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Learn about Japanese culture while improving your language skills! Japanese Folktales for Language Learners introduces 22 traditional tales in parallel Japanese and English versions, presented on facing pages. Whether you're a student of Japanese or just want to enjoy a good read while learning about traditional Japanese culture, you're sure to love this book! The tales increase in length and complexity as the book progresses. Each story has a comprehensive vocabulary list, cultural notes, comprehension exercises and discussion questions to reinforce your understanding. There are overviews of verb and adjective forms, as wall as free online audio recordings of all the stories to develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

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Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies at the State of University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is also the Director of the Japanese Teacher Education Program. She has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including Japanese Stories for Language Learners, Essential Japanese Grammar, and Learning Japanese Kanji. She has also authored or co-authored Contemporary Japanese, Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Japanese Phrases for Dummies, Basic Japanese, and My First Japanese Kanji Book. Anna Sato is co-author and illustrator of My First Japanese Kanji Book. She is also the translator of 100 First Words for Toddlers and the illustrator of Reading & Writing Japanese.

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