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Learn to speak in Japanese about the things that matter to you.Massively improve your Japanese vocabulary and speaking skills through listening to articles about these 32 everyday topics.By the end of this book you will:Know the essential Japanese vocabulary for speaking about 32 everyday topics.Feel confident having real conversations about real topics with other Japanese speakers.Know hundreds of new Japanese words and fe...

This e-book gives you a chance to learn something about the Japanese language and culture through an original-manga(comic) featuring samurai.The text contains both Japanese and English. Each Japanese and English page are placed next to each other with the same illustration.There are some articles and explanations about Japanese language and culture listed after the story.We all hope you are interested in traveling to Japan and learning Japanese through this e-book....

Heart-warming bedtime story in two languages (English and Japanese) for children from 2 years. Accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in Japanese and British and American English, printable coloring pages and didactical material for students of Japanese.Tim can't fall asleep. His little wolf is missing! Perhaps he forgot him outside?Tim heads out all alone into the night – and unexpectedly encounters some friends …♫ Listen to the story read by nat...

A wealthy family is cursed with a string of bizarre murders in this classic murder mystery from “Japan’s Agatha Christie,” starring the country’s best-loved detective (Sunday Times).“The diabolically twisted plotting is top-notch.” —New York Times Book ReviewIn 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a...

"If you're scared to do it for the first time, then you can do it with me?" All of a sudden, I felt my teacher's fingers slide into my underwear along with his damp, hot breathing. Is this how I'm going to have sex for the first time...!?

Enjoy and Fully Understand 25 Haiku by Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規, 1867–1902)Haiku fascinates people worldwide—so much emotion and meaning expressed in so few words. Yet, outside Japan, much of its depth is often only encountered in translation. While translations can capture the spirit, the cultural context, wordplay, and rhythm are easily lost.This book is designed for beginner to intermediate learners of Japanese who want to experience haiku in its original lan...

Andersen's classic, in Japanese — every sentence broken down for upper-beginner readers.A barefoot girl tries to sell matches on the last night of the year. No one buys. She strikes the matches one by one for warmth, and each small flame opens onto a vision — a warm stove, a roast goose, a glowing Christmas tree, her grandmother. This volume presents Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" as a Japanese retelling: a Danish story carried into the gentle pa...

The year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year-old MariNaomi finds herself amidst a flurry of major life changes. Newly immersed in the pan-Asian diaspora of San Jose, California, half-Japanese Mari searches for connections to a culture that has so far eluded her. It doesn't take long for Mari to find new love and a new job--at a hostess bar for Japanese expats--in a bid to learn the language and culture. Turning Japanese follows Mari from Northern California to T...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to experience the language within its cultural context.From the outset, learners are presented with samples of authentic language that are context-sensitive and culturally coherent. Instructional time is used primarily to rehearse int...

Read two of Japan's most beloved folktales, broken down sentence by sentence for upper-beginner learners.An inch-tall samurai who takes on an oni with a sewing needle for a sword. A luminous princess discovered inside a stalk of bamboo who turns out not to be of this world. The Inch-High Samurai and Kaguya Hime are two pillars of Japanese folklore — and Kaguya, in its original 10th-century form, is the oldest surviving work of Japanese prose narra...

Struggling to sound natural in Japanese? Looking for a Japanese "text"book that's as fun as it is educational?Learn how to use ninety-nine essential Japanese onomatopoeic sound words with this book and the included Anki flashcard deck and sound files.Japanese has many words that symbolize sounds (onomatopoeia) or soundless actions or feelings (mimetic words).There are two main types of these words:擬音語 giongo—onomatopoeia [a word tha...

★For Upper Beginners Learning Japanese ★Living in shadows and the in-between world of dreams and reality, yokai thrive in Japanese imagination. What are yokai? They are monsters, ghosts, unnatural beings, and even sentient household items. Yokai can be harmless and amusing, or they can be terrifying.Now you can learn about yokai and read stories about them while polishing your Japanese. ♥ABOUT THIS VOLUMEWit...