Originally posted by DrFrag@May 24 2004, 06:03 PM
Fafner, sensei means "teacher" or "learned one". I suspect it's somewhat formal, as my Japanese teacher prefers not to be called sensei. But he does prefer we say sayonara (goodbye) to him than the more casual ja mata ne (seeya later).
I guess I learned this word during my Karate courses when I was a kid, as they were not in a language that a could understand I think I didn't learned it correctly, but calling the professors "master" seemed ok for me
