Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! Vol. 2

by Lingo Mastery

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!
This is the book for you.
No language is easy to learn without reading – 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.
For this reason, we have created another Japanese Short Stories for Beginners title to ensure you can acquire even more learning in this wonderful language that has opened up so many doors for hobbyists, professionals and travelers alike!
Gain vocabulary that will help you better enjoy your shows and video games, meet interesting people and even land you the Japanese job of your dreams with our twenty easy-to-read and entertaining new stories!
How Japanese Short Stories for Beginners works:
You are closer than ever to mastering the Japanese language – with these stories, you will breeze through the beginner level of Japanese like you were born to learn it! Pick up your copy of Japanese Short Stories for Beginners and level up your Japanese language learning right now!

258 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2021

Reviews

[Mat Davies · Rating 3 out of 5]

この本はけっこうよかったです。新しい言葉をいくつか学びました。しかし、質問のところに少し変な選択肢があり、レベルも少しばらばらだと感じました

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mixed feelings

On the upside this book contained many interesting topics and was challenging to read, so was not boring and gave one the motivation to keep reading. On the downside every story had some very specialized vocabulary, not all of which was covered in the appended vocabulary sections, and this necessitated a lot of time spent in online dictionary searching. So this is by no means a book for even advanced beginners and I believe not even intermediate learners could possibly know much of the specialized vocabulary for the topics covered. Such vocabulary is also not retained very long and I would question the value of retaining it anyway given that one is unlikely to be in situations demanding knowledge of it. I appreciate there is a balance between providing interesting subjects that inevitably need more than limited vocabulary and expectations of what potential readers know, however I feel this sometimes erred in using technical terms or complicated phraseology that might have been avoided. Syntax in Japanese is challenging, as is the use of expressions and suffixes quite alien to English, and this certainly presented challenges here but on the whole very worthwhile ones. In terms of layout, the furigana was difficult to read. It would also be helpful to have a means of just pressing the vocabulary references to get to the list and then back to the text without having to scroll back and forth through the (online) pages (not such a problem in printed material but quite time consuming and frustrating here). This said, I would still recommend this book for those willing to bring the necessary hard work and motivation to reading it. How much is retained I will discover in due course! Not a book for beginners however!

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know if the chapters in this second volume even qualify as "stories", they're more informational paragraphs about Japanese culture followed by a short fictional dialog, or something in that vein, but still sufficiently good reading material for learning purposes.

[Tom Nicholls · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book, but definitely geared toward intermediate Japanese learners. It's divided into 20 engaging, wide-ranging topics, and I really appreciated that it includes furigana for all the kanji. A very useful study guide that I'd recommend to learners of Japanese.