🇯🇵 Japanese Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Japanese | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| Help! | 助けて！ | tasukete! |
| Call the police! | 警察を呼んでください！ | keisatsu o yonde kudasai! |
| Call an ambulance! | 救急車を呼んでください！ | kyūkyūsha o yonde kudasai! |
| I need a doctor | 医者が必要です | isha ga hitsuyō desu |
| The pharmacy | 薬局 | yakkyoku |
| The hospital | 病院 | byōin |
| I feel sick | 気分が悪いです | kibun ga warui desu |
| It hurts here | ここが痛いです | koko ga itai desu |
| I'm allergic | アレルギーがあります | arerugī ga arimasu |
| I lost my passport | パスポートをなくしました | pasupōto o nakushimashita |
| My phone was stolen | 携帯を盗まれました | keitai o nusumaremashita |
| It's an emergency | 緊急です | kinkyū desu |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
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