How to say "audition" in Japanese

• オーディションCommon
  nounCovers the performing-arts sense: a trial performance at which a singer, actor, or musician is evaluated for a role or a place in a group. It is the common word for this situation.
  彼女かのじょは先週せんしゅうオーディションを受うけた。↗

  She went in for the audition last week.
• 試聴しちょう
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers the trial-listening sense: listening to a recording to judge it, such as sampling a record before buying. A less common word, and not the one for a performer's audition — use オーディション for that.

Use 「オーディション」 for the performing-arts audition, where performers are judged for a role or a place in a group; 試聴, a less common word, means trial listening to a recording, such as sampling a record before buying.

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• オーディションaudition
• 試聴しちょうtrial listening (e.g. to a record before buying)