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Looking to step up your Japanese before that big trip next year? Are you getting prepared for an interview with a recruiter in Tokyo? Maybe you’re tired of reading the subtitles on the latest anime! No language is easy to learn without practicing - even if you know all of the rules and have watched the videos - you’ll still have trouble. Diving into interesting material (such as stories) can be the difference between mastering a language and never leaving the basic level.

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 learning material can be so essential for somebody wishing to learn a new language. Therefore, in this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-follow, 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.

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.

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

Are you currently learning the Japanese language and struggling to find some good material? Learning vocabulary through stories is a proven concept that has stood the test of time. This book has seven Japanese stories. Each has an engaging storyline that allows you to understand the Japanese culture better. Each story is also translated into English and has a vocabulary list that has been put into a nice table to help you to memorize the vocabulary from each story. So, what are you waiting for? Pick up your copy of Short Japanese Stories for Language Learners and level up now!

For language learners at any level of proficiency, "The 4000 Most Common Japanese Words & Phrases in Context with Mnemonics, Example Sentences, Short Stories, and Dialogues" is a priceless tool. The 4000 most important Japanese terms and phrases are included in this extensive audiobook, together with rich situations that make learning natural and interesting. By using creative mnemonics, students are given the resources they need to remember grammar rules and vocabulary with ease, which makes the difficult work of memorizing vocabulary look easy.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...

One hundred stories. One hundred candles. Most readers stop at ninety-nine. In old Edo, samurai and townsfolk played hyakumonogatari kaidankai, the gathering of one hundred weird tales. They lit a hundred candles on a summer night, told one ghost story per flame, and snuffed a candle after each, the room darkening toward the hundredth. Everyone agreed on one thing: when the last candle dies, something comes. So most gatherings stopped at ninety-nine. This book is the game. One hundred kaidan, retold and original, arranged as a hundred candles to be read one a night until the room goes dark....

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

Bloomsbury presents Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, read by Michelle Sekine. USA Today Bestseller A Debutiful “Best Debuts of the Year” “Rich and wise, humming with confidence.” —New York Times Book Review “A knockout. Eleven knockouts. One KO for every...

Japanese Short Stories for Intermediate (B1) Skill Level: Japanese Reading Practice is specifically designed for learners at the B1 level, offering 30 engaging short stories to strengthen your Japanese comprehension. Each story features realistic scenarios, intermediate-level grammar, and vocabulary to help you build fluency and confidence in the language.

Having trouble following dialogues on your favorite Japanese anime, series, and movies? Do you want to have conversations with Japanese speakers like a native? One of the most crucial skills you will gain as a language learner is the ability to speak like a native. Using the right words, tone, and formality is key to mastering the language, and Japanese is no different! Because of this, we have compiled over 100 conversational Japanese stories for beginners along with their translations.

Interested in learning Japanese, but find the language difficult to study? You're not alone. Learning Japanese is notoriously difficult, but it doesn't have to be. Imagine being able to learn Japanese by reading 25 short, interesting and concise stories that teach you practical vocabulary. As you continue to read, you will be able to master the intricacies of Japanese grammar and successfully turn Japanese into a manageable, everyday language that you can use to communicate with others. That's the goal of this book. And that's why it's so different from other books on the market. FEATURES: ...

イタリア語学習ストーリーで学ぶ短編小説で身につく生きたイタリア語文法書の丸暗記に疲れていませんか本書は魅力的な物語を通して楽しく自然にイタリア語を学ぶためのリーディング教材です最大の特徴は学習者に寄り添ったバイリンガル構成各エピソードはまずイタリア語の原文で展開されそのすぐ後に日本語の翻訳が続きます文脈の中で単語やフレーズの意味を推測しながら読めるため辞書を引くストレスが大幅に軽減されます日常会話のリアルな表現からイタリアの生活や文化を感じられるエピソードまで多彩な短編小説を収録多読やリーディングの練習に最適な一冊です魅力的なストーリーを楽しみながらイタリア語の読解力と語彙力を飛躍的にアップさせましょう

 Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-mid intermediate (ACTFL) level of Japanese. Mapped to B1 and approaching B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening, and most importantly, enjoyment!

Rashōmon (羅生門) by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, first published in 1915, is the story that launched one of the most extraordinary careers in modern Japanese literature. Akutagawa was twenty-three when he wrote it — still an undergraduate at Tokyo Imperial University — and the story is a perfect early demonstration of the method he would refine across the next twelve years of work. He took a brief, strange tale from the medieval Japanese collection Konjaku Monogatarishū, set it in the ruined Heian capital at the end of the twelfth century, and turned it into a sustained study in moral ...

Bloomsbury presents Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster by Mark E. Stille, read by Christopher Ragland. A detailed re-examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy that saw the USA enter World War II. In this the first comprehensive treatment of Pearl Harbor since the...

the new Kyoto When I spent 40 minutes aboard the bullet train bound for Kyoto from Tokyo, an alarming notion popped into my head. “Did I miss Mt. Fuji?” It’s around this time that Mt. Fuji comes into view closely in the bullet train window. Somehow Mt. Fuji is a special mountain for Japanese people. It’s said that seeing the first sunrise of the year from the top of Mt. Fuji brings a happy new year. Many of them want to climb it once during their lifetime. They regard it as something holy and good luck. I myself try to see it every time I take a bullet train to Kyoto, and pray to it...

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...