At a Japanese Cake Shop | Slow Japanese Listening for Beginners (JLPT N5)

💡 Today's Question 💡 How many ice packs did the shop staff put in the box? 🎬 At a Japanese Cake Shop | Slow Japanese Listening for Beginners (JLPT N5) Learn Japanese with this slow and clear daily conversation. Perfect for beginners (JLPT N5) to practice listening and shadowing through a simple, relaxing story. In this episode, Riku and Emma go to a cake shop to buy a birthday cake for their share-house friend Saki. Emma orders a whole strawberry shortcake in Japanese, learns how cake sizes and birthday candles work in Japan, and Riku finds out why the staff asks how long it takes to get home. They carry the box home carefully and get everything ready before Saki comes back at 7. Everything is spoken slowly, with Japanese + romaji + English subtitles, so you can follow every word. 🔤 Rōmaji & English subtitles: turn on CC (字幕). 📝 Chapters 0:00 Intro & Today's Question (導入・問題) 0:43 Scene 1: Planning a Birthday Cake (たんじょうびの ケーキ) 3:31 Scene 2: At the Cake Showcase (ショーケース) 6:47 Scene 3: Ordering a Whole Cake (ちゅうもん) 10:14 Scene 4: At the Register (レジ) 12:53 Scene 5: Walking Home (かえりみち) 15:38 Scene 6: Getting Ready for the Party (パーティーの じゅんび) 18:47 Vocabulary Review (今日のことばの復習) 19:21 Answer & Recap (回答・まとめ) 🗣️ You'll learn: ✅ How to order a cake in Japanese (ホールで、ください / Hōru de, kudasai) ✅ Cake sizes in Japan: "gō" (1 gō = 3 cm) ✅ How Japanese cake shops count birthday candles ✅ Why the staff asks "How long until you get home?" 📖 Today's Words: 1. ホールケーキ (hōru kēki) — whole cake 2. ろうそく (rōsoku) — candle 3. おもちかえり (omochikaeri) — take-out, taking something home 4. ほれいざい (horeizai) — ice pack 📄 Free Study Guide (PDF): Download the full script (Japanese + romaji + English) with today's words — free: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... 💡 Practice Tip: After watching, imagine you are at a cake shop in Japan. Try saying: "いちごの ショートケーキを、ホールで、ください。 / Ichigo no shōtokēki o, hōru de, kudasai. / A whole strawberry shortcake, please." 🎧 Great for: ✔️ Japanese listening and shadowing practice ✔️ JLPT N5 beginners ✔️ Daily conversation practice ✔️ Slow & relaxing Japanese study 👉 Like, comment, and subscribe for more slow Japanese stories! #LearnJapanese #JapaneseForBeginners #SlowJapanese #JLPT #JLPTN5 #JapaneseListening #nihongo #日本語 #studyjapanese #japaneseconversation #shadowing #easyjapanese #japanesecake #birthdaycake