How should I call someone in street?


Let say some thing have fall from the someone who walk in front of you in
street ! Can I call him/her `anata` or `sumimasen` to notice ? In my country
we usually say `brother` to boy and `sister` to girl .




You should always use a non-specific attention-getter such as 'sumimasen'
first. That should be sufficient. If not, say it louder. If that fails, run up
to them and tap them gently on the shoulder.

What you would call the person who dropped the object depends on who the
person is - namely: their age in general, their age relative to you, their
gender, and their social position relative to yours. To put it more simply,
there are many different terms of address, depending strictly on who is being
addressed.

While you can call someone brother, sister, aunt, wife, husband, grandmother,
grandfather, etc., until you know those forms properly and when they apply it
is much better to leave them alone.

Calling someone by the wrong address can create more of an uncomfortable
situation than is necessary to get their attention.

