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Essential phrases if you want to sound like a native.'\ntimestampUnix: 1726712763988\nslug: 'no-in-japanese'\nh1: 'Japanese Refusal Guide: The Art of Saying No Politely'\nimage:\n  src: '\u002Fassets\u002Fblog\u002Fmigaku-japanese-no.webp'\n  width: 6720\n  height: 4480\n  alt: 'A Japanese woman with her arms crossed in front of her, forming an X, a gesture that means \"no\".'\n  position: 'top'\ntags:\n  - culture\n  - vocabulary\n  - phrases\n---\n\nIf you want to [learn Japanese](\u002Flearn-japanese), you're going to have to learn to say no to some things. At Migaku, we think that one of those things is the classroom approach to language, but that soap box is for another blog post.\n\nIn _this_ blog post, we're going to talk about how to say \"no\" in Japanese. 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