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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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本课的词汇与口语要点
这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“I Left The U.S. For Japan — Here's How Much It Costs”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有：Japanese, Japan, language, month, yen。 这段视频共有 119 个句子、1368 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 9:43。 说话人语速平稳，每分钟约 141 个词，很适合跟读。 只有 80% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，词汇难度较高。
视频中的重点词汇
视频中最难的 15 个单词，附发音和释义：
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| convenience 名词 | /kənˈvinjəns/ | 方便, 便利 |
| ramen 名词 | /ˈɹɑːmən/ | 拉麵 /拉面, 日式拉麵 /日式拉面 |
| stove 名词 | /stoʊv/ | 火爐 /火炉, 爐 /炉 |
| barrier 名词 | /ˈbæɹi.ə/ | 障, 柵欄 /栅栏 |
| avocado 名词 | /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/ | 鱷梨 /鳄梨, 酪梨 |
| bureaucratic 形容词 | /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/ | 官僚 |
| electrolyte 名词 | /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/ | 電解質 /电解质 |
| extroverted 形容词 | /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/ | 外向 |
| freelancer 名词 | /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/ | 自由職業者 /自由职业者 |
| hydrate 名词 | /haɪˈdɹeɪt/ | 水合物 |
| onigiri 名词 | /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/ | 飯糰 /饭团 |
| tatami 名词 | /təˈtɑːmi/ | 榻榻米, 疊席 /叠席 |
| dryer 名词 | /ˈdɹaɪɚ/ | 烘乾機 /烘干机, 乾衣機 /干衣机 |
| bureaucracy 名词 | /bjʊˈɹɑ.kɹə.si/ | 官僚體制 /官僚体制 |
| rib 名词 | /ɹɪb/ | 肋骨 |
视频中出现的短语动词
| 单词 | 发音 | 释义 |
|---|---|---|
| look up 动词 | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | 仰, 上看 |
| write down 动词 | 寫下來 /写下来, 寫下 /写下 |
需要注意的发音
说话人用了 45 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 I'm, don't, didn't。请按听到的简短形式来说。
- 长单词——注意重音位置: avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, onigiri /ˌoʊ.nɪˈɡɪɹ.i/
中文母语者容易读错的音：
- /v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, stove /stoʊv/, avocado /ˌɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/, motivate /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/
- 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: convenience /kənˈvinjəns/, stove /stoʊv/, bureaucratic /ˌbjʊəɹəˈkɹætɪk/, electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, extroverted /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹtɪd/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: electrolyte /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəˌlaɪt/, freelancer /ˈfɹiˌlæn.səɹ/, laundry /ˈlɔːn.dɹi/
如何用这段视频练习
- 先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
- 用正常速度逐句跟读，每句重复到你的节奏与说话人一致为止。
- 录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 convenience, ramen, stove 这类单词。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。