Easy Japanese Stories APK
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Version 2 (#29)
Updated 2018-11-18
APK Size 3.6 MB
Requires Android Android 4.0+ (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Offered by Russell Sensei
Category Free Education App
App id appinventor.ai_easyjapanesestories.Easy_Japanese_Stories_new
Developer's notes Learn real Japanese through a growing collection of interesting stories.
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Download the latest Easy Japanese Stories application, version 2, compatible with Windows 10/11 (using emulators such as Bluestacks), Android devices. This free Education app is developed by Russell Sensei and is easy to download and install.
Previous versions, including 2, are also available. If you need help or have any problems, please let us know.
Description
Put down the boring and ineffective grammar textbooks!
Learn Japanese through a collection of short stories specifically designed to be interesting, yet understandable. The stories in this app use start out with limited vocab, so even beginners can start to enjoy the stories quickly. Level 1 and Level 2 stories at the moment only have about 30 unique words per story! These stories include hiragana, katakana, and kanji, just like real Japanese sources would. However, furigana(small hiragana above other characters) is provided above all the kanji and katakana characters. This means you will gradually learn katakana and kanji just by seeing them repeatedly, but you will never be stuck because you don't know a certain character.
Keep reading, or check out the website:
https://sites.google.com/outlook.com/easyjapanesestories-tprs/about
Methology:
This was started as an effort to provide Japanese materials to those teaching and/or studying using TPRS/CI.
TPRS(Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling), and CI (Comprehensible Input) are by far the most effective second language teaching method I've found. While there is a lot of information online that you can look up(and I encourage you to do this), I will attempt to boil it down to the key idea. To progress in a language, students only need a few things
Lots of input (hearing or reading the languages)
To understand all the input they are being given.
Understanding is made easier by limiting the amount of vocab used, NOT by sheltering them from grammar
For the input to be interesting enough to keep them motivated to continue
While I only recently discovered this method, I immediately noticed the difference in my Japanese classes. Students that had been really struggling suddenly lit up, overjoyed that they were actually understanding. My more advanced students are no longer bored, because the stories keep them interested and learning, even if they are a little easy.
About the stories:
The stories on this site are created for and/or with my students. Included is a vocab list including all the words in the story. For all of my stories, I include all the kanji that would regularly be used in Japanese. I find kanji can really help the students recognize words through all the different conjugations. As kanji generally takes time to master, I include furigana above all the kanji and katakana that appears in my stories. The stories are checked by myself and my wonderful Japanese wife before being uploaded here. I hope that soon we will get some variety by having other teachers volunteer to share some of their successful stories.
App permissions
Easy Japanese Stories 2 APK requires following permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Ratings and Reviews
Rating: 3.7/5 based on 1+ reviews
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5 ★ The stories are hilarious and honestly great reading practice, then at the end there's even a short glossary and questions to test your understanding. I love it, the end of some level one stories like Hillary Clinton's Tortillas and Hermione and Voldemort cut off but you can see the rest on the site. You also have to buy the translations, but those are cheap.
5 ★ Although I am a beginner student of the Japanese language, I was able to read all the way through one of your short stories and was thrilled to find I could not only recognize some of the words, but could follow the story. The repetitiveness allowed for a better mastery of vocab and katakana/kanji recognition than I have had through flash card studies. Thank you for this delightful app and the stories inside.
4 ★ Would give five stars if not for the sole problem that some of the text is cut off. Bythe near end of the stories, they are suddenly cut off. I want to finish them. Some text in the vocabulary list is also cut off :(
5 ★ This app has a lot of very interesting stories! I like it a lot. Very easy to understand if you know very very basic Japanese Thanks Russell Sensei :) Enjoy a cup of coffee. -A random dude from Germany
5 ★ Awesome for beginners who want to start reading. Even with my very limited knowledge of words I enjoyed reading the stories. Thanks a lot!
5 ★ This app is really perfect , i liked it and enjoyed it, so easy to read and learn, arigatou gozaimasu rasseru sensei , hontouni tanoshikatta
5 ★ so far so good. I just start learning japanese and this was the first time I underatand something I read in japanese. hope this method works!!
5 ★ This app is wonderful for Japanese learners! Many interesting and funny stories! I laughed a lot:) Easy to use and my favorite way to study Japanese:))
1 ★ The stories aren't showing up, the page keep loading...
4 ★ Sad, the app doesn't work at all. But I still give 4 stars because of the content in website. Fun and entertaining to read.
5 ★ This app is genius. The ridiculousness of the stories helps the cogs in my brain turn cuz it gives me the "am I reading this right?" feel.
5 ★ thank you very much I was so happy when I could read and understand one of your stories I'm a beginner and this motivates me to continue learning also the stories are cute
1 ★ There is a blank screen whenever i click on any level to read 😞😞. A Huge letdown
5 ★ The app i was really looking for.. a beginner friendly app that will enhance our vocabulary and comprehension of japanese sentences
3 ★ Bottom half of chars missing, can't use at all.
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