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In Japan, omurice is written オムライス and read omuraisu. It is a popular home and cafe dish of fried rice wrapped in a thin omelette.

To say subtitle in Japanese, meaning text shown at the bottom of a film or video, use 字幕 (jimaku).

In Japan, katakana is written カタカナ. Katakana is one of the two Japanese syllabic scripts, used mainly for foreign words, foreign names and sound effects.

To ask “where in Japan are you from”, say 日本のどこの出身ですか (Nihon no doko no shusshin desu ka). It is polite and neutral.

In Japanese, hello can be expressed as 今日は. The term is used as a greeting from the late morning until the evening.

The everyday Japanese word for mom is お母さん, read okāsan.