Does it make a difference whether they teach at my school, even if they don't
teach my class?
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grammar usage word-usage suffixes honorifics
Should I use -Sensei (先生) to refer to a teacher if they aren't my teacher?
As long as you are interacting with the said person in its role of teacher,
you should use 先生. Meaning that you won't if the person is your friend, family
member, partner or any other relationship that doesn't involve its teacher
job, even though it can still be used in this case as a joke, irony or to
emphasis the teacher position.
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Additional Info: As long as you're learning something from an entity (doesn't
necessarily have to be a human being), it can be called "先生" (at least in
spoken Japanese). For example: It is very common for people to say "Google
先生に教えてもらった" (Google sensei ni oshiete moratta) when they learn something new
via Google.
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