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"Welcome to Japan!"
Translation:ようこそ日本へ！
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おかえりんさい means "welcome back home" , and it's addressed to japanese only :)
It can be for anyone who feels it applies to them. While it may have been that the people who decided to put that in the airports were thinking about a particular group, there aren't any rules about who can think it applies to them.
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When I've stayed at the same hotel again I've had hotel staff recognize me and say that.
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ようこそ (Welcome) 日本 (Japan) へ(To)
The particle is always at the end of a term, so is here.
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I am not very certain.
ようこそ should be a derivative of older Japanese of よい and ぞ, and means "it's really nice…" The full sentence is ようこそ 日本へ いらっしゃいませ.
Hence I am inclined to not saying in the reversed order 日本へようこそ.
it insisted i had to write it this way even though it wrote it the other way before, good to know both should be accepted, reported.
It was accepted for me in Feb '21.
I checked that Welcome can function as a verb in English, so I took a guess
Why is へ at the end ようこそ日本へ、but is in the middle in ようこそへフランス in other example question?
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Not terribly, there's a subtle difference. I believe へ is more used for travel in a general direction and is also pretty much always used with ようこそ
Is this something that a Japanese person would say to you your first time in Japan? If so, what would be the proper response to it?
Why on earth isn't "日本にようこそ" accepted? 199000 hits on Google can't be wrong...
199,000 hits on Google can be wrong. Grammar mistakes are normal in all languages, but not all grammar mistakes become codified into correct grammar. This is probably one of those mistakes that is quite common but won't become accepted Japanese grammar.
How come nobody's talking about how they say the "he$ like "YE" is that normal?
I think it's actually pronounced "eh" in this sentence. someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Yeah that's correct, it's pronounced the same as え when used as a particle (Like in this sentence)
That's the correct pronunciation for え, and so it is correct for へ when it is being used as a particle. The roman letter 'e' isn't pronounced the same when it is used as romaji for Japanese as it is when it is used in English. The vowel sounds in Japanese are much closer to Spanish vowels than English vowels.
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In the lessons I've seen three forms of this phrase: 日本へようこそ 日本ようこそ(pretty sure I've seen this one) ようこそ日本へ
Is one form more acceptable? Are they different levels of politeness? Or are they all equally acceptable and up to partial preference?
The previous lessons were just フランスへようこそ and 日本ようこそへ. Now I'm confused. Are they (日本ようこそへ and 日本へようこそ) the same or not? Please help. Thank you!
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⁎日本ようこそへ is incorrect, it should be ようこそ日本へ or 日本へようこそ. The latter two are the same and interchangeable, but へ attaches to the location not ようこそ.
It is not clear why it is only correct to say "yookooso furansu e", but also only correct to say "nihon e yookooso".
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Both are correct (provided you use youkoso and not yookooso). Just report it if it doesn't accept one of them. You can put the "(place) へ" before or after the ようこそ.
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Can't tell you what's wrong unless you tell us. Whatever you entered is not shown here.
