日本語１年生 – Japanese Tadoku Books by Students

February 26, 2019

タクシー

一人女の子はタクシーで乗ります。あの子はもう死ねていました。

A girl takes a ride in a taxi and later turns out to be a ghost. She tricks the taxi driver into dropping her off at her house and then runs inside without paying. the driver waits outside for her to come back and pay him but she never does. He eventually knocks on the door only to find out that the girl had died in a bicycle accident.

This book is accessible to a Japanese 111 student if not a Japanese 110 student. It takes a bit of intuition to piece together some of the story but it was certainly original.

December 5, 2018

寿司

この本はとても面白いです。ストーリーがありませんが、インフォがたくさんありますから。私は寿司を作って食べるのが大好きです。だから、この本を読んで寿司の歴史と作り方をたくさん勉強しました。いろいろな魚の名前もたくさんあります。挿絵は可愛いです。いろいろな寿司の挿絵と写真があります。

I recommend this book. It talks a lot about the sushi culture. I learned all kinds of sushi and the correct way to eat and make sushi. I learned what 回転寿司 is. 新しい漢字があります。ちょっと難しですが、わかりました。挿絵は本当に助けましたから。

November 19, 2018

さびしいさんのさびしい一日

This book was average. I understood 90% of it, so I recommend it as a level zero book. The story was funny in parts. It had some Genki character fanfiction as part of the plot. There were a few vocabulary words that I didn’t know but I was not able to figure them out from the context or the drawings.

This book was fine but if you picked another random student book it would probably be just as good. It was not challenging so this is good book if you do not want to be too intimidated by new vocab and kanji. It takes 5-10 minutes to read.

December 5, 2017

桜

この本は桜の花を話しました。あついの時、桜がいますが、さむいの時、桜がいません。人は桜の下でたくさんをしました。私わ桜がとてもきれいと思います。でも今はでも今は冬です。私はさむいの月が嫌いですよ。

I liked learning about the times when sakura flowers bloom, and what kind of things people do in Japan when they bloom. Although I understood most everything in the book my knowledge of months is limited so it was more challenging to get through those parts of the book. But all in all the book was short and a little boring so I wouldn’t recommend it to a friend but I wouldn’t completely not mention it either. Books like this are good for 1st years who are very good at kanji.

December 3, 2017

ジョンさんの夏休み

私は夏休みが大好きです。この本にジョンさんの夏休み話ていました。森さんの家にホームステイをしに行きました。森さんの家族と食べて、花火を見ました。そして、ジョンさんは短冊にお願いをかきました。それから、ジョンさんは大きい犬のねいぐるみをかいって、森のおとうとに送りました。でもパッケジは森のおとうとにきませんでした。ざんねんですね。

When I read this book, we had already gone through Lesson 8 so i understood everything in this book; This was assuring and very satisfying. I also learned that one response to 「どうぞよろしくおねがいします」is 「こちらこそどうぞよろしく」. The book was a bit long but interesting and it had familiar topics in it, so, all in all, I would recommend it to Japanese students at the end of their 1st year.

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.