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Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Japanese the fun way! (Teach Yourself)
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Japanese.
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(3.38/5)Good for N4-N3
The book contains a set of 8 short stories of different genres (SF, history, slice of life, fantasy, ...). Each story is structured in 3 chapters whereas the chapters contain a summary, vocab, and questions for reading comprehension (solutions are at the end of the book). It uses Furigana throughout the book for about 95% of the Kanji. For my taste, it was too much. Difficult words are marked in bold and are translated at the end of the chapter.
The stories were ok - but it was still engaging t
I liked the lay out of these stories, 3-4 short chapters approximately 5 pages of text with further information on vocabulary and a few comprehension questions to answer to check your understanding. There was a variety of subjects within the book as well as an additional free bonus story available via ebook using the free code within the physical book. The main book has a audio companion available but the bonus story doesn’t.
I personally feel like the vocabulary section could have included so
Interesting short stories for intermediate readers
This is great collection of short stories for Japanese learners! It covers many genres of stories and manages to write interesting plot while still maintaining an understandable way of speaking for readers with intermediate reading abilities.
There's a glossary of interesting vocabulary, summaries in Japanese, great use of furigana to help you remember the readings and well thought out comprehension quizzes. -1 star because I found some stories a bit silly.
A Tiring Read
My main takeaway from this book is that if you are at the skill level where you are able to read this book, then you really just owe it to yourself to read native material. The short stories are, for the most part, sooo lifeless, predictable, and poorly written that it really doesn't make sense why anyone would choose this over native material that is frankly much better written (and natural).
This book is strange. The vocab selection is pretty much perfect for the level of reader it is targete