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Intermediate Japanese Short Stories: 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
Are you on your way towards learning Japanese and need a new challenge?
We’re constantly trying to improve and master new skills, and the Japanese language is no exception. A skill that can help open important doors in business and tourism, knowing Japanese will lead you towards a huge number of opportunities in life that will be worth every second dedicated to your studies.
Because of this, we have created the next level of Japanese stories for the students who have already surpassed the beginner Intermediate Japanese Short Stories!
In this book we have compiled 10 challenging, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to boost your grasp of the wonderful Japanese tongue.
How Intermediate Japanese Short Stories
Each chapter possesses a funny, interesting and/or thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn about the Japanese culture.Having trouble understanding Japanese characters? No problem – despite being Intermediate Japanese, we have still included a romanization to help guide you through your learning process, just like in the beginner stories!The summaries follow the a synopsis in Japanese and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. Use them if you’re having trouble.At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Don’t get lost trying to understand or pronounce it all, either, as all of the vocabulary words are Romanized for your ease of learning!Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Japanese, allowing you the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any — we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!We want you to feel comfortable while mastering the Japanese tongue; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your social circles!
So look no further! Pick up your copy of Intermediate Japanese Short Stories and level up your Japanese language learning right now!
We’re constantly trying to improve and master new skills, and the Japanese language is no exception. A skill that can help open important doors in business and tourism, knowing Japanese will lead you towards a huge number of opportunities in life that will be worth every second dedicated to your studies.
Because of this, we have created the next level of Japanese stories for the students who have already surpassed the beginner Intermediate Japanese Short Stories!
In this book we have compiled 10 challenging, compelling and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to boost your grasp of the wonderful Japanese tongue.
How Intermediate Japanese Short Stories
Each chapter possesses a funny, interesting and/or thought-provoking story based on real-life situations, allowing you to learn about the Japanese culture.Having trouble understanding Japanese characters? No problem – despite being Intermediate Japanese, we have still included a romanization to help guide you through your learning process, just like in the beginner stories!The summaries follow the a synopsis in Japanese and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about. Use them if you’re having trouble.At the end of those summaries, you’ll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson, as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance! Don’t get lost trying to understand or pronounce it all, either, as all of the vocabulary words are Romanized for your ease of learning!Finally, you’ll be provided with a set of tricky questions in Japanese, allowing you the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don’t worry if you don’t know the answer to any — we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!We want you to feel comfortable while mastering the Japanese tongue; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your social circles!
So look no further! Pick up your copy of Intermediate Japanese Short Stories and level up your Japanese language learning right now!
- GenresJapanese Literature
127 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 13, 2021
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December 27, 2022
If I could do half ratings, I’d give this book 3.5 stars.
This book is a set of 10 short stories where each story is encompassed in a single chapter. When I say short, I mean short as some of them are really only a few pages, and others are not really stories at all.
I think that the thing about Japanese graded readers is that there is a wide scale for what can be considered Intermediate. I read this with about N3 knowledge and found it far easier than I was expecting, powering through it in 2 days. The grammar and vocabulary felt like it was at the very beginning of intermediate, and that’s how I would pitch it to anyone wanting to read this book.
That said, the book was good practice and certainly helped to cement the words and grammar that I already knew just that little bit more. I also got to learn some new words in context, which is extremely valuable to anyone learning another language.
Similar to other graded readers, each chapter had select words that were in bold which were included in a glossary/dictionary a few pages later. Along with that, there was also a short summary (in Japanese then directly translated to English), as well as a set of questions about the contents of the chapter and answers.
If you’re at the upper end of intermediate and have experience reading other books in Japanese already then you might want to give this a miss. If, however, you’re looking to break into reading stories in Japanese and you’re not sure where to start, you should definitely give this a go.
This book is a set of 10 short stories where each story is encompassed in a single chapter. When I say short, I mean short as some of them are really only a few pages, and others are not really stories at all.
