Hello Junkie! Ratchet o rabote vracha anesteziologa reanimatologa visshej kategoria. The best way to learn Japanese? Out of necessity.

Especially if you’re sitting at home and freezing because you can’t figure out your Japanese air-conditioner. Learn Japanese or die, baby. I’ll guide you through. The Japanese Air Conditioner. It’s worse than Japanese toilets, and Japanese toilets are pretty DAMN awesome. Perhaps I’m making a bad comparison here. But anyways, you should call it an aircon, spelled エアコン in Katakana.

It has all these buttons on there and all you’re hoping for is “HOT,” “COLD” and “INTENSITY,” right? They decided to latch on more features. So, let’s translate the Japanese aircon remote kanji and learn some Japanese in the process. And hey, if you want to learn & speak Japanese with a complete learning system, (2,000+ audio/video courses, apps, study tools and more) and start learning!

Using Remote Controller BRC1C61 Dear Owner, Thank you for installing a DAIKIN Fully Ducted Air Conditioning System. We believe that you have purchased the best air conditioning system available. Before operating the air conditioner please read this operating manual carefully. Apr 26, 2015 - Aircon tend to have many buttons and exotic functions. Most aircon are operated with a remote control with no buttons whatsoever on the unit.

I recommend ’em as a teacher & learner. By the way, the remote control is called リモコン. And here’s a spiffy looking picture of my Daikin remote control.

So, the top says 設定温度 (せっていおんど) meaning “setup temperature” or your set temperature. I’m stayin’ nice and hot with 30 degrees Celsius. Of course, this リモコン is loaded with all kinds of functions. Oh, functions! You’ll need to know that in Japanese. Function: きのう or 機能.

Now, on the left side of the screen, you have the following: • 自動: (jidou) Automatic mode. I have no idea how or why and what is automatic. • ドライ: (dorai) Meaning dry. It’s a cool breeze. I have no idea why it’s dry though.

• 冷房: (reibou) Meaning “cooling” or “Air conditioning.” Use it for cold air. • 暖房: (danbou) Meaning “heating.” Use this to warm your room up. • 送風: (soufuu) Just the fan. To the right of the screen, you have: • 風向: (ふうこう) meaning “wind direction” or where your AC is blowing. • 風量: (ふうりょう) meaning “wind speed” or how much air you’re blasting right now.

Now below the screen, above the big yellow button. • 運転: (うんてん) meaning “operation” but it actually just means “ON.” Turns the AC on. • 停止: (ていし) meaning “stoppage” or “halt” but it actually means “OFF.” Turns the AC off. And all those buttons below. • 運転切替 (うんてんきりかえ) meaning “change operation.” Use this to switch from hot, cold, dry, fan, etc. • 温度 (おんど) meaning “temperature.” Press this up or down to raise or lower the temperature.

• 風量: (ふうりょう) meaning “wind speed” and uses to change the intensity of the air blown out. • 快眠: ( かいみん) means “pleasant sleep.” Correct me if I’m wrong but this setting reduces the temperature as you’re sleeping and raises it around the time you get up in order to ensure a pleasant sleep? Just works with the “cooling” setting. • 風向: (ふうこう) meaning “wind direction. Press it to adjust the direction of the AC air. • 健康冷房: (けんこうれいぼう) means “health cooling” but it’s designed to reduce the degree difference between the temperature outside and inside in case you’re sensitive to it.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. • 内部クリーン: (ないぶくりーん) means “inside clean.” This cleans your aircon from that mildew/moldy smell. You have to hold this button down a bit to make it work.

• 風ないス: (ふりないす）means “nice wind.” Basically, this feature avoids hitting you directly with air. In a cool setting, it aims “up” to envelope the whole room and a hot setting, it aims at the floor. I don’t know either.

• 入タイマー:（いりたいまー）means “timer on” and used to set after how many hours you want the airconditioner to turn on. • 切タイマー:（きりたいまー）means “timer off” and used to set after how many hours you want the airconditioner to turn off by itself. • 取消: (とりけし) means “cancel” and is used to cancel and delete your timer settings.