Free: The First 30 Days Kit
Get the 30 Japanese sentences you'll need in your first week in Japan
Ward office, bank, phone, landlord, clinic: the exact sentences, with rōmaji, in the right level of politeness.
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Your first week decides how the next three years feel
Every newcomer to Japan goes through the same five counters in the same first week: the ward office for the residence card, the bank, the phone shop, the real estate agent and, sooner or later, a clinic.
English will not get you through any of them reliably. And the phrasebook sentences you find online are written for tourists, in a tone that sounds odd to a clerk who deals with residents all day.
What's inside the kit
The 30 sentences that get you through the five counters of your first week, with rōmaji and English.
The polite form to use with each clerk, so you sound respectful instead of abrupt.
The three questions clerks always ask, so you are never surprised.
A 7-day plan to learn them in 15 minutes a day before your flight.
The kit is taken from my 5,000 words in 90 days method, which covers 3,178 real-life sentences for people who move to Japan. These 30 are the ones my clients use first.
Bernard Duchene, language coach, speaks six foreign languages learned as an adult.