I think that the thing about Japanese graded readers is that there is a wide scale for what can be considered Intermediate. I read this with about N3 knowledge and found it far easier than I was expecting, powering through it in 2 days. The grammar and vocabulary felt like it was at the very beginning of intermediate, and that’s how I would pitch it to anyone wanting to read this book.
That said, the book was good practice and certainly helped to cement the words and grammar that I already knew just that little bit more. I also got to learn some new words in context, which is extremely valuable to anyone learning another language.
Similar to other graded readers, each chapter had select words that were in bold which were included in a glossary/dictionary a few pages later. Along with that, there was also a short summary (in Japanese then directly translated to English), as well as a set of questions about the contents of the chapter and answers.
If you’re at the upper end of intermediate and have experience reading other books in Japanese already then you might want to give this a miss. If, however, you’re looking to break into reading stories in Japanese and you’re not sure where to start, you should definitely give this a go.
August 1, 2021
Yey, that's a whole book in Japanese I've read. And it is superb!
I esspecialy liked a story called 肝試し. Did not expect this level of creepyness from a short story collection.
I esspecialy liked a story called 肝試し. Did not expect this level of creepyness from a short story collection.
April 26, 2024
It was quite easy for my N4 level, so it's more beginning intermediate than really intermediate.
February 3, 2022
Don‘t know if I‘d call this an intermediate level book, I think it was pretty easy to read and I thought it‘d be a bit more challenging, but I enjoyed it a lot for what it was. To be honest, it wasn’t much more difficult than the beginners book. Anyway, quick, easy to grasp stories before going to bed to keep my Japanese up. They were really fun and feel very natural. Hope they‘ll release an ‚advanced‘ version, I‘d be happy to read that as well.
March 7, 2022
Overall I liked the book, the idea and the prepared vocabulary list. Lots of N3 vocab to see in context, with, generally, easy grammar and easy-to-follow short stories. Speaking about stories... well, I wasn't a fan of them at the beginning, but they were well written and, all in all, enjoyable to read.
December 29, 2021
The stories have nice quality, interesting and are easy to understand. Some of them are like bollywood movies. JLPT N4- N3 level students can easily read the book.
August 7, 2022
Very good for japanese language learners.
January 25, 2025
Easy to read.
October 28, 2025
Quite a decent collection of stories. The translations of less common words were welcome. Completely appropriate for the N3 level, though maybe a bit basic at times.
May 29, 2024
Part of my JLPT N3 Japanese reading challenge 2024 - book 2
The chapters were easy to read at my intermediate level and include vocab lists and short quizzes as well.
Recommended for anyone wanting to get into reading beyond the most basic of Japanese.
However, it also made me decide to avoid anymore books intended for learners as it felt like a step backward from the first book of my challenge that was written for native young Japanese people in a more challenging and natural style. I'm going to stick to books in Japanese for Japanese people for the rest of my challenge.
The chapters were easy to read at my intermediate level and include vocab lists and short quizzes as well.
Recommended for anyone wanting to get into reading beyond the most basic of Japanese.
However, it also made me decide to avoid anymore books intended for learners as it felt like a step backward from the first book of my challenge that was written for native young Japanese people in a more challenging and natural style. I'm going to stick to books in Japanese for Japanese people for the rest of my challenge.
June 22, 2021
I love Lingo Mastery! They give people like me the opportunity to read there books, service is very awesome, they are always so kind, but the books are also amazing.
The short stories are very likeable and are based on daily conversations. Everything is explained very wel, grammar etc.
If you really want to lear Japanese a fun way, try it via Lingo Mastery. I like the content of every book they released.
Thank you for the short story version and the clear explanation, it helped me a lot.
The short stories are very likeable and are based on daily conversations. Everything is explained very wel, grammar etc.
If you really want to lear Japanese a fun way, try it via Lingo Mastery. I like the content of every book they released.
Thank you for the short story version and the clear explanation, it helped me a lot.
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