Japanese Graded Readers – Page 11 – Japanese Tadoku Books by Students

November 25, 2017

着物

私わこの本が大すきです。この本わとてもおもしろくて、えがたくさんあります。日本の着物のれきしはながいです。日本の着物はほんとにきれいですねえ。着物はいろいろあります。私ははおりが好きです。かっこいいですから。

I love this book! This book is very interesting and contains many pictures. Traditional Japanese clothing has a long history. It is really beautiful. There are different kinds of traditional clothing, among which I like haori the best because it looks cool.

I would recommend this book to every Japanese student. This book is fun to read for there are many interesting and nice illustrations. Even though it might be challenging to students who just start to learn Japanese or students who do not know many kanji, this book is worth reading. Students can get to know Japanese culture.

November 20, 2017

バス

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この本はかなしくて、おもしろくて、たのしいです。二十歳、鈴木正雄さんはバスのうんてんしゃです。おばあさんに会いました。でも、鈴木さんのおばあさんは十年前死んでいました。

This book is about Suzuki Masao who is 20 years old and drives a bus. Not expecting much from this, I was actually really surprised by the trip this book took me on. A fair amount of strange things happened, and I was really happy that I understood what was going on. I would recommend this to first year students.

November 20, 2017

木村の毎日「いただきます」

この本はちょっとこの本はちょっと難しいですが、たくさんたんごをしっています。マリアさんはゆみのうちにばんごはんを食べに行きます。マリアさんはゆみさんをてつだいます。ゆみさんの家族とマリアさんとばんごはんを食べて、ねます。本はとてもすてきで、面白いです。

I would reccoment this book to any 1st year Japanese student looking for a slight challenge. I understood most of the things in the book but I got confused with the sentence structures in the book. But I was still able to finish it, the read was pretty enjoyable, and I understood the book in general. Anyone who understands meal vocabulary well should read this book.

November 20, 2017

木村の毎日「ただいま」

このほんやさしいです。よかったです。ぜんぶ。ぜんぶわかりました。娘と息子とお父さんわ帰ります。今日はお母さんのたんじょうびですから。ゆみとちろうはいい子どもですがお父さんは大きいセーターを買います。面白いです。

I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a less challenging intro into the world of Japanese books. Most of the vocab I understood, but some kanji I didn’t know, but this was ok. The topic of coming home is clear from the illustrations and the contextual clues; This made it an easy read for me.

November 20, 2017

西町交番の良さん「助けて！」

この本はやみやすいです。あまりかいわがありませんで、たくさんえがあります。えはとてもかわいいです。りょうさんはいいおまわりさんです。

I recommend this book for Japanese 1 students. It’s a very simple and cute book about a policeman helping people around his town. There are a few vocabulary and phrases that we haven’t learned yet, but it’s still very easy to understand. There also aren’t a lot of Kanji so it’s a quick and easy read.

November 20, 2017

西町交番の良さん「にわにわに？」

この本は、とても楽しです！かんじがたくさんあります。でも、むずかしくないです。良さんは、優しくて、かわいい人ですね。

I recommend this book to Japanese first year students. It is very easy to read with simple grammar, and we’ve learnt most of the kanji in class. There are some kanji that we don’t know yet, but illustrations will help you understand. The story is about a policeman catching crocodile in a woman’s backyard. It is a very fun story, and the illustrations are also extremely cute. It’s worth reading!

November 20, 2017

風と太陽

このストーリーはイソップ寓話のひとつ。とても良いです。太陽さんは優しいですが、かぜさんは親切じゃないです。でも、トーリーは簡単くで、すぐ面白いです。

I will definitely recommend this book, which is a well-known folktale, to the beginning learners of Japanese. It is quite helpful to review what we have learned since it covers a lot of phrases and new words we learned in the Genki textbook. The whole story is easy to read and readers can always figure out the meaning by simply looking at the illustration on each page. It also helps to review the grammar of the formation of adjective and verb conjugation.

November 19, 2017

これは何の数字？

この本はおもしろいです！むずがむずかしくないです。たくさんかんじがあります。でも、やさしいです。This book is about numbers, like population and area of Japan. It’s easy to read. Although there’re lots of Kanji, it’s easy to guess their meaning from the context or the pictures.

I’ll recommend this book to JPN110 classmates. Because many of the Kanji were learned in class, it’s good to review in this book. The grammar is really easy. All of them were covered in class. And the book itself is interesting. It not only introduces the population and geography of Japan, but also some cultures, like “Japanese women spend about 3 hours in doing housework per day, while Japanese men only spend 18 minutes.”

November 19, 2017

桜

この本がすきです！おもしろくて、きれいで、ちょっとやさしいです。かんじがたくさんありますが、むずかしくないです。

I would certainly recommend 桜 to other first-semester Japanese students. The story is not difficult to read, but it is still challenging enough because of its unfamiliar kanji and vocabulary. Context and illustrations help determine the meaning and gist of these, though, so a student should not have much of a problem understanding the story. It is also a rather interesting, worthwhile read; it was fun to learn more about sakura, how its seasons vary along the Japanese archipelago, and how people celebrate it.

November 19, 2017

木村家の毎日「お正月」

この本はとても面白くて、難しじゃないです。お正月、木村家の毎日は忙しいです。いろいろなお祝いです。

I recommend this book to JPN110 students. It talks about how Japanese families celebrate New Year. It’s very interesting to learn these traditions so that next time when you are in Japan during January, you can join the celebrations! The book includes some kanjis we’ve already learned, it’s a good way to review those kanjis in a story setting.