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When I landed in Tokyo for the first time, something about it felt right.

What surprised me the most about the cost of living in Japan is being able to afford everything on my own.

What's a Japanese 7-Eleven without a giant variety of cup ramen?

That's like 80 cents.

I mean, I'm living alone.

Like, I've never been able to live alone.

That was my dream.

Welcome to my Japanese apartment.

Hello.

There's a lot of space out here.

I just don't really know what to do with it.

It's too hot to go outside.

No. I'm Ashley Peters.

I'm 23 years old, and I moved to Tokyo, Japan in January, 2025.

Shibuya.

Currently, I live in Kanagawa.

My city is Nakahara.

From Shibuya, it's about a 15-minute train ride.

So it's really close to the center of Tokyo.

I grew up in Irvine, California, in Southern California.

Until high school, I never really had interest in travel at all, actually.

I thought that I wanted to stay in America my entire life.

Going abroad didn't even occur to me until after I graduated college, and I found that I could become an English teacher in Japan.

I saw a TikTok, I looked up teaching English in Japan, and then I applied to the first one that I saw.

And that same weekend I interviewed, and then a week after, I got the job.

My mom actually helped me move to Japan.

She said she wants to go home, we just got here.

I was working as an English teacher from February to August.

I was making 277,000 yen a month.

The hours were a little difficult, and then I quit.

Now I'm doing social media content for a language app.

I'm also working as a digital marketing assistant as a freelancer.

So right now we're in Shibuya, and we're on top of this building called the Yashira Park.

And my favorite Starbucks is here.

Ta-da!

For the social media content with the language app, I make $175 a week, so $700 a month.

For the digital marketing assistant, I make $25 an hour.

It ranges from 10 hours to 20 hours a week.

In California, I was living in a one bedroom apartment with my boyfriend

and I believe our rent was close to $2,800 split between the two of us.

But in Japan, I pay 74,460 yen a month.

Welcome to my Japanese apartment.

There's no stove, but that's okay.

I have an electric stove right.

Here in Japan, you need to separate your trash.

So I bought this thing from Amazon to separate all of my trash.

Very convenient.

I can only take cardboard boxes out on Saturdays, and it's Thursday.

So these boxes will be in my apartment for two more days, and I can't do anything about it.

Bathroom area.

Their bathrooms always include a bath because it is very prominent in Japanese culture to take a hot bath every single night.

Next is my separate toilet from the sink.

Laundry machine right here.

I installed a pole to hang dry since it's really uncommon for Japanese apartments to have dryers.

Next, coming through my sliding doors is the living area.

If you follow me to the balcony.

Something that is different in Japan I'm not used to.

Metal panels for blocking out sunlight since Japanese summers are extremely hot.

And then my favorite part of the apartment, the reason that I bought it, was because of the tatami room.

Usually these rooms are used for tea ceremonies, but I wanted to feel like I was living the Japanese anime life, so I put my bed in here.

For electricity, it depends on the season.

In the winter, I was paying like 1,500 yen, but now it's closer to 5,000 yen.

For gas, I pay 1,200 yen a month.

For Wi-Fi, I pay around 5,910 yen a month.

In California, I budget tracked like crazy.

I literally wrote down every single expense.

I would limit how often I eat out.

Sometimes I avoid, I didn't like, I'm not gonna say, I just like don't eat because I didn't want to pay.

But here, if I'm hungry, like I just eat.

Salmon, avocado, onions, mayo.

Limited area special.

Salty pork ribs and tuna.

Another thing that I really like about living in Japan is the convenience store culture.

They have packaged chicken and produce.

Now we're at one of the most popular convenience stores in Japan, which is none other than 7-Eleven.

What's a Japanese 7-Eleven without a giant variety of cup ramen?

Most of these sandwiches range from $2.50 and anywhere to $4.10.

You can really make an entire meal just off of convenience store foods.

Okay, here's everything that we got from 7-Eleven.

