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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

カルチャーショック

karuchaashokku

culture shock

Example sentences

  1. 外国がいこくに行いくと我々われわれは大抵たいていカルチャーショックを体験たいけんする。

    In a foreign country most of us go through culture shock.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. このころに関東かんとうに嫁とついだ上方かみがたの若わかい女性じょせいが、婚家こんかの江戸風えどふうな和服わふくの地味じみさに今いまでいうカルチャーショックを受うけたというエピソードも多おおくあったという。

    During this period, there were quite a few cases of what is now called culture shock, when brides from the Kamigata region married into families living in the Kanto region and had to adjust to the plain, subdued Edo-style Japanese clothing favored by their new family.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 日本以外にっぽんいがいの文化圏ぶんかけんで育そだった人ひとにとって、生卵なまたまごを食しょくする習慣しゅうかんはカルチャーショックであり、時ときにはゲテモノ食しょくと映うつる可能性かのうせいもある。

    For people who grew up outside Japan, the custom of eating raw eggs can be a culture shock and may even seem like eating something bizarre.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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