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Can you call people from other schools senpai
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2019/12/26 06:06
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Let's say that Mana is a 1st year and she knows two 3rd years; Tanaka, who goes to the same school as Mana, and Sato, who goes to a different school.
I know that Mana would refer to Tanaka as Tanaka-senpai, but would she refer to Sato as Sato-san or Sato-senpai?
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Re: Can you call people from other schools senpai
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2019/12/26 10:48
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He'd be Sato-san. "Senpai" generally refers to your senior within a given group, not an entire field/discipline.
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Re: Can you call people from other schools senpai
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2019/12/27 09:09
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No prob!
It's probably also worth noting that it's not so much that 「Mana would refer to Tanaka as Tanaka-senpai」 as Mana might refer to Tanaka as Tanaka-senpai. Not all students take the senpai/kohai relationship so seriously, and depending on Mana's personality, her relationship with Tanaka, and the school's atmosphere, it's possible she'd call him Tanaka-san, or even just Tanaka. One of the first things my Japanese friends told me when I was doing study abroad in Tokyo was "Hey, we're friends, so you don't need to address us with -san."
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