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Peter A.

A short book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 17 October 2010

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I don't think this book is bad for its price. The two stories are rather short, but that was to be expected.
The kanji do tend to be a bit small, but I didn't have trouble reading the words I knew. (Granted, I've got two years of college Japanese under my belt and I'm studying Chinese on my own now, so I've got some experience with Chinese characters - which makes it easier to read them when they're small.) For the first story, the furigana (small letters written above kanji to show pronunciation) were as easy to read as the rest of the story. However, they were less clear in the second story (or parts of it) and might be difficult for somebody that's new to the syllabaries to read. The vocabulary lists gave romaji (these, Latin letters), too, though. So that should clear up any problems.
Now, while I say the kanji are small, keep in mind that I mainly use my iPod Touch for Kindle books (although I think they look a little small in the screenshots that have been put up of a Kindle, too, but that might just be the screenshots - I don't have an actual Kindle). I loaded it on my laptop just to see how it looks, and the kanji are perfectly legible there. So I think this is really more about the device you have than the book itself. Also, while I can't find a way on the Kindle for PC, I can enlarge pictures (which is what the Japanese text is as I write this) on my Kindle for the iPod Touch. And, while the kanji wasn't always the clearest, they, and the furigana, always became legible if it wasn't earlier.
My main complaints about the book are overuse of furigana and how the book was arranged, but these don't really affect the book itself much. Since furigana is provided in the section that lists the vocab under the sentences, I think it should have been left out of the Japanese only section: that way you can practice remembering how to read the kanji; plus, furigana can simply be distracting if you already know the kanji.

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Johanna Kubacek

Großartig / Great

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 25 May 2015

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DEU:
Nur zum weiterempfehlen, super Verarbeitung. Audiodateien sind einfach nur genial und hilfreich (zwei Geschwindigkeiten [normal/langsam]).
Viel Aufregung zum beigelegten e-book (was wahrscheinlich stimmt) aber ich habe in erster instanz ein Buch gekauft, e-book ist für mich nur ein nettes Extra.
Mein Wunsch wäre noch, dass die Kanji einzeln angeführt und übersetzt werden, damit man ein besseres Sprachgefühl für japanisch entwickeln kann.
Freue mich irrsinig über den Kauf!

ENG:
I am recomending this book to everyone. Audiofiles are great and helpfull (two speedsettings [normal/slowed down]).
Some people are dissapointed of the e-book (which might be true) but I was looking for a book. The e-book is for me just a nice giveaway.
I would wish that the Kanji were explained by them self and afterwards in contaxt, to get a feeling how the japanese language works.
I am very happy about this purchase!

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samiX4

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 January 2015

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The content is really useful and the format is great, but there are only 4 short stories! Having said that you can read through it multiple times as I did and the vocabulary and concept learnt are very useful as a stepping stone to more complex texts.

It's not entirely worth the price but if I had the money I would buy all of the books in this series as I found it very useful.

In terms of difficulty I would say that you need to be able to understand most particles and tenses, and be able to read sentences with two clauses to get the full understanding.

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Mark

Good but not easy

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on 7 November 2020

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Very good however be careful because it’s not for real beginners. Also the slow audio is not so slow. But very good product!

royoung

Good Book - Complex language

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 15 March 2019

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This is a good intermediate level book however Japanese is a very complex language. I recommend that you start with an easier book on Hiragana first. Japanese has three alphabets, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. You need to know some Hiragana before you start this book. Hiragana is used to "spell" out Japanese words, Katakana is used to spell foreign words, and Kanji are antique Chinese characters where one character represents a whole word. Learning Japanese is going to require time and work.

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Kazuha

sehr gutes Preis-Leistungs

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on 4 October 2013

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Zum Japanischlernen eignet sich die "Japanese Reader collection" auf alle Fälle! Besonders finde ich gut, dass nicht nur Hiragana verwendet wird, sondern auch Kanji. So lernt man diese gleich mit und da unterhalb des japanischen Textes die Wörter auf Englisch übersetzt werden (und wie man die Kanji ausspricht) lernt man schnell die Vokabeln.
Ziemlich klasse finde ich auch, dass neben dem kindle-buch auch eine PDF-Datei ist, so dass man sich die Vokabeln ausdrucken kann (und nochmal alle Geschichten) und "auf Papier" lernen kann. Leider sind diese aber alphabetisch geordnet und nicht nach "Geschichten"! Auch die Audiodateien, in denen eine Muttersprachlerin die Geschichten liest, sind auf alle Fälle hilfreich um die "gesprochene Sprache" zu lernen.

Insgesamt ein echt gutes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis!

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jean-michel

Nice little book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 16 July 2012

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This and its siblings (the inch-high samourai and the little match girl) are nice little books of which one would like to find more on kindle store. It is the right level for a student who has mastered the kana and the basic constructions.
It is true that the writing is sometimes pale, making the reading less easy. There seem to be a hardware problem here. If this is any solace, it is worse with other Japanese books for Kindle (see samples from Akutagawa or Natsume Soseki) There is, however, a simple trick to enlarge the characters: change the orientation and make the long side of the device horizontal. The little books become quite readable then.
It is also true that short reminders of some relevant grammar points would be welcome.

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Benjamin

I do like the layout of taking a sentence and giving you ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 22 June 2015

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I got the kindle edition of this book which does not show the furigana for the kanji, which is a bit odd. However, I do like the layout of taking a sentence and giving you the information needed to read and understand it. If the kindle book had the kana above the kanji to help you read them I would gladly give it 5 stars. Overall, a good resource for anyone studying Japanese.

Fran Hutchinson

Good stories

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 30 July 2011

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Perhaps it's because I'm just at the right level of Japanese study, but I liked these stories. I could practice my reading (because there were only a few kanji) and the stories themselves were rewarding. They were short enough not to be overwhelming. I knew when I got the book that I couldn't alter the font, but I read it just fine on my kindle. I can imagine it would be difficult on a smaller screen though. I am looking for more Hikoichi stories after reading these.

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Lilian

Principiante

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on 29 September 2017

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Una recopilación de las historias de Hikoichi. Es muy entretenido, y aprendes mientras lees. El problema que le veo es que las traducciones van a cachos y son literales (eso está bien para aprender cual es el significado original de aquella partícula o palabra en particular), lo que a veces hace que resulte un poco difícil seguir el hilo de la historia, teniendo que adivinar más o menos lo que ocurre.

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