So, first things first, onigiri,

protein shake, chocolate, bread, piccati sweat to stay hydrated with electrolytes.

And I got all of this for $5.95.

Pretty good haul if I do say so myself.

I would say it's really safe in Japan.

When I was working late nights, I would go to the gym after I got home from work.

So there's multiple nights that I would get home around 1 a.m.

Especially as a woman, I would never do that back home in California.

But it's a really safe area where I live.

One of the biggest challenges moving here is definitely the language barrier and also adjusting to the difference in bureaucracy.

And because I don't speak Japanese and because they're using really specific Japanese words, it makes it really difficult to communicate situations, especially since I left my job.

There's also procedures for that.

They don't like to leave the mail outside your door if you're not home, but because I don't speak Japanese, it's difficult.

There's a lot of procedures for getting a bank account in Japan.

Thankfully, my company settled that for me, but there's been already multiple times where like I'll type in my pin code wrong two times

and then unless I go to the bank in person

and I ask them to fix it I just can't use my card.

I'm currently in that situation I haven't been able to pull out cash for like two months

because I just don't want to go to the bank because I'm scared.

Doctors appointments too.

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There was a time that I needed to schedule an online phone call with a doctor

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but that didn't go well because we couldn't understand each other so I just didn't get the medicine.

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Just a lot of there's actually a lot.

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Maybe some differences between here and the United States.

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Bullet points.

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I rely on AI a lot actually to help me navigate through the language barrier in situations like this

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and making friends and asking them for help.

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So there has been times where I've had my Japanese friends like call my phone carrier or call my bank for me.

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I don't know, I think I just like living here enough to deal with it.

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Also because it kind of motivates me to learn the language more.

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When I was working full-time, I never had the time to do that.

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And now that I have flexible jobs, I can study the language more.

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My social life here is definitely less than when I was in America, just because it is a little harder to make friends.

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You have to really go out of your way.

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And I'm extroverted, so it's okay,

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but it gets tiring here because I can afford my rent and I can afford living by myself.

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It's a lot easier to pursue things that I'm interested in, like studying the language and doing my own content, when I'm not constantly worried about, okay, how am I going to pay rent next month?

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Now that I'm here, I'm just trying to appreciate every single day that I'm here, because unless you're a permanent resident, you kind of have to keep renewing your visa.

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And I think in the long term, I don't want to keep dealing with those bureaucratic processes, especially since I mentioned that it's really difficult to do if you don't speak the language.

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That's why I just want to enjoy every single day while I'm here.

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「I Left The U.S. For Japan — Here's How Much It Costs」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：Japanese, Japan, language, month, yen。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が119文、単語が1368語あります。音声の長さは9:43です。話す速さは1分あたり約141語で安定しており、シャドーイングしやすいペースです。英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は80%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
convenience 名詞	/kənˈvinjəns/	便宜, 便利
ramen 名詞	/ˈɹɑːmən/	ラーメン
stove 名詞	/stoʊv/	ストーブ, 暖炉
barrier 名詞	/ˈbæɹi.ə/	障壁
avocado 名詞	/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/	アボカド, 鰐梨
electrolyte 名詞	/ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/	電解液, 電解質
freelancer 名詞	/ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/	フリーランサー
hydrate 名詞	/haɪˈdɹeɪt/	水和物
onigiri 名詞	/ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/	お握り
tatami 名詞	/təˈtɑːmi/	畳, たたみ
dryer 名詞	/ˈdɹaɪɚ/	衣類乾燥機, 乾燥機
bureaucracy 名詞	/bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/	官僚制
rib 名詞	/ɹɪb/	肋骨
motivate 動詞	/ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/	動機を与える
tuna 名詞	/ˈtjuː.nə/	鮪, ツナ

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
look up 動詞	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	見上げる
write down 動詞		書き留める, 記す

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, don't, didn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を45回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, onigiri /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, stove /stoʊv/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, flexible /ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。convenience, ramen, stoveなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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