Have you ever tried to chat on social media with a Japanese person, but can't interesting questions to keep a conversation going? You may even be at an advanced level of Japanese, but if you're not practiced in conversation, you can be at a loss as to what to ask.
With that in mind, we've separated some questions for you to ask in a conversation with a native. These are introductory and common questions to ask with someone you are just meeting or intend to talk to.
The Japanese are simplistic, they can talk about any common topic that you would find awkward talking to a person. In Brazil we already have the habit of meeting someone and asking everything about the person's life, it's not usually like that in Japan.
You should take it easy and ask calm questions and maybe even talk about bread. Answering questions can be easy, but asking them isn't so simple, especially when you're not familiar with Japanese grammar.
Questions to generate topic in Japanese
Let's skip all those questions that everyone knows like good morning, good afternoon, how are you, it's a pleasure... If you don't know these words, we recommend reading the following articles before continuing with this one.
What do you do in your free time?
- What do you do in your free time?
- What do you do in your free time?
What's going on?
- What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
What are your hobbies?
- What are your hobbies?
- What is your hobby?
What ah wrong?
-What's wrong?
- What's wrong?
How's the weather?
- How is the weather?
- How is the weather?
Are you hungry?
- Are you hungry?
- Are you hungry?
What is this?
- What is this?
- What is this?
Where do you live?
- Where do you live?
- Where do you live?
What is your job?
- What do you do for work?
- What is your job?
How old are you?
- How old are you?
- How old are you?
How tall are you?
- What is your height?
- What is your height?
Shall we go out (have fun) one day?
- How about hanging out sometime?
- Won't you come play someday?
What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
- What are you doing?
Questions to keep a conversation going is a very complex thing to write, as there are thousands of questions to ask a person. I hope you enjoyed this short article, if you have any suggestions for questions just comment below. We appreciate the shares!