Daily English chunks for Japanese speakers: hear the situation, say the sentence
This deck is built around situations, not grammar points. You hear an everyday scene described in Japanese — ordering for two, telling a colleague you will be late, asking which stop to get off at — and you say the whole English sentence out loud before the card turns over.
What this deck teaches
Most Japanese learners of English have the words and the grammar but still freeze in the moment. The gap is not knowledge; it is retrieval speed. A sentence you have to assemble from parts arrives too late to be useful in a conversation, so the practice that helps is producing whole utterances until they come out as one piece.
That is why every answer here is a complete sentence you could actually say, not a fragment to finish later. "Could I try this on, please?" and "I think I left my bag on the train." are whole moves in a conversation. Ten situations — introductions, work, shopping, eating out, getting around, phone calls, health, small talk, making plans and things going wrong — give you ten cards each, so the same setting comes back often enough to feel familiar.
The vocabulary is deliberately ordinary. The deck is checked against a frequency list before it is built, so a rare word cannot sneak into a card and turn a speaking drill into a look-up. What you are practising is the sentence, and the words in it should already be yours.
How to study daily English chunks
- Answer before the card turns. Read or hear the Japanese situation, then say the English out loud before you check. Guessing wrong and correcting is worth far more than recognising the right answer on sight.
- Stay inside one situation. Do one group — say, the ten restaurant cards — rather than ten scattered ones. A setting you can handle end to end is more useful than ten unrelated sentences you half know.
- Use Listen mode for the rhythm. Play the deck while commuting or doing dishes. English sentences carry stress and linking that you cannot get from reading, and hearing them repeatedly is what makes your own version sound less flat.
- Swap in your own details. Once a card comes out easily, change one thing: your own job, your own station, your own order. The sentence stays; the detail becomes yours.
Sample cards
Get this deck
Open VoiceCards, tap Add a deck → From a link, and paste this URL:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CcaYEMeuG2nmsbIUwF4DXwGhVmMNb5gUf-JCvcXoD4/editDo not have the app yet? Install it first, then come back and import the deck.