Best children japanese language books according to redditors
We found 6 Reddit comments discussing the best children japanese language books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 6 Reddit comments discussing the best children japanese language books. We ranked the 6 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Don't worry about the N# levels, they really don't indicate your skill at all. Many people have studied for those tests specifically and had no skill in Japanese other than those tests, and still managed to pass N5. It doesn't test you for anything other than reading.
For learning hiragana and katakana, you can do that over the weekend and the kanji you can learn in two or three months. Personally I'm doing 50 a day. You should look in to a tool called Anki, and some books. Specifically, Teach Yourself Complete Japanese, Colloquial Japanese and GENKI I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese. Send me a PM and I'll see what I can do for sending you some E-book versions of those books.
For Kanji, check out Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. There's a shared deck for it on Anki. I changed the particular deck available on Anki so the kanji is on the front, and the meaning and the story are on the back. It doesn't teach you the meanings of the kanji, which I believe is a good thing; you should learn the readings of the kanji from the context in certain words. I'm currently learning 50 new kanji a day with Anki + doing my reviews.
I'm assuming you mean this book?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-People-Association-Language-Teaching/dp/477002178X
I've never heard of it, but looking at the description it says its only in English and is aimed at junior high school - high school level students.
I'm not sure of what those ages are in the American school system but I'd imagine they're aimed at about 15/16 year olds.
Honestly you're probably better off buying a different more 'advanced' book, as this is probably going to be a bit under your level, or if it isn't it will be quickly if its relying on Romaji.
(Also its from 1998 so it could be a bit outdated)
how about hakumusume?
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/jap/index.html
It's an online site with easy to read folk tales, many of which have illustrations and audio.
It has one story for every day of the year so about 365. More than enough to sharpen your Japanese.
I've also got a few books that I wrote with some help from japanese friends to check grammar etc, English text side by side with Japanese and a running glossary.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016DWZTEA?*Version*=1&*entries*=0
http://www.amazon.com/kaguya-japanese-reader-Holly-Plyler-ebook/dp/B016LS6KKS/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1449342441&sr=1-3
This book is really good for pronunciation, teaching you how to move your specific mouth-parts:
https://www.amazon.com/Pronounce-Perfectly-Japanese-Charles-Inouye/dp/0812080351
It's old and cassette-only, but hopefully you can find an MP3 online ...
From memory the book has lots of useful diagrams too.
I've done some with the Sing and Learn Japanese cd and book. It's pretty good.
Also Teach Me Everyday Japanese