in an attempt to be modest?

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

@RAZRHANDS

Would put them in an uncomfortable position.

Just better to use family name + san until they say otherwise.

[sugarholic100]

Say is it really that rare for really close friends to just call each other by their names. Cos from what i understand you only call someone by their names without an added suffix if you have a strong friendship with them. Just wondering?

[CeaNer]

it is very similar in turkey

[310BPM]

My Japanese teacher's children call me "ケイリーちゃん", but I think ちゃん in that sense is more like we're friends and they like me a lot, rather than that they're my 先輩. I don't know if they consider me their 先輩, though.

[310BPM]

@jodelle6

watch "ダウンタウンのガキの使いやあらへんで".

adult men using the suffix "ちゃん" with each other. :)

[310BPM]

@mizlilly236

no, not just "san". lol.

[310BPM]

@qwertyb18

nah.. probably just Chan-san.

[neomysterio]

funny

[kidddflash]

I thought "dono" was the highest title you can give someone

[qwertyb18]

So Jackie Chan is Jacki Chan San, or Jackie Chan Chan?

[jodelle6]

funny, i've never heard boys call each other chan. i really though it was only for kids and girls.