Japan

Sit at a ramen counter and stay in one meal: headcount, the bowl, one extra, then お会計. Polite です/ます, not a menu of stacked phrases.

One register conversation: heat the snack, chopsticks, bag, point card, pay. Survive the clerk’s questions without a phrase-sheet freeze.

On the platform, ask whether this train stops, where to transfer, and how many minutes. One conversation with staff, not a list of line names.

A gate that will not open, then a charge at the machine. Learn tap, チャージ, and the short apology as one scene, not a list of card words.

Walk one arrival morning as a scene: the immigration booth, then bags, then SIM and cash. Polite です/ます, not a laminated phrase list.

Put です, ます, てください, たい, numbers, katakana, and が好きです through one Osaka convenience store. No new mountain. A working mouth at a register.

Attach て-form to います: 待っています, 住んでいます, 雨が降っています. One shape, two jobs — action in progress, and a state that has already landed.

Put い-adjectives and な-adjectives in the past: おいしかったです, よかったです, 静かでした. The wrong form is おいしいでした — learn why it never sits.

Lock the frame 〜が好きです. Contrast it with を on verbs. Ask 何が好きですか, answer with a thing, a food, a place — still polite です.