マジック・ツリーハウス 1 恐竜の谷の大冒険

Fun to read with friends

The Japanese version of Magic Treehouse #1, includes the first 1 and second books of the series. I read this book with some friends on youtube so if anyone is struggling to read this, you can compare your understanding with ours.

Overal, these books had extremely easy vocabulary, most in the N5, or perhaps N4 area. The only difficult vocabulary words were really in the second half of the book, since they had words like "drawbridge" and such. For example, book 1 had almost no specific vocab words, cuz words like 'animal' and 'wings' are already in the N5 vocab area. I think the only really specific word in there was 'crest' which is the cartalioge on bird's heads like the red stuff on roosters. The first half of the book had 640 unique words, and I would guess the whole book probably only has 1,000 unquie words.

Because of the slight vocab differences, I probably would have rated Book two to be one noch harder than Book 1.

I really enjoy how the book shows both how short form(which is used in books) and colliqual form(which is used via speech) differ. Its fun to see things like って and と right next to each other. The hardest grammar that used quite a bit on these books is the use of いる・くる・いく in the 3rd POV way. As in the 3D camera way (not the future/past tense kid of way) I do not think this grammar point is commonly covered in beginner japanese lessons [I think they mostly just teach the いる・くる・いく's First person POV, which illustrates intent (am I leaving or comming back?)]

Anyway, in case you are wondering いる means the verb is happening within the camera's view point (camera follows verb) くる means the verb is happening toward the camera いくmeans the verb is happening away from the camera For example, "追いかけてくる" all on it's own means"Its chasing toward us/I" even though both the subject and object has been dropped.