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Where to get Easy Japanese Read Material?

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Cris987
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 Message 1 of 9
31 January 2008 at 7:24pm | IP Logged 
I'm trying to find some easy reading material for my japanese self-studying.

I'm in Waterloo, Canada so Japanese stuff aren't easy to come by. Are there any places online that has kids stories like momotarou?
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sheetz
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31 January 2008 at 7:37pm | IP Logged 
http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/stories/

Edited by sheetz on 31 January 2008 at 7:38pm

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atamagaii
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01 February 2008 at 4:27am | IP Logged 
Hiragana Times

Easy, 195 stories, Japanese and English. Here.

Japanese stuff.

Mangajin.
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atamagaii
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01 February 2008 at 4:48am | IP Logged 
新美 南吉 Niimi Nankiti wrote very simple and beautiful stories.
info
His stories in Japanese: here.
There are plenty of audio podcasts with his stories, too. Easy to find.

Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince audio + text: here.
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atamagaii
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01 February 2008 at 4:58am | IP Logged 
夢十夜 yumezyuuya by 夏目漱石 Natume Souseki is pretty easy, too. I posted a link to a parallel text in Listening-Reading thread. Plenty of easy to find audio, too.

And I've just remembered. There are some easy stories at JapanesePod101, good for natural listening and shadowing.


atamagaii wrote:
Listening-Reading in a teeny weeny nutshell:
LOVE + Listening-Reading (INCUBATION period and then natural listening) + pronunciation = speaking + writing.

Use LONG novels right from the start. If the languages are different the first three hours should be translated word for word. If they are similar, it is not necessary.
There's nothing miraculous about it.




Edited by atamagaii on 01 February 2008 at 5:07am

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Cris987
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01 February 2008 at 9:20am | IP Logged 
Thank you very much! I also looked around for japanese manga and found what I wanted. Hopefully these will help me learn to read in Japanese and such.
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morprussell
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01 February 2008 at 10:46am | IP Logged 
The Logos Children's Library has some Japanese stories with audio.

You can also try the Children's Library.

Edited by morprussell on 01 February 2008 at 10:48am

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