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Japanese Tunnels: The Easy Way to Read, Listen, and Learn from Japanese History and Stories
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Series: Japanese History Reader, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Easy Way to Read, Listen, and Learn from Japanese History and Essays
Recommended for Upper Beginner and Intermediate Students of Japanese
Japan is a mountainous country ringed by sea, and for centuries its answer has been to dig. This volume of the Japanese History & Essays series presents three essays on the tunnels that resulted-and the people who made them:
- Tunnels in Japan - Why a country this mountainous ended up with more tunnels than almost anywhere on Earth.
- The Blue Tunnel - The monk who spent thirty years chiseling a passage through a cliff face by hand.
- The Seikan Tunnel - The undersea link between Honshu and Hokkaido, and what it cost to build.
Each essay follows the same path: a short primer on the history and grammar to watch for, then the essay one sentence per page with full vocabulary and notes, then the complete Japanese text without help, exercises, an English summary, and a page for every key kanji.
What's Inside:
- Line-by-Line Breakdowns - Every sentence gets furigana on all kanji, a complete vocabulary list, and grammar or culture notes right where you need them.
- Before You Read Primers - Historical background and grammar patterns for each essay, so you start oriented instead of lost.
- Grammar Spotlights, Cultural Notes & Maps - Short boxed notes throughout, plus maps of Japan showing where events took place.
- Full Japanese Text - After the breakdowns, read each essay straight through. No training wheels.
- Review & Practice - True-or-false, comprehension, particle, and translation exercises for every essay, with a complete answer key.
- English Summaries - A close English version of each essay for checking your understanding.
- Kanji in Focus - One full page per important kanji: stroke-order diagram, readings, component parts, an example word, and a memory hook to make it stick.
- Free Audio at Two Speeds - Native-speaker recordings at natural pace and slow-and-clear, downloadable or streamed instantly via QR code. No sign-up required.
- Makoto+ Sentence Explorer - Every sentence in this book is also in the free Makoto+ app (iOS and Android) and on the web: tap to hear audio, explore word-by-word breakdowns, and quiz yourself with built-in games.
- Free Anki Flashcard Decks - Review the book's vocabulary with spaced repetition on PC, Mac, or mobile.
Your purchase also includes free PDF and EPUB editions and free updates for life. Unlock everything with the code in the back of the book.
Questions or suggestions for future readers? Our email address is inside-we answer.
To your Japanese!
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