Japanese Stories for Language Learners: Bilingual Stories in Japanese and English (Online Audio Included)

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.

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.

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

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.

This book has five stories, three are longer and two are quite short. I've asked Japanese people about them, and it seems these stories and their authors are well known in Japan. Each story is written in kanji with furigana, and then in English. Each story also has an index of translated words, with detailed explanations. So, it's not just a story and its translation, its a story with a grammar and vocabulary lesson. The CD is a bit amateur. I listen in my car, and the sound only comes out of one speaker. However, I love listening to the CD. I highly recommend this book, especially for advanced beginner Japanese learners.

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.

It came in great condition and is a very helpful tool for Japanese learners. Great for more experienced readers and for those looking to practice reading kanji and hiragana.

I got the kindle version. If you want to see the english version and japanese version of a page at the same time, I would suggest ordering print. If you need to see tiny letters, I think kindle is easier to make text large enough to see.