Oct. 27, 2025
The cramped room
If you are a university student living alone, I want to ask you, does your room have enough space?
One of my friends, who comes from the countryside in northeast Japan, is now living in Tokyo to attend university there.
When I visited and stayed at her apartment, I was surprised because her room was very cramped. When I open the door, there is a kitchen in the corridor. She has only one living room in which there are a desk, a bed, and some musical instruments.
I had to sleep at the space between a desk and a bed.
However, this is not an unusual thing among university students.
If you are a university student living alone, I want to ask you, does your room have enough space?
Ask "you" is implied here because you've already addressed the reader earlier in the sentence, and the question is also phrased about "your room", so it's a little more natural to omit the extra "you" here
When I opened the door, there iwas a kitchen in the corridor.
She has only one living room in which there areis a desk, a bed, and some musical instruments.
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This is pretty common among university dorms - actually in student accommodation here, often the bathrooms and kitchens are shared rather than being in specific student's apartments.
Some students with more money rent regular apartments too and would have more space, but this has gotten more expensive in recent years, so normally if students rent regular apartments, it's a group of students renting it together.
Oct. 30, 2025
Thank you for your corrections and feedbacks.
My university also has dorms. I'm thinking about writing about it later.
One of my friends, who comes from the countryside in northeast Japan, is now living in Tokyo to attend university there.
When I open the door, immediately there is a kitchen in the corridor.
"immediately" is like まっすぐに. It helps emphasize the fact that you were surprised by the immediate position of the kitchen. 「Immediately」の言葉は「キッチンの位置はびっくりしている」の意味を示す言葉です。
She has only one living room in which there areis a desk, a bed, and some musical instruments.
The particle you use should reflect the first item in the list, and since "desk" is singular, you should use "is". An example when you could use "are" is this: "There are markers, a highlighter, and a pen on the desk".
I had to sleep atin the space between athe desk and athe bed.
"In" emphasizes the location where you are sleeping. "At" is more broad and not really used alongside "to sleep". Make sure to use "the" rather than "a" when you want to discuss a specific desk and specific bed. This is the desk and bed is not random, but your friend's, so you should use "the desk and the bed" to emphasize that unique situation.
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Great writing and points. Overall the message was clear and I liked you proving your point through personal experience. I suggest to practice how to use your grammar and adverbs because those would help make your sentences more engaging and thought-provoking. In America, dorm situations are not much different, though it depends on which university you go to.
I'm studying Japanese now and have been making some journal entries on this website, so maybe we could work together and correct each other's journals in the future!
Oct. 30, 2025
Thank you for your corrections and feedbacks. Yes, using adverbs effectively is one of the most difficult parts of writing for me.
If you are a university student living alone, I want to ask you,: does your room have enough space?
One of my friends, who comes from the countryside in northeastern Japan, is now living in Tokyo to attend university there.
When I visited and stayed at her apartment, I was surprised because her room was very cramped.
When I opened the door, there is aI noticed that the kitchen was in the corridor.
She has only had one living room in, which there arehad a desk, a bed, and some musical instruments.
I had to sleep atin the space between athe desk and athe bed.
However, this is not an unusual thing among university students.
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Pretty good! There wasn't that much to fix. In my experience, unless they're staying with their parents or they're rich, it is very rare for university students to not stay in cramped rooms. This seems to be true everywhere, not just in Japan.
Oct. 30, 2025
Thank you for your corrections and feedbacks.
Yes, at first I thought it was something unique to Japan, especially in Tokyo, because the cost of living and land prices there have been rising rapidly. But I’ve realized that this seems to be true everywhere, at all times.
If you are a university student living alone, I want to ask you, does your room have enough space?
One of my friends, who comes from the countryside in northeast Japan, is now living in Tokyo to attend university there.
When I visited and stayed at her apartment, I was surprised because her room was very cramped.
When I opened the door, there iwas a kitchen in the corridor.
This should be in past tense since you're talking about something that happened.
She hasd only one living room in which there arewas a desk, a bed, and some musical instruments.
See above for note on tense.
I had to sleep atin the space between athe desk and athe bed.
Since you've specified that there is one desk and one bed in the room, here you should use "the" to refer to them instead of "a".
However, this is not an unusual thing among university students.
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When I was at university I was quite lucky because I was in a studio apartment for my first year. It was expensive, but there was a lot of space.
Oct. 30, 2025
Thank you for your corrections.
I had never heard the term "a studio apartment" before, so I looked it up. It means a room that combines the living room, bedroom, and kitchen into a single space. In Japanese, we express it as "ワンルーム/1R" which is directly transrated into "one-room". My friend's apartment I mentioned in this writing is "ワンケー/1K", it's an abbreviated form of "one-kitchen".
The difference beteeen 1R and 1K is whether the kitchen is in the living room nor not.
When you visit Japanese real estate website (like SUUMO), and look for rental apartments, you can see listings labeled "1R", "1K", "1DK", "1LDK"and so on.
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