霧のむこうのふしぎな町
Children's book
alternative titles:
Mysterious Town Beyond the Mist
Reviews
(3.18/5)June 26, 2021
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For me this book was on the easier side, not at its current L26, but overall more at L22 of 思い出のマーニー. I had an average of 3.1 look-ups/page, even 18 pages with no look-ups at all. Kanji sparse books are no problem for me, on the contrary this makes them an easy read for me, as I come from the watching TV and speaking front, I guess.
Don‘t get me wrong, this book has its more difficult parts, like the heavy use of dialect in the first 15 pages, or the one or other grammar point beyond N3 in cha
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Gradings
Why can't I grade this item?
I think many of us read this because we heard that parts of it inspired “Spirited Away,” but really it’s only the broad concept of “little girl works in different parts of a magical place” that’s similar. It’s a completely different story.
IMO this book is less than ideal for intermediate language students because it’s written with few kanji and yet has some fairly advanced vocabulary. The particular thing that makes it tricky is that a lot of the atmosphere and characterization comes from