Vocabulary

通勤 is the daily loop between home and work — the packed train, the transfer, the walk. 通勤時間 is the commute time everyone asks about when you move.

担当 is having something on your plate officially — the account, the module, the client. The 担当者 is “the person in charge” you ask for on the phone.

管理 is keeping something under control over time — servers, schedules, buildings. A 管理者 is an administrator, and 管理画面 is the admin panel.

Make 営業 yours: write one short sentence about “sales” from your own life, and this word will come back when you actually need it.

Tie 販売 to one concrete moment from your own week in Japan where “selling” came up — a word anchored to a real scene sticks far better than a definition.

提出 is handing work in — the report crossing from your hands to theirs before the deadline. 金曜日までに提出してください is a sentence you will hear often.

提案 is putting an idea on the table — “how about we do it this way?” It works in meetings and in pull requests alike.

依頼 is a formal request for someone to do work — a client asking for a design, a team asking you for a review. Politer and more official than a casual お願い.

指示 is a direction from above — do this, in this order. You follow them: 指示に従う. A pointing finger (指) showing (示) the way is an easy image to keep.

When you meet 指導 in real text, pause on it once — meeting “guidance” in the wild a single time beats ten flashcard passes.