Reading Japanese with a Smile: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners. This item is unavailable.Reading Japanese with a Smile: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners

184 pages. Learning to read Japanese is a little like running a marathon: it is a long, drawn out process, and it can get a little boring along the way. What we learner s of Japanese need is a little fun now and then, something that brings a smile t o our faces. As luck would have it, this book does just that. This magic trick i s accomplished by the book's nine curious stories. Taken from the weekly magazin e Shukan Asahi, these stories, while true to life, verge on the hard to believ e, and that's what evokes the magic element of fun.But that's not all. Ea ch story is accompanied by a translation, faithfully done and easy to follow. Th en, sentence by sentence, follows a short gloss of each word and phrase, a rever se derivation of each declined verb and adjective, detailed notes on vocabulary and grammar, and information and commentary on the cultural background. All of t hese aids can be accessed easily when needed.Reading Japanese with a Smi le: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners repr esents the best of two worlds -- stories that are both fully annotated and enjoy able to read.Eight of the nine stories in this book were first published under the title Strange but True in 1997.…