Guide to Living in Japan

There are roughly three standard coin-operated washing machines in Japan. Coin Washer (4.5kg) One is like this: Coin Washer (4.5kg) This is the most basic and typical washing machine in a small coin laundry.  Things you need to pay attention to: You shouldn't put your clothes into the washer directly. First, you need to press the shower button(シャワーボタン) just right after the coin is inserted.  ( This action is to make the washing machine self-cleaning. ) After the washing machine finishes self-cleaning, you need to open the lid and put the clothes and detergent into the washer. Then put down the lid of the washer, just ok. You must wait until the countdown is over before taking out the laundry. Detailed instructions  In fact, there are detailed instructions on the back of its lid. It says: You must first confirm whether other people's clothes are in the laundry bucket. You can only put 100 yen coins.  And 4, that's what I said before. When 「ソフト剤投入ランプ」(Soft agent lamp) flashes

Causative Verbs: A causative verb expresses a cause, for example, blacken, which means 'to cause to become black.' In Japanese, such verbs are used very frequently. If you can't use it, you can hardly speak, which I realized after I came to Japan. If you want to ask for rest time, you can say this: 休ませていただけませんか。Would you mind me taking a rest? (Let me rest.) 休む ←Click this. You can see all the variations of this word. And I highly recommend this website to query verb deformation, which is very helpful: https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/eng/search/index Causative verbs often use two Japanese particles , " に " and " を." In Japanese, 助動詞 (jodōshi, “auxiliary verbs”) can refer to either inflecting suffixes or auxiliary verbs (verb suffixes that are verbs on their own). Japanese school grammar uses the term in the first sense, and uses 補助動詞 (hojodōshi, “supplementary verbs”) for what are called auxiliary verbs in Western grammar. from:  https://en.wiktion

Transitive verbs 他動詞 Transitional verbs  in Japanese  stress that someone or animal or something else must have participated in this action, eventually leading to the current state. For example: ドア を 開けた。（Transitive verb） Intransitive verbs 自動詞 Transitive verbs  emphasize the state change but don't know who changed the state. The things that change this state may be people, animals, or others. In short, We don't know. For example: ドア が 開いた。（Intransitive verb） In Conclusion Best way to distinguish: If the particle  is  "を," this is a transitive verb.  If the particle is not "を," this is an intransitive verb. Why do I say "is not 'を'"? Because you can also use "は." In fact, we know the difference between "が" and "は."  "が" means to use when stating the facts , and "は" means to compare with others . "は"  emphasizes the content behind it , and "が"  emphasizes the content befo

Before that, I suggest you apply for a Japanese phone number and change the preferred region of the app store to Japan. Some apps can't be downloaded and installed if you don't do this. The most essential app Y! 防災速報 This app can immediately inform you when an earthquake occurs. (Or various natural disasters or man-made crimes and other events that may harm your personal safety.) Its notification is local and will not notify you of information outside the local. Apps for daily traffic Y! 乗換案内 This app can tell you how to get to your destination and which subway to change. モバイルSuica This app has the function of a virtual bus/subway card. But please note that Android and apple are different versions. The Android version can only inherit the regular ticket. I suggest applying for another card directly because it isn't feasible to inherit the physical card to an Android phone. Suica can be used not only on the subway but also on vending machines just like this: vending machine