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| Mirkwood Diglot Newbie Japan Joined 4542 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1 of 7 25 June 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello dear everyone, I heard somewhere I can't recall where, that upon writing your very first post in a
board such as this, your fellow forum peers will be specially compelled to offer kind and helpful advice, that being the case here, please be kind to me. I am looking for audiobooks in Japanese. I am aware that this is a rather limited market in Japan and that audiobooks are apparently not so popular in this country. I have been able to find however, some links to a handful of recorded novels, specially here (http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Audiobooks) but several links don't work and the selection is short and of the few ones that do work I wouldn't dare touching many just yet, (吾輩は猫である for example). I have actually purchased some textbook-like material with audio in the past and more recently the よむよむ文庫 Japanese Graded Readers from which I am currently working on Level 4. But that's the end of it. Is there anything else?. I am also currently reading 3rd and 4th grade of the wonderful 十分読める series of stories, biographies and popular science books, but these have no audio whatsoever. In total, the amount of audio I have collected doesn't amount to ~4 hours of listening to new material (which is rather not so new anymore). I appreciate your comments, references and/or advice. Edited by Mirkwood on 25 June 2012 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sammychanforeve Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6074 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: French | Message 2 of 7 27 June 2012 at 1:47am | IP Logged | ||
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A user called Sheetz made a list...
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=6241&PN=1&TPN=1 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mirkwood Diglot Newbie Japan Joined 4542 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 7 30 June 2012 at 8:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I wasn't able to make the link work but I searched a bit and came up with it. Thanks. Edited by Mirkwood on 30 June 2012 at 12:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AaronLangston Newbie United States Joined 4546 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 7 09 July 2012 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree, that available selection is very limited! You may want to try LDS.org (even if
you're not religious) and listen to the General Conference talks in Japanese. Just choose the Japanese language option and then click on the General Conference link (if your Japanese reading isn't too good yet make sure to do it in English first so you can memorize where the links are) and you can listen to hours of talks in Japanese. They are of course of a religious nature, but the topics covered are pretty extensive and therefore become a great learning tool. I also listen/watch Japanese dramas, such as "1 litre of tears". You can pull those episodes up on utube. Good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 5089 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 7 25 July 2012 at 5:51am | IP Logged | ||
Hi Mirkwood! Welcome to HTLAL!
So you want selections of real Japanese to read, that also have audio? Have you looked at 'Read Real Japanese'? There are two volumes, one of short stories (here) and one of essays (here). The title says it all really. They are texts written by well-known writers. Each book comes with an audio CD. And there are lots of notes to help, and a vocabulary. Another book worth looking at is Breaking into Japanese. It has audio that you download. Again, the book is a selection of writings from well-known writers. The selections are short, and there is a facing translation and footnoted vocabulary. All these three books present real Japanese in short, manageable chunks, all with accompany audio to listen to. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| baskerville Trilingual Triglot Newbie Singapore scribeorigins.com Joined 4252 days ago 39 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: German*, Japanese Studies: Hungarian | Message 6 of 7 15 June 2013 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
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How about audiobooks of those that you have listened to in your native language? My
favourite audiobook is Harry Potter because I am a big HP fan. Sadly, the JP version is only until the 2nd book, if I remember correctly, because as you mentioned, the audiobook market is not so big in Japan. I also do what AaronLangston does. I watch my favourite Jdoramas :) I put the episodes in my iPhone and listen to them while at work or while commuting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hanasea Diglot Newbie Korea, South agidark.tistory.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4195 days ago 15 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Korean*, EnglishC1 Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 7 23 June 2013 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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www.febe.jp
www.ongen.net dl.rakuten.co.jp Those are Japan web sites that sells audiobook which is similar with Audible.com But you should buy the textbook from other source. Also, those sites look like for Japanese only. I would like to buy some books from there but not sure how to do it. If you find any way to buy, let me know ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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