Lingo Mastery Intermediate Japanese Short Stories: 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
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Are you on your way towards learning Japanese and need a new challenge? We're constantly trying to improve and master new skills, and the Japanese language is no exception. A skill that can help open important doors in business and tourism, knowing Japanese will lead you towards a huge number of opportunities in life that will be worth every second dedicated to your studies. Because of this, we have created the next level of Japanese stories for the students who have already surpassed the beginner level: Intermediate Japanese Short Stories! In this book we have compiled 10 challenging, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to boost your grasp of the wonderful Japanese tongue. How Intermediate Japanese Short Stories works: - Each chapter possesses a funny, interesting and/or thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn about the Japanese culture. - Having trouble understanding Japanese characters? No problem - despite being Intermediate Japanese, we have still included a romanization to help guide you through your learning process, just like in the beginner stories! - The summaries follow the story: 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'll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Don't 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. 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 mastering the Japanese tongue; 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 Intermediate Japanese Short Stories and level up your Japanese language learning right now ! Review: É o que diz ser - Um produto muito bom para praticar o japonês. Não precisa ser do intermediário para entender, embora obviamente a leitura se torne mais fácil conforme o nível adquirido. Recomendo para todos que estão na metade do básico ou já no intermediário! Review: Super - Super intéressant. En japonais avec kanji et en anglais(ce qui est bien c'est que le texte anglais est après la nouvelle en japonais) il faut déjà un bon niveau pour le lire
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G**O
É o que diz ser
Um produto muito bom para praticar o japonês. Não precisa ser do intermediário para entender, embora obviamente a leitura se torne mais fácil conforme o nível adquirido. Recomendo para todos que estão na metade do básico ou já no intermediário!
B**C
Super
Super intéressant. En japonais avec kanji et en anglais(ce qui est bien c'est que le texte anglais est après la nouvelle en japonais) il faut déjà un bon niveau pour le lire
A**S
enjoyable
enjoyed it well curated set of stories and meets the level of intermediate learners
S**O
Judge carefully your learning material
Now, don't get me wrong. The title is meant as a warning and the book is not inherently bad or anything. Just be careful with what they say in the description and always err on the side of safety: most of the times the authors would try to fish as many buyers as they can so they just slap pretty words or innaccurate statements here and there. That being said, let's also clarify that I'm not really a beginner to japanese and I have in posession a good variety of material on which my opinion is based on. (But do keep in mind it is my opinion only, so it may not be true for everyone). The book is marked as "Intermediate" but in my eyes it's just slightly above the beginner level. In literature it's quite common to find a certain variety of words in stories so just because certain words have been classified as either N4, N3 or even N2, it doesn't mean the actual difficulty of the text is on par with that level. From what I could tell, this book does have those words, yet the grammar being used is really easy, not to mention quite redundant: I've lost count of how many lines were repeated twice close to each other, and don't even get me started on how "direct" speech has been portraied (after every quote you'd have "he said" or "she replied" and stuff like that, and if there are a lot of interactions you can guess how it gets tiring quickly). I can imagine the care the author(s) put into the book (the stories look written by a foreigner who lives in the country, probably) and besides a few missing furigana and some typos (and let's face it, using "hu" instead of "fu" in romaji looks awful) I can still appreciate the stories, and besides the redundancy I could still keep going. I'm not sure if it's because I've also attempted to read more difficult stuff in the past, but it didn't really pose the challenge I was expecting. If I were to suggest this to someone, I'd say that for grammar it's perfect for someone getting out of N5 because of the really simple and easy-to-follow approach to the story, while if it's just about the words being used you might want to hold off for a bit, for when you get aquainted a bit more with kanji (unless you're a masochist and just want to learn them by rot memory). If you watch a lot of stuff and/or somewhat understand half of what a normal japanese person would use in their daily life, you might use this as more of a freshener rather than "learning" material in my opinion. The "intermediate" part of the japanese language is the biggest chunk of it, so I guess they didn't really lie when they used the word for their book :)
J**E
Lo esperado
Un libro con buen nivel de Japonés y relativamente fácil de seguir, se repiten las ideas para reforzar el mensaje del texto. Mejor esto que ofrece un pequeño reto (si ya sabes un poco de Japonés p.ej: N5 estudiado) que algo más básico. Por supuesto no hay gramática, pero el listado de vocabulario está bien. El único pero (aunque no molesta mucho) es incluir romaji en el listado de vocabulario... sobra completamente en este nivel. Muy recomendable como complemento al estudio y para leer japonés en contexto.
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