Japanese Reader Collection Volume 7: The Little Match Girl: The Easy Way to Read Japanese Folklore, Tales, and Stories

Boutwell, Yumi

ISBN 10: 1544011873 / ISBN 13: 9781544011875

Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Codice articolo GOR014826900

Riassunto:

Andersen's classic, in Japanese — every sentence broken down for upper-beginner readers.

A barefoot girl tries to sell matches on the last night of the year. No one buys. She strikes the matches one by one for warmth, and each small flame opens onto a vision — a warm stove, a roast goose, a glowing Christmas tree, her grandmother. This volume presents Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" as a Japanese retelling: a Danish story carried into the gentle pacing of Japanese folktale prose, with line-by-line vocabulary, grammar notes, native-speaker audio, and the classic English text alongside for self-checking.

New in the 2026 edition:

• Bonus unlock code inside the book — redeem at Makotoplus.com to study every sentence from this book interactively, on the web or in the mobile app (search the App or Play store for "Makoto Japanese Explorer")
• New illustrations and audio QR codes throughout — scan from the page, no link-typing
• Before-You-Read section flagging the grammar and vocabulary patterns to watch for: katakana loanwords, ～ながら, まるで～ように, and the layered cold-vocabulary the story uses to build to its ending
• Full Exercises section: Comprehension Questions, Particle Fill-in, Grammar Pattern Hunt, Translation Comparison, and Answer Key
• Resized furigana — ruby now sits closer to the base text, the way good Japanese typography should
• Running headers, page numbers, and section ornaments throughout

What's inside:

• One story, presented three ways: with line-by-line vocabulary, in plain Japanese (no furigana, for real reading practice), and in the classic English translation
• Word-by-word breakdowns with furigana over every kanji
• Grammar spotlights, cultural notes, and reading tips throughout
• A "Kanji in Focus" appendix covering the key kanji from the story
• Free MP3 audio downloads — natural speed and slowed down — recorded by a native speaker
• Free Anki deck for pre-study
• Bonus unlock code for Makoto+ Sentence Explorer
• No sign-up required to access the audio

About the story:

Hans Christian Andersen first published "The Little Match Girl" in Danish in 1845. In Japan, it has had a long second life — generations of schoolchildren have read it in textbooks, and its imagery is part of the country's literary fluency in the same way it is in Europe. Reading it in Japanese is a quiet way to compare two storytelling rhythms: the spare directness of Andersen's original meeting the soft cadence of Japanese folktale prose.

Who this is for: Upper-beginner to lower-intermediate learners. You'll need solid kana and a working sense of basic grammar. (New to hiragana? Take our free two-week crash course at TheJapanesePage.com/hiragana.)

Questions or requests for future readers? The authors' personal email addresses are inside the book.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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Clay Boutwell and his wife Yumi are the authors of several top ten books on learning Japanese, including: Hiragana, the Basics of Japanese, and Hikoichi, the first in their Japanese Reader Collection series. They currently have over twenty titles and are slowly adding more readers and study guides as ebooks and paperbacks. And...EVERY purchase comes with FREE MP3s!

His fiction includes thrillers (Tanaka and the Yakuza's Daughter), mysteries (Two Tocks before Midnight), and, yes, superheroes! (The Temporal)

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Japanese Reader Collection Volume 7: The ...
Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fine