🎙️ Speaking Tests
英検1級の二次スピーチ・TEAP・IELTSなど、自分の国について話す試験で使える
335 entries (page 4 of 6)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- HistoryStandard Heike monogatari平家物語the war tale about the fall of a clan, recited to the lute
- HistoryStandard manyoshu万葉集Japan's oldest surviving poetry collection
- Life EventsStandard omiaiお見合いan introduction with marriage in mind
- Life EventsStandard seijinshiki成人式the coming-of-age ceremony
- Life EventsStandard fufu no sei夫婦の姓why couples must share one name
- MannersStandard senjitsu wa domo先日はどうもthanking someone again next time
- MannersStandard denwa no ukekata電話の受け方phone manners at a Japanese company
- Modern JapanStandard jenda gyappuジェンダーギャップwhy Japan ranks low on gender equality despite high education levels
- Modern JapanStandard baria furiバリアフリーaccessibility in Japan, and the yellow tactile paving it invented
- Modern JapanStandard furusato nozeiふるさと納税donating to another town and having it deducted from your own tax
- Modern JapanStandard pointo keizaiポイント経済why everyone in Japan is asked for a point card
- Modern JapanStandard yakuzaヤクザorganized crime in Japan, and why the offices have nameplates
- Modern JapanStandard hikikomori引きこもりlong-term withdrawal from society
- Modern JapanStandard karoshi過労死death from overwork, and the law Japan wrote because of it
- Modern JapanStandard kaigo介護long-term care, and the insurance system behind it
- Modern JapanStandard gaikokujin rodosha外国人労働者how Japan brings in workers from abroad
- Modern JapanStandard kisho keiho気象警報Japan's tiered warning system and what each level means
- Modern JapanStandard keikaku unkyu計画運休shutting down the trains before the storm arrives
- Modern JapanStandard kokumin kaihoken国民皆保険the public health insurance everyone in Japan is required to join
- Modern JapanStandard zaitaku kinmu在宅勤務why remote work spread and then shrank again in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard josei no shugyo女性の就業where women's employment in Japan stands
- Modern JapanStandard shohizei消費税Japan's sales tax, its rises, and the reduced rate
- Modern JapanStandard jinko gensho to kaso人口減少と過疎a shrinking, aging country
- Modern JapanStandard bun'en分煙where you can and cannot smoke in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard hogei捕鯨why Japan resumed commercial whaling, and how little whale is actually eaten
- Modern JapanStandard takarakuji宝くじthe public lottery, and why the prize is tax-free
- Modern JapanStandard majan麻雀the four-player tile game, and where it sits legally
- Modern JapanStandard otoshimono落とし物why lost things come back in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard tachinomi立ち飲みthe standing bar, where you drink fast and cheap
- Seasons & NatureStandard satoyama里山the managed woodland between the village and the mountain
- PlacesStandard yokohama横浜the fishing village that became Japan's door to the West
- PlacesStandard Yakushima屋久島the southern island of ancient cedars and constant rain
- PlacesStandard Gero Onsen下呂温泉a hot spring town in the mountains of Gifu, famous for its smooth alkaline water
- PlacesStandard kanazawa金沢the castle town that escaped the bombing, and its gold leaf
- PlacesStandard Ginza銀座the expensive shopping district named after a silver mint
- PlacesStandard karuizawa軽井沢the highland resort that began as a missionary's summer escape
- PlacesStandard Kenrokuen兼六園the Kanazawa garden named for the six qualities a perfect garden should have
- PlacesStandard Takayama高山the mountain town in Gifu with preserved merchant streets and festival floats
- PlacesStandard koyasan高野山the mountain monastery where you can stay the night
- PlacesStandard sakurajima桜島the active volcano that drops ash on a city of 600,000
- PlacesStandard Sanjusangendo三十三間堂the 120-meter hall in Kyoto holding 1,001 statues of Kannon
- PlacesStandard Shikoku hachiju hakkasho四国八十八ヶ所the 1,200-kilometer circuit of eighty-eight temples
- PlacesStandard Shurijo首里城と沖縄the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa
- PlacesStandard Kinosaki Onsen城崎温泉a hot spring town in northern Hyogo known for its seven public bathhouses
- PlacesStandard kobe神戸the port city between mountain and sea, rebuilt after an earthquake
- PlacesStandard kusatsu onsen草津温泉the strongly acidic hot spring with the wooden cooling ritual
- PlacesStandard Adachi Bijutsukan足立美術館the Shimane museum whose garden is viewed like a painting, not walked in
- PlacesStandard Nagasaki and Dejima長崎と出島the port that was Japan's only window to Europe, and the second atomic bombing
- PlacesStandard Tokyo Sukaitsuri東京スカイツリーthe 634-meter broadcasting tower in eastern Tokyo
- PlacesStandard Tokyo Eki no ekisha東京駅の駅舎the red brick station building of 1914, restored in 2012
- PlacesStandard dogo onsen道後温泉one of Japan's oldest hot springs, and its wooden bathhouse
- PlacesStandard Nijojo二条城the Kyoto castle where the shogun gave power back to the Emperor
- PlacesStandard Nikko Toshogu日光東照宮the shrine where Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined, covered in carvings
- PlacesStandard Nihon Sankei日本三景the three famous views of Japan, chosen in the seventeenth century
- PlacesStandard Atami熱海the hot spring town that collapsed and came back
- PlacesStandard fukuoka福岡the city closest to the continent, and its street food stalls
- PlacesStandard Byodoin平等院鳳凰堂the eleventh-century temple hall on the ten-yen coin
- PlacesStandard Beppu and Yufuin別府と湯布院the biggest hot spring town in Japan and the quiet one next to it
- PlacesStandard beppu onsen別府温泉the town with the most hot spring water in Japan
- PlacesStandard nagoya名古屋the industrial city between Tokyo and Osaka, with its own food