Japanese Stories for Language Learners

I love this book, not only it's easy to read and comprehend, but also it explain in detail the meanings and deepest of the phrases and sentence structure.

Like the stories to reinforce my Japanese learning. Using with a tutor with main learning through Minanihongo series. Has Hiragana with the Kanji if don’t know it. Has English translation of story plus a vocabulary with it for some words in case you don’t know them. In my case having Japanese (native speaker) read also and I repeat to reinforce the proper pronunciation. Older and retired to Japan.

good stories, nice Japanese reading practice!

Good Japanese/English book for brushing up on the language! Was packed well & fast delivery!

The cover art is pretty and the story selection is a very good especially for people who have not read many japanese stories. The only complaint I have is the included CD, I don't know many people who still use CDs so it would improve the product if they included a digital key for the audio as well/instead.

Beautiful and very well made. I can’t read this level of Japanese yet, even though this book is helping me a lot. If they publish more books in this series (many languages have two books so maybe they’ll add more books), I will definitely buy them.

This book was just what I was looking for! If you are a beginner it might be hard to read, but if your up for the challenge I say go for it.. The book has the Japanese text on one page and the next page is the English version for easy comparison. It also has vocabulary words to help with unformular terms, so that helps. There are 5 stories in total, and after each story there are discussion questions to get you thinking about the story. Overall glad to add this book to my collection.

I was really impressed with this book. It has 5 traditional japanese folk tales. Two pages side by side are in two different languages, japanese and english. When a kanji is first introduced in the story it has a hiragana reading, but the next time that kanji appears it will not have the reading so it forces you to pay attention and remember readings. At the end of the story the book goes over sections of the text, asks questions on grammar, and explains kanji pairings. Over all very helpful if you know hiragana, katakana and some decent knowledge in kanji.

Highly recommend for English speakers looking to learn Japanese 👌

Japanese Stories for Language Learners is an excellent resource. Though it's a little advanced for me at present, with the help of the notes and English text, I can slowly read the stories. Meanwhile, the accompanying CD lets you hear them being read, aiding with aural comprehension and pronunciation. I plan to go through this book once now but then return to it again once my studies advance, so I can attempt to read more without help from the English translation and notes.

Compré este libro como regalo de cumpleaños. Me pareció una forma excelente de estudiar japones, ya que combina cuentos interesantes con textos en japonés y su traducción al inglés, lo que facilita mucho la comprensión y el aprendizaje. El diseño del libro es muy amigable para los estudiantes, y los temas son variados y atractivos. Ideal tanto para principiantes como para niveles intermedios.

Both english and japanese characters are clear and easy to read.