Japanese Tadoku Books by Students
Smith College Tadoku Project
この本わとても面白いです。女の子はたくさんおもちゃ持っていますが、寂しいです。言葉を言いません。ある日、男の子は会いました。男の子は女の子に小さい花をあげました。女の子はしあわせです。
I recommend this book to first year Japanese students. I like the drawings in this book and the story is touching. We have learned most of the vocabularies in the book and it’s a good practice for me to read this book.
この本はとても面白いです。たくさん笑い話があります。
日本語の一年生の皆さんこの本を見ましょう！
難しくない、つまらなくない、とてもいい本です。
このほんのなまえはチーズ スイートホーム。このほんで、猫がいます。猫のなまえはチーです。小さくて、とてもとても可愛いです！私は、チーが大すき。このほんは、やさしくなくて、とても難しかったですが、おもしろかったです。このほんで、むずかしいたんごがたくさんあります。かんじもたくさんあります。ようへいやまだはチーのともだちです。ようへいくんはやさしです。ようへい君のお父さんとお母さんもやさしな人です。
This book is about a kitty who was taking a walk with her mother and siblings, and got lost. Youhei Yamada found this kitty and wanted to keep her, however he and his family lives in an apartment that doesn’t allow people to have pets. They kept the kitty secretly and the book described their life together. This book is really hard, and I could only actually understand a small part, the rest I had to guess through looking at the pictures. I recommend this book to everyone, because it’s really cute and it’s a joy to read. 🙂 However, it might be very hard for first year students to completely understand everything.
このほんは、ちょっとこわいですが、面白いです。ピクチャーはとてもきれいです。でむ、むずかしいです。かんじがたくさんありますから。
This is a story about a young girl getting in a taxi at late night. However, it turned out that she died in a car accident and it was actually her soul. The story gets a little bit scary when I read that it was the soul, and also a little bit sad in the end when her mother was talking to the taxi driver. The pictures also help a lot. The watercolor drawings are really beautiful, and they really add to the mood of this book. The ending confused me a little bit when I first read it but it started to make sense when I reread it. The book is hard for first-year Japanese students because of the vocabs and kanji, but it’s good to give it a try. I would recommend it to students who know lots of kanji.
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この本はとてもすまらないです。The book describes numbers of things, such as average height, how many people live in Japan, how big Japan is, etc. There is no “story” rather it is like an informational pamphlet.
I would not recommend this book to read for fun. However, If you want to learn some Japanese statistics it would be a good choice. Also if you wanted to read it out loud to practice counting.
この本はとてもおもしろいですよ。たくさんきれいで、おいしいすしを見ます。
The book introduces various kinds of sushi in different areas of Japan, history of sushi making, and also talks a little about how to make sushi. Pictures are cute and helpful. As a foodie I really enjoy the book!
この本はジョンさんの旅行。飛行機で女の人をはなしました。ジョンさんと女の人は同じほんを読みました。そして、飛行機を降りました。そして、飛行機を降りました。それから、ジョンさんは女の人にあって、歌舞伎を見ました。
This book was interesting but also pretty boring. I thought it would get more interesting as a read on, but that didn’t happen. Jon and the woman he met on the plane accidentally switched books and then they met up to exchange books and see a kabuki dance but Jon messed up and made them drink coffee together so they missed their show (or at least that’s what I understood). The last part of the book was a little confusing to me but all in all it didn’t take to long for me to read it and i didn’t necessarily hate it but I didn’t like it so I’ll say I wouldn’t recommendd it unless you really need to read a graded reader level 1 book
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この本はとてもおもしろいですが、ちょっとむずかしくて、ちょっとながいです。この本はれきしのまねきねこ。それはしろいねこ。にほんがたくさんいます！本のねこのなまえはたまです。たまはとてもかわいくて、ちさいでした。たまとおぼうさんはとのさまをてつだいました。しんせつですね！おてらだ、かみなりだ、きがあります。この本を読んでください！
I think this book was really cute. It wasn’t too difficult, but was still slightly challenging. There was some vocab we haven’t learned, but it wasn’t hard to gather the meaning from context or it wasn ‘t essential to understanding the story. It was really interesting to learn the story behind the welcome cats you see everywhere in Japanese culture! I would definitely recommend this book to any cat lover/history buff.
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この本はたのしくないですが、ちょっとおもしろいです。本は、日本は小さくて、日本人はせがひくいだと言っていました。この本にたくさんばんごうがあります。れんしゅうをして！
I would not recommend this book on the basis of the story, as it was more factual than plot-based and therefore a rather dry read. However, because this book contains so many numbers to discuss the statistics of Japan, including the country’s size and the average height of the Japanese population, I would recommend that students use this book to practice reading numbers. I found that it was a challenging but helpful exercise to read the numbers out loud. Additionally, the vocabulary was not difficult; unfamiliar words could be figured out with context of surrounding words or of illustrations. Overall, the book was very educational and might prove helpful to students who struggle with numbers in Japanese.
女の子はとてもきれい本です。文法はやさしいですが、ストーリーはちょっと…
It’s not that it wasn’t interesting or anything. It’s just that beyond the pictures, I didn’t enjoy the book as much as I enjoyed the other books I read. That said, the book is really really beautifully drawn and the sentences are really easy to follow. So I still recommend it to first year japanese students. It’s an easy read and you’ll appreciate the art!