Sale Lifetime access for $30 $60 from 1 November · Every level, N5 to N1 Get it
New JLPT mock tests · Full exams from past papers, timed like the real exam Take one

シャンソン[しゃんそん] (shanson)

chanson; French music

  • Extra
  • Pitch 1

Meaning

シャンソン (しゃんそん, shanson) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “chanson; French music”.

Example sentences 6

彼かれはフランス語ごでシャンソンを歌うたった

He sang the chanson in French.

赤いドレスを着たあの女性はシャンソン歌手だ。

That woman in the red dress is a chanson singer.

ムード歌謡、シャンソン、ラテン音楽、等の歌手にも演歌歌手と同様の傾向がある。

Singers of mood kayo, chanson, Latin music, etc. show the same tendency as enka singers.

シャンソン好きの中平は、『街燈』の主題歌を自ら作詞して旗照夫に歌わせた(作曲は佐藤勝)。

Nakahira, who loved chanson, wrote the words to the theme song of "Gaito" and made Teruo HATA sing it (composed by Masaru SATO).

Sale

Practice JLPT membership

Every mock test, practice test and reading passage, N5 to N1, and unlimited voice lessons.

$5 a month, or $30 once for lifetime$60 from 1 November

See membership

New

JLPT mock tests

Full exams from past papers, section by section on the real exam clock, with the original listening audio. Mock test 1 is free at every level.