Japanese for everyday tasks in Japan: understanding convenience store staff, reading dates and times, reading names on documents, slang, traffic signs and the driving test.
Real situations foreigners in Japan face that textbooks rarely teach: questions at the convenience store counter, dates and times written the Japanese way, names on documents, young people's slang, and ordering drinks at an izakaya.
Words and phrases are taken from how Japanese people actually talk in those places — at the counter, at the clinic, on the paper they hand you. Not sample sentences written for a classroom.
This kind of Japanese isn't on any exam, but without it every small task in Japan becomes stressful.
Everyday Japanese games (13)
Japanese for taking your child to the doctor（小児科ナビ） Understand the 問診票 before the appointment and describe your child's stuffy nose, wheezing and shortness of breath — 60 words and phrases from the pediatric clinic.
Japanese at the dermatologist（皮膚科ナビ） Describe skin problems correctly: カサカサ or ジュクジュク, とびひ or あせも — 50 words and phrases from the dermatology clinic, plus how thick to apply ointment.
Japanese at the ENT clinic（耳鼻科ナビ） A child pulling at their ear and crying at night, snoring, can't blow their nose — 50 words and phrases from the ENT clinic, from symptoms to nasal suction and eardrum procedures.
Japanese at the eye doctor（眼科ナビ） Red, crusty eyes, or a school vision test sheet marked B? 50 words and phrases from the eye clinic: 視力検査, 散瞳, glasses, and how to use eye drops.
Japanese for prenatal care and childbirth（妊娠・出産） From the pregnancy test to bringing the baby home: 内診, 逆子, 切迫早産, and いきんで vs いきまないで in the delivery room — 60 words and phrases.
Read Japanese names（名前道場） How do you read 田中? Pick the right reading from 4 options and climb 9 weight classes from easy to "brain teaser".
Guess the proverb from emoji（絵文字会話） 🐒🌳💥 = 猿も木から落ちる? Decode emoji into ことわざ — once you guess it, you'll remember it.
Order drinks at an izakaya（とりあえず生） 生ビール, ハイボール, 熱燗… — know how to order drinks and understand izakaya culture.
Understand youth slang（若者言葉） それな, 草, 推し, ワンチャン — all over LINE and YouTube, but no textbook teaches it.
Learn Japanese traffic signs（道路標識） 53 signs drawn to the official 標識令 standard: red rings prohibit, blue backgrounds guide, yellow diamonds warn. Each sign notes its trap — 徐行 and 止まれ share the same red triangle.
Japanese driving theory mock test（学科試験） Real 仮免 and 本免 questions: every one is just 正 or 誤, and you need 90% to pass. Tap words in the question to see their reading and meaning; after answering, the underlying rule is shown.