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Japanese Folktales for Language Learners
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Learn about Japanese culture while improving your language skills!
Japanese Folktales for Language Learners presents 22 traditional stories in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages, with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning to intermediate learners. This book can be used as a language reader and will be of great interest to anyone wishing to learn more about Japanese culture and folklore.
The stories in this collection gradually increase in length and complexity as ...
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(3/5)This is a book of twenty fairytales arranged for learners. As with all fairytales, expect a fair amount of bad things and violence to happen. Some of them are famous stories you might have already read, but I hadn't heard of many of the ones here. Each story has a parallel English translation, an audio recording, and cultural notes and vocabulary after the ending.
To compare it with textbooks I have used, I would say you could probably tackle it after completing Genki, as most of the grammar
Fascinating Stories with a Good Length and Difficulty
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The main appeal of this book is the inclusion of the English translation on the opposite page and the dictionary entries in the back. While these may be helpful, I found myself using them rarely. There is also furigana on all newly appearing words (per section).
When reading, I used Shirabe Jisho (a free dictionary app) most of the time, rather than the included entries. I didn't need to flip through pages and was able to do it using an external tool faster.
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