Japanese/English Primary School Reader Series Level 4: A Dangerous Meeting – Bilingual Version

Description

With online audio.

This story very clearly demonstrates the importance of knowing who a friend is or isn’t on the internet. Following a naive raccoon, who befriends a ‘fox’ she has never met in person, children will learn that this can lead to very dangerous real life situations. Readers will additionally start to learn common Japanese phrases and also see how language use when texting between friends becomes informal.

With free access to a bilingual audio book and hiragana chart bookmark, this picture book has been written for primary aged beginners of Japanese, (ideally Year 3 and 4 Strand of the Australian Curriculum but can also be used for Year 5 and 6).

Each colourful page is firstly presented in hiragana only. Once the page is turned, children can then see the same page with both the English meaning and also each hiragana character decoded in romaji above, so that readers are able to check on the accuracy of their hiragana reading as they go.