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Japanese Stories for Language Learners

Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)
By Anne McNulty and Eriko Sato, Ph.D. and Eriko Sato
Series: Stories For Language Learners
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Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers a collection of traditional Japanese tales designed for language enthusiasts keen to improve their skills. Each story is presented in both English and Japanese, providing authentic cultural insights alongside practical language practice. Accompanied by vocabulary lists and comprehension questions, this book serves as an engaging resource for learners seeking to deepen their understanding of both the language and the rich storytelling traditions of Japan.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book may appeal to you if you're eager to enhance your Japanese language skills through engaging, culturally rich stories. It combines language learning with insights into traditional and modern Japanese tales, making it an enjoyable and educational experience for learners at different proficiency levels.

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Japanese Stories for Language Learners

A great story can lead a reader down a rabbit hole of discovery-especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman) . These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th century authors:

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A great story can lead a reader down a rabbit hole of discovery—especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with Japanese and English language versions appearing on facing pages.

Taking learners on an exciting cultural and linguistic journey, each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises.

The first two are very famous traditional folktales: Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman). These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th-century authors: Kumo no Ito (The Spider's Thread) by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), Oborekaketa Kyodai (The Siblings Who Almost Drowned) by Arishima Takeo (1878-1923), and Serohiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist) by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933).

The latter stories are unabridged and unedited except for the addition of furigana pronunciations above the kanji characters. Reading these stories in the original Japanese—and hearing native-speakers read them aloud in the accompanying free audio recording—helps students at every level deepen their comprehension of the beauty and subtlety of the Japanese language.

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Japanese Stories for Language Learners is praised for its effectiveness in helping serious Japanese learners through engaging stories. Reviewers appreciate its dual-language format, with English on one side and Japanese on the other, making it easy to check translations. The inclusion of vocabulary lists at the end of each story is highlighted as a helpful feature for enhancing vocabulary learning.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9784805314685

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 August 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Tuttle Publishing

Illustration: Includes Free Online Audio; Bilingual Japanese and English text; b&w illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Rose Goldberg

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 397g

Pages: 192

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Anne McNulty Education & Reference Eriko Sato Eriko Sato, Ph.D. Non-Fiction Series: Stories For Language Learners

About the Author

Anne McNulty is a senior at Stony Brook University. She is enrolled in the Honors College and majors in Linguistics with a concentration in Asian and Asian American Studies. She has been studying Japanese since 2011, and her research interests include translation theory and Japanese and Korean linguistics. Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies at the State of University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is also the Director of the Japanese Teacher Education Program. She has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including Essential Japanese Grammar, and Learning Japanese Kanji.She has also authored or co-authored Contemporary Japanese, Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Japanese Phrases for Dummies, Basic Japanese and My First Japanese Kanji Book.

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