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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5073 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 4 24 August 2013 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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While perusing the NHK World Portuguese site, I happened to click on to a series of three Japanese folk tales translated into Portuguese and eight other languages including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin), English, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese- but not Japanese!. Once Upon a Time in Japan
I can download the audio via my Flash Downloader plugin on firefox. What a shame that there's no text available that I can find, but there is a synopsis, analysis and translation in English available. I think this could be good listening practice. Listen to the English, read the synopsis and analysis in both languages and listen to the TL. The lack of text may actually be a virtue in that it will force listening. Edit: A further search of the translator (I was hoping to find the texts), an American/Australian named Roger Pulvers, lead me to the SCBWI Tokyo Translation Group- Japanese Children's Literature in English. There is an overview of the NHK folktale series along with, for those interested in reading more about translation of children's literature, and those who are interested in finding out more about Japanese children's literature. Edited by iguanamon on 24 August 2013 at 6:14pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| FamusBluRaincot Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 5372 days ago 50 posts - 114 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 2 of 4 25 August 2013 at 8:52pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you. This is a great find, and I would not likely have found it on my own. I only wish there were many more stories at the site. I come to “How to Learn any Language” in hopes of finding posts like this one.
Listening to children’s stories, legends, and science and history lessons has been a huge part of my Mandarin study. I have several thousand stories like these on my Ipod. Many are from China, while others are translations from world children’s literature. One easy way to find similar stories in many languages is to go to Youtube and do a search for “Bookbox Stories”. You can use a program called “Jaksta” to automatically download them and convert them into mp3 files. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4658 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 4 of 4 26 August 2013 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
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I extensively use Hukumusume, the website that erenko linked in the above post, and I fully recommend it to Japanese learners who are low intermediate or higher. There is a TON of material there, including folk tales. There is enough material for you to keep busy every day of the year, and they literally have everything organized by days for an entire year!
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