The Hotel Room Is Black. The Switch Is the Slot.
To say please insert the card in Japanese, say カードを差し込んでください (kādo o sashikonde kudasai).
You stand in a black hotel room flipping switches that do nothing.
カードを差し込んでください
kādo o sashikonde kudasai
please insert the card
In this video
- カードを差し込んでください kādo o sashikonde kudasai Those switches are fine. The slot by the door is the real switch. The card in your pocket has to sit in it.
- カードを差し込んでください。 Kādo o sashikonde kudasai. Please insert the card.
- カード kādo Pocket the card and the lights, the outlets, and the air con all die. Slide it back in. The room wakes up.
- ここにカードを差し込んでください。 Koko ni kādo o sashikonde kudasai. Please insert the card here.
- カードを差し込んでください kādo o sashikonde kudasai Dark room, live switches. Read the slot. 「カードを差し込んでください。」
Kanji in this phrase
- 差し込んで
- さしこんで
Why this phrase
In a Japanese business hotel the room has no power until the key card sits in the slot by the door. The switches are fine. Pocket the card and the lights, the outlets, and the air con all die. The plate on the slot says カードを差し込んでください.
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