Japanese/English Primary School Reader Series Level 5: Daruma Otoshi Loses His Stomach – Bilingual Version

Description

With online audio.

Daruma Otoshi-san teaches the reader how to play this traditional Japanese game. With many words of encouragement, the reader makes good progress, until the end when something goes wrong. This story demonstrates using a number of simple conjunction words as well as including many common, useful expressions used when playing games.

With free access to a bilingual audio book and hiragana chart bookmark, this 40 page picture book has been written for primary aged beginner/intermediate level 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.

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The book is generously sized at 20.6cm by 20.6 cm making it easy to hold and images and words clear and easy to see. Printed locally in Australia on quality paper, this book has been made to last in a classroom, library or home with long term use in mind.