Strange but True: A True-Life Japanese Reader (Power Japanese Series)

By Tom Gally

An introduction to reading Japanese, this text presents eight real-life stories. The Power Japanese series presents a selection of guides to difficult or confusing aspects of the Japanese language.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4770020570
• ISBN13: 9784770020574
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Kodansha
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Useful book

I have just finished reading this book. As a fairly poor reader of Japanese, I found it extremely useful. The stories were enjoyable to read, and I could see myself dipping back into many of them again.

More stories would've been nice ...

The stories in this book were truely fascinating, and I like the compact size as well. However, what disappointed me the most was the unusually large proportion of explanations that accompanied the text. The actual stories made up barely 10% of this book. Granted, the aim of the book is to be able to read it without needing a dictionary, but still a breakdown of each and every sentence seemed a little like overkill.I would love to see another reader from the people at "Power Japanese." But hopefully one with more Japanese text in it. The number of good Japanese readers is so small, I'd rather sacrifice some time looking up a word or phrase if it means having the opportunity to have more real Japanese to read.