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When I landed in Tokyo for the first time, something about it felt right.
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What surprised me the most about the cost of living in Japan is being able to afford everything on my own.
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What's a Japanese 7-Eleven without a giant variety of cup ramen?
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That's like 80 cents.
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I mean, I'm living alone.
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Like, I've never been able to live alone.
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That was my dream.
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Welcome to my Japanese apartment.
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Hello.
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There's a lot of space out here.
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I just don't really know what to do with it.
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It's too hot to go outside.
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No. I'm Ashley Peters.
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I'm 23 years old, and I moved to Tokyo, Japan in January, 2025.
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Shibuya.
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Currently, I live in Kanagawa.
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My city is Nakahara.
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From Shibuya, it's about a 15-minute train ride.
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So it's really close to the center of Tokyo.
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I grew up in Irvine, California, in Southern California.
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Until high school, I never really had interest in travel at all, actually.
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I thought that I wanted to stay in America my entire life.
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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.
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I saw a TikTok, I looked up teaching English in Japan, and then I applied to the first one that I saw.
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And that same weekend I interviewed, and then a week after, I got the job.
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My mom actually helped me move to Japan.
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She said she wants to go home, we just got here.
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I was working as an English teacher from February to August.
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I was making 277,000 yen a month.
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The hours were a little difficult, and then I quit.
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Now I'm doing social media content for a language app.
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I'm also working as a digital marketing assistant as a freelancer.
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So right now we're in Shibuya, and we're on top of this building called the Yashira Park.
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And my favorite Starbucks is here.
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Ta-da!
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For the social media content with the language app, I make $175 a week, so $700 a month.
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For the digital marketing assistant, I make $25 an hour.
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It ranges from 10 hours to 20 hours a week.
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In California, I was living in a one bedroom apartment with my boyfriend
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and I believe our rent was close to $2,800 split between the two of us.
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But in Japan, I pay 74,460 yen a month.
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Welcome to my Japanese apartment.
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There's no stove, but that's okay.
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I have an electric stove right.
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Here in Japan, you need to separate your trash.
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So I bought this thing from Amazon to separate all of my trash.
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Very convenient.
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I can only take cardboard boxes out on Saturdays, and it's Thursday.
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So these boxes will be in my apartment for two more days, and I can't do anything about it.
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Bathroom area.
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Their bathrooms always include a bath because it is very prominent in Japanese culture to take a hot bath every single night.
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Next is my separate toilet from the sink.
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Laundry machine right here.
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I installed a pole to hang dry since it's really uncommon for Japanese apartments to have dryers.
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Next, coming through my sliding doors is the living area.
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If you follow me to the balcony.
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Something that is different in Japan I'm not used to.
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Metal panels for blocking out sunlight since Japanese summers are extremely hot.
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And then my favorite part of the apartment, the reason that I bought it, was because of the tatami room.
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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.
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For electricity, it depends on the season.
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In the winter, I was paying like 1,500 yen, but now it's closer to 5,000 yen.
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For gas, I pay 1,200 yen a month.
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For Wi-Fi, I pay around 5,910 yen a month.
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In California, I budget tracked like crazy.
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I literally wrote down every single expense.
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I would limit how often I eat out.
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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.
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But here, if I'm hungry, like I just eat.
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Salmon, avocado, onions, mayo.
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Limited area special.
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Salty pork ribs and tuna.
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Another thing that I really like about living in Japan is the convenience store culture.
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They have packaged chicken and produce.
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Now we're at one of the most popular convenience stores in Japan, which is none other than 7-Eleven.
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What's a Japanese 7-Eleven without a giant variety of cup ramen?
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Most of these sandwiches range from $2.50 and anywhere to $4.10.
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You can really make an entire meal just off of convenience store foods.
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Okay, here's everything that we got from 7-Eleven.
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So, first things first, onigiri,
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protein shake, chocolate, bread, piccati sweat to stay hydrated with electrolytes.
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And I got all of this for $5.95.
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Pretty good haul if I do say so myself.
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I would say it's really safe in Japan.
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When I was working late nights, I would go to the gym after I got home from work.
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So there's multiple nights that I would get home around 1 a.m.
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Especially as a woman, I would never do that back home in California.
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But it's a really safe area where I live.
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One of the biggest challenges moving here is definitely the language barrier and also adjusting to the difference in bureaucracy.
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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.
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There's also procedures for that.
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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.
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There's a lot of procedures for getting a bank account in Japan.
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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
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and then unless I go to the bank in person
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and I ask them to fix it I just can't use my card.
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I'm currently in that situation I haven't been able to pull out cash for like two months
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because I just don't want to go to the bank because I'm scared.
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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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Từ vựng và ghi chú luyện nói cho bài học này
Bài luyện nói trình độ B2 này dựa trên video “I Left The U.S. For Japan — Here's How Much It Costs”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: Japanese, Japan, language, month, yen. Video này có 119 câu và 1368 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 9:43. Người nói giữ tốc độ đều, khoảng 141 từ mỗi phút, vừa sức để nói đuổi theo. Chỉ 80% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất, nên từ vựng khá khó.
Từ vựng quan trọng trong video
15 từ khó nhất trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| stove danh từ | /stoʊv/ | lò, bếp lò |
| barrier danh từ | /ˈbæɹi.ə/ | chướng ngại |
| avocado danh từ | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | bơ |
| electrolyte danh từ | /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/ | chất điện li, chất điện giải |
| hydrate danh từ | /haɪˈdɹeɪt/ | hydrat |
| bureaucracy danh từ | /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/ | bọn quan liêu, bộ máy quan liêu |
| rib danh từ | /ɹɪb/ | xương sườn, sườn |
| motivate động từ | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | khích lệ, động viên |
| tuna danh từ | /ˈtjuː.nə/ | cá ngừ đại dương |
| cardboard danh từ | /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/ | các tông, bìa cứng |
| salty tính từ | /ˈsɔlti/ | mặn |
| balcony danh từ | /ˈbælkəni/ | ban công |
| sunlight danh từ | /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ | ánh nắng, ánh sáng mặt trời |
| onion danh từ | /ˈʌn.jən/ | hành tây, hành |
| laundry danh từ | /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/ | giặt giạ, giặt giũ |
Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe
| Từ | Phiên âm | Nghĩa |
|---|---|---|
| look up động từ | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | ngước |
| write down động từ | viết ra, ghi xuống |
Phát âm cần chú ý
Người nói dùng 45 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ I'm, don't, didn't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.
- Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, onigiri /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/
Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:
- Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, cardboard /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, adjust /əˈd͡ʒʌst/, convenient /kənˈviː.niənt/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/
- Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: adjust /əˈd͡ʒʌst/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/
- Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: barrier /ˈbæɹi.ə/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/, balcony /ˈbælkəni/
Cách luyện với video này
- Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
- Nói đuổi từng câu ở tốc độ bình thường, lặp lại mỗi câu đến khi nhịp của bạn khớp với người nói.
- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như stove, barrier, avocado.
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.