Download or read book My Little Sister Can Read Kanji Volume 1 written by Takashi Kajii and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2016-12-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2202, and Japan has become the land of moe. Aspiring author Gin Imose and his little sister Kuroha are traveling to TOKYO to meet with the world famous author, Gai Odaira. Kuroha is uninterested in his orthodox literary style, and amazingly is able to read ancient modern Japanese books written in kanji! This fateful encounter sets off a chain of events that could change the course of literary history! Could it be that, long ago, books could be about more than little sisters showing their panties and getting in compromising situations with their non-blood- related older brothers? Impossible! It's hard to even imagine a Japan where everyone could read kanji and the Prime Minister was a 3D human being...

Download or read book My Little Sister Can Read Kanji Volume 3 written by Takashi Kajii and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 23rd century is back to normal: The prime minister is a 2D character again and kanji has been banished to the history books... Except for the appearance of the Special Cultural District that keeps up the old writing style and traditions, that is. But that shouldn't affect Gin Imose's life, after all. Until one day, he receives an email from someone who shouldn't even exist... his long-lost blood-related little sister!

Download or read book My Little Sister Can Read Kanji Volume 5 written by Takashi Kajii and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gin continues to spend relaxing days with Yuzu and his sisters, though he can feel Kuroha's jealousy gradually accumulating. But one day, Professor Choumabayshi tells him something ominous: "If you don't get together with Kuroha, she'll be erased." Kuroha has become a key factor to changing history, and the forces of evil are aiming for her. For the sake of moe culture and everyone he loves, Gin paves the way to the future!

Download or read book My Little Sister Can Read Kanji Volume 2 written by Takashi Kajii and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23rd century Japan... a land overflowing with moe, where little sister vs big sister vs childhood friend are the major questions of society... Or at least it was, until Gin and his sisters somehow changed the future! Now the prime minister is some old guy with glasses and all the signs are written in indecipherable kanji! This is bad! There's got to be some way to change the future back to the way it should be!

Download or read book My Little Sister Can Read Kanji Volume 4 written by Takashi Kajii