Learn Japanese with Stories AUDIOBOOK BUNDLE [5 Volume Bundle] [DIGITAL DOWNLOAD]

What you get

5 audiobooks + MP3s + eBook PDFs + app access

It's a digital bundle, so nothing is shipped. Right after checkout we email you a link to download one folder per audiobook:

How each story is taught

Seven passes, so it sinks in

1. 1PreviewA short English introduction, so you know where you're headed.
2. 2VocabularyThe key words in Japanese, then English, with room to repeat.
3. 3Slow speedThe whole story, read slowly and clearly.
4. 4Line by lineEach sentence in bite-size phrases with their English, then put back together.
5. 5Natural speedThe same story at a natural pace. Hear how much more you catch.
6. 6QuestionsHear a question, answer out loud, then hear the answer.
7. 7English versionThe whole story in English, to confirm what you understood.

Press play in the car or on a walk. No book needed, though the PDF is there when you want it.

What's inside

5 audiobooks, 12 folktales

The first five volumes of Learn Japanese with Stories, each one a full audiobook. Running times are for the chapters; the bonus tracks come on top.

1. 彦

   Step 1

   Volume 1: Hikoichi

   Four tales of the clever boy who outwits lords and tengu: the Young Lord, the Hanami, the Living Umbrella and Tengu's Straw Raincoat. 2 hr 42 min.

   
2. 桃

   Step 2

   Volume 2: Momotaro

   Momotaro, the Peach Boy, and the Tortoise and the Hare, plus three culture chapters: the Momotaro song, きびだんご and Okayama, and what an oni is. 2 hr 2 min.

   
3. 月

   Step 3

   Volume 3: The Inch-High Samurai and Kaguya-hime

   The tiny samurai who sails to the capital in a rice bowl, and the princess from the moon. 1 hr 47 min.

   
4. 休

   Step 4

   Volume 4: The Mouse Bride and Ikkyū-san

   A mouse family's search for the mightiest groom, and the quick-witted young monk Ikkyū-san. 1 hr 8 min.

   
5. 雀

   Step 5

   Volume 5: The Cut-Tongue Sparrow and Kobutori-jiisan

   Two tales about kindness and greed: the sparrow who repays a kind old man, and the old man whose lump the oni take away. 2 hr 14 min.

   
6. N4Volumes 6 to 8 are out too, as single audiobooks

In the app too

Listen in the Makoto+ app

All five audiobooks also play in the Makoto+ Japanese Explorer app for iPhone, iPad and Android. Sign in with the email you used at checkout and they're waiting in your Library. Here is the player, and the live transcript that follows along as you listen.

• Follow the Japanese as it plays, with furigana you can turn off
• Show the English when you need it
• Repeat a line, or a whole chapter
• A shadowing mode to speak along
• Jump to any chapter, and set a sleep timer

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