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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

初対面:名前と所属を伝える
Hi, I'm Kenji. I work in the marketing team.
初対面:出身を伝える
I'm from Osaka, but I live in Tokyo now.
初対面:会えてうれしいと伝える
It's really nice to finally meet you.
初対面:相手の名前を聞き返す
Sorry, could you say your name again?
初対面:仕事の内容を一言で説明する
I design mobile apps for a small company.
初対面:共通の知人に触れる
I heard a lot about you from Sarah.

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