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slade
9 juil. 2015

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In what moments do you call someone by their last name?

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pleiades
10 juil. 2015

  • Pays ou région du États Unis

From what I've learned over my time with this language, use the last name with anyone you do not know until they tell you otherwise. It's more or less common courtesy.

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fre3k03
11 juil. 2015

  • Pays ou région du Philippines

you should not call by their given names. if your not familliar to them. you can use it when your'e a close friend, relatives

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mew_mew
11 juil. 2015

  • Pays ou région du Japon

Usually when I talk to seniors at work and stuff, I put さん after their first name even we get close. When I meet a new friend who close to my age or the same age, I would start this conversation: "What should I call you?" and they tell you what you can call them. So most of people might say "just call me Keiko" "Call me Hanako" even you just met them. Its kind of normal thing. So basically it doesn't happen that you have been calling someone by their first name and then suddenly you start calling someone by his/her given name because you get closer with her/him. Of course you can change how to call them though. But I don't do that because I feel kind of weird to change suddenly how to call my friends differently, you know.

I mean I have friends from kindergarten and we are so close but I don't call her by only her given name and she doesn't call me by my given name too. When we met, I was calling her with ちゃん so now I'm calling her ◯◯ちゃん still. It's kind of weird to say without ちゃん now. So I don't think calling someone by their given names means "they are close".

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