In Japanese, "What is your job?" is 仕事は何ですか？ (shigoto wa nan desu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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仕事は何ですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as shigoto wa nan desu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "shee-goh-toh wah nah-n deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam仕事は何ですか？ is romanised as shigoto wa nan desu ka ？. Say it roughly like "shee-goh-toh wah nah-n deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
仕事は何ですか？ is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
仕事は何ですか？ is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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