Learn Japanese with Stories Volume 1: Hikoichi [Paperback]

Amazing Book for Beginners

If you are a beginner who has mastered hiragana and wanted supplementary materials to improve reading comprehension, you can get ahead by reading these series of books. There are four fun folklore stories that give you a good glimpse of the Japanese culture. The authors chunk the texts into bite-sized pieces and provide clear explanations on some challenging words and expressions in the text at the bottom of the page. Furigana is written on top of the kanji which makes reading fluid. Some of the words in the text are repetitive which reinforces learning and add to your repository of vocab. Subsequently, the chunked texts are put together as a whole and you read the whole text on its own. I like this progressive method of reading as it gives me time to digest the new words, kanji and expressions. The free audio included is definitely a bonus! Listening to it while reading makes me remember the words better. Many thanks for this wonderful resource!