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Japanese for Visiting Someone in Hospital
A hospital visit is short, and most of what you need is four or five sentences said at the right moment.
6 min readJapanese for Moving House in Japan
Moving in Japan is less about packing and more about a sequence of appointments, each with its own vocabulary.
6 min readJapanese for Getting Something Repaired
Describing a fault is one of the hardest everyday pieces of Japanese, because you have to explain something you do not fully understand yourself.
6 min readJapanese for Taking a Pet to the Vet
Describing your dog's symptoms is harder than describing your own, because your dog cannot tell you where it hurts either.
6 min readJapanese for Buying Second-Hand in Japan
Japan's second-hand market is unusually good, and the Japanese for using it is mostly four questions about condition.
6 min readJapanese for Delivery and Courier Work
A delivery round is a hundred short conversations, and almost all of them are the same eight sentences.
6 min readJapanese for Factory and Manufacturing Work
On a factory floor the Japanese that matters most is the Japanese for stopping something.
6 min readJapanese for Working in Childcare in Japan
Childcare work needs two quite different Japanese registers, and most of the difficulty is switching between them all day.
6 min readJapanese for Research and Academic Work
You can publish in English and still need Japanese for the lab meeting, the paperwork and the corridor conversation that decides things.
6 min readJapanese for Cleaning and Facilities Work
Most of a cleaning shift needs no Japanese at all, and the parts that do are the parts where getting it wrong matters.
6 min readJapanese for Security and Guarding Work
Security work requires you to tell strangers what to do, politely, in a language you are still learning.
6 min readJapanese for Farm and Agricultural Work
Farm work in Japan often comes with a dialect, an early start and a boss who explains by demonstrating.
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