Time and appointments
Practice asking and telling the time, and learn how Japanese speakers tactfully say a time doesn't work.
What this page practisesasking what time it is now · asking start and end times, and departure times · saying you'll be late · arranging and rescheduling times
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Asking the time in six lines
Practice asking the time and telling someone you'll be late.
Arranging a time to meet tomorrow
Practice making plans to meet: suggest a time, politely decline, and reschedule — and watch how 「ちょっと...」 is used.
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Tanaka
十時はどうですか。
How about ten o'clock?
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Li
すみません、十時はちょっと…。
Sorry, ten o'clock is a bit...
Trailing off at 「ちょっと...」 is a polite refusal. Japanese speakers rarely say "no" in full.
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Tanaka
じゃあ、十一時は?
How about eleven, then?
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Li
十一時、大丈夫です。
Eleven o'clock works for me.
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Audio on this page is AI-synthesized speech (Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS), not a human recording; the sentences are original.


