Meeting a Japanese Person? Skip Konnichiwa. Say This.
To say Nice to meet you, I look forward to getting to know you. in Japanese, say はじめまして。よろしくお願いします。 (Hajimemashite. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.).
Meeting a Japanese person for the first time? Skip konnichiwa. There is a better opener.
はじめまして。よろしくお願いします。
Hajimemashite. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Nice to meet you, I look forward to getting to know you.
Why this phrase
A Kofuku and Hana first-meeting role-play. Hana plays a new acquaintance. Kofuku demonstrates the proper opener はじめまして and the untranslatable よろしくお願いします, with a light bow. Two-shot intro of both.
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