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    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
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    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

    By Lingo Mastery

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    About this ebook

    Do you know what the hardest thing for a Japanese learner is?



    Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle…which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!


    You may have found the best teacher in town or the most incredible learning app around, but if you don’t put all of that knowledge to practice, you’ll soon forget everything you’ve obtained. This is why being engaged with interesting reading material can be so essential for somebody wishing to learn a new language.


    Therefore, in this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-read, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful Japanese language.


    How Japanese Short Stories for Beginners works:


    Each chapter possesses a funny, interesting and/or thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn a bit more about the Japanese culture.


    Having trouble understanding Japanese characters? No problem – we provide you with the English translation below each paragraph, allowing you to fully grasp what you’re reading!


    The summaries follow a synopsis in Japanese and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. Use them if you’re having trouble.


    At the end of those summaries, you will be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary from that chapter, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Do not get lost trying to understand or pronounce it all, either, as all of the vocabulary words are Romanized for your ease of learning!


    Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Japanese, allowing you the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Whether it’s true or false, or if you’re doing the single answer questions, don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any — we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!


    We want you to feel comfortable while learning Japanese; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your social circles!


    So look no further! Pick up your copy of Japanese Short Stories for Beginners and level up your Japanese language skills right now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLingo Mastery
    Release dateDec 22, 2021
    ISBN1951949226
    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!

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      Unreadable. The English and the japanese text translation are all on top of each other. Horrible conversion to digital.
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      Unreadable. Text over layered on top of eachother. Lingo Mastery, you really need to sort this out. Found few books from you that got the same review like me. Thanks.

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    Japanese Short Stories for Beginners - Lingo Mastery

    Introduction

    So, you want to learn Japanese? That’s awesome!

    Like any other foreign language, it’s going to open the doors to discover a completely new culture. Whether you’re learning Japanese for work, studies or fun, the knowledge of the language will broaden your mind, let you meet new people, and will become a new page in the thrilling book of your self-development.

    Heard about Japanese being impossibly hard to learn? That might be true. But that’s what we’re here for. Rely on this book that was written with your needs in mind and accept the challenge without any fear or doubts.

    What is the following book about?

    We’ve written this book to cover an important issue that seems to affect every new learner of the Japanese tongue — a lack of helpful reading material. While in English you may encounter tons (or gigabytes, in our modern terms) of easy and accessible learning material, in Japanese you will usually and promptly be given tough literature to read by your teachers, and you will soon find yourself consulting your dictionary more than you’d want to. Eventually, you’ll find yourself bored and uninterested in continuing, and your initially positive outlook may soon turn sour.

    Our goal with this book will be to supply you with useful, entertaining, helpful and challenging material that will not only allow you to learn the language but also help you pass the time and make the experience less formal and more fun — like any particular lesson should be. We will not bore you with grammatical notes, spelling or structure: the book has been well-written and revised to ensure that it covers those aspects without having to explain them in unnecessarily complicated rules like textbooks do.

    If you’ve ever learned a new language through conversational methods, teachers will typically just ask you to practice speaking. Here, we’ll teach you writing and reading Japanese with stories. You’ll learn both how to read it and write it with the additional tools we’ll give you at the end of each story.

    Stories for Beginners? What does that mean?

    We don’t want the word to be misleading for you. When thinking about you as a beginner, we focused on combining two things:

    Judging by our extensive experience, it’s impossible to make any impressive progress by dealing with the material that you are absolutely comfortable with. Dive into the unknown, make an effort, and you’ll be rewarded.

    To make things easier for you, we picked only common words – no rocket science, that’s for sure. You won’t encounter any complex sentences with multiple clauses and prepositions.

    Just take the final step on your own — apply your diligence and work hard to go over to the next level.

    The suggested steps of working with this book

    What if I don’t understand everything?

    Remember — understanding each and every word is not your goal. Your goal is to grasp the essence of the story and enrich your vocabulary. It is absolutely normal that you may not understand some words or structures and that sometimes you may ultimately not entirely understand what the story is about.

    With that said, you will be provided with the very same story again but this time, with the English translation available under each paragraph.

    Other recommendations for readers of Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

    Before we allow you to begin reading, we have a quick list of some other recommendations, tips and tricks for getting the best out of this book.

    Read the stories without any pressure: feel free to return to parts you didn’t understand and take breaks when necessary. This is like any fantasy, romance or sci-fi book you’d pick up, except with different goals.

    Feel free to use any external material to make your experience more complete: while we’ve provided you with plenty of data to help you learn, you may feel obliged to look at textbooks or search for more helpful texts on the internet — do not think twice about doing so! We even recommend it.

    Find other people to learn with: while learning can be fun on your own, it definitely helps to have friends or family joining you on the tough journey of learning a new

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