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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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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“I Left The U.S. For Japan — Here's How Much It Costs”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：Japanese, Japan, language, month, yen。這段影片共有 119 個句子、1368 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 9:43。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 141 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 80% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
convenience 名詞	/kənˈvinjəns/	方便, 便利
ramen 名詞	/ˈɹɑːmən/	拉麵 /拉麵, 日式拉麵 /日式拉麵
stove 名詞	/stoʊv/	火爐 /火爐, 爐 /爐
barrier 名詞	/ˈbæɹi.ə/	障, 柵欄 /柵欄
avocado 名詞	/ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/	鱷梨 /鱷梨, 酪梨
bureaucratic 形容詞	/ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/	官僚
electrolyte 名詞	/ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/	電解質 /電解質
extroverted 形容詞	/ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/	外向
freelancer 名詞	/ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/	自由職業者 /自由職業者
hydrate 名詞	/haɪˈdɹeɪt/	水合物
onigiri 名詞	/ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/	飯糰 /飯糰
tatami 名詞	/təˈtɑːmi/	榻榻米, 疊席 /疊席
dryer 名詞	/ˈdɹaɪɚ/	烘乾機 /烘乾機, 乾衣機 /乾衣機
bureaucracy 名詞	/bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/	官僚體制 /官僚體制
rib 名詞	/ɹɪb/	肋骨

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
look up 動詞	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	仰, 上看
write down 動詞		寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 45 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 I'm, don't, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

長單詞——注意重音位置: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, onigiri /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, stove /stoʊv/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, stove /stoʊv/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 convenience, ramen, stove 這類單詞。

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