Japanese Convenience Store Coffee: Vocabulary and Listening Practice

Convenience stores are part of everyday life in Japan. This easy listening lesson uses a coffee-price story to teach words you can use when shopping or ordering a drink.

How to use this listening lesson

1. Listen once without reading the transcript.
2. Listen again and pause when you recognize a word.
3. Read the transcript, review the vocabulary, then listen one more time.

Vocabulary to notice

• コンビニ (こんびに) — convenience store
• 値段 (ねだん) — price
• 値上げ (ねあげ) — price increase
• コーヒー豆 (こーひーまめ) — coffee beans
• レジ (れじ) — checkout
• 安い (やすい) — cheap
• 便利 (べんり) — convenient
• 買う (かう) — to buy

Grammar focus

Use 〜になる for a change: コーヒーの値段が高くなりました。 (The price of coffee became higher.)

Practice after listening

1. Listen once and identify what changed in the story.
2. Find 値段 and 値上げ in the transcript.
3. Say one thing that became more expensive using 〜になる.

When you are ready, use the source episode below for the full Japanese listening practice.

Listen to the source episode

［ニュース］コンビニのコーヒーの値段があがる☕️

Original Nihongo Sayuri podcast episode for this JLPT N4 lesson.

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Level: JLPT N4.