Book(s) on keigo/honorifics for non native speakers?

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1. There are the two “Japanese for Business People” texts: “Getting Down to Business” and “We Mean Business” by Three A publishing. I used the first in a class and self-studied the second. Pretty old-school textbooks, but they cover a good amount of ground. Try and get copies with the CDs.

   (Reminds me I should brush up on my keigo too, I’m getting rusty…)

2. “A handbook of common japanese phrases” (sanseido) seems to me complete.

   [https://pdfcoffee.com/common-japanese-phrases-handbook-pdf-free.html](https://pdfcoffee.com/common-japanese-phrases-handbook-pdf-free.html)

3. If it’s specifically for Keigo, I’ve used “新・にほんご敬語トレーニング”, it has good contrasting examples where it has a “failed” or “bad” conversation where the person says something usually not quite rude but not quite appropriate for the situation, and then the same conversation in appropriate language. Not 100% of the situations are business, but most of them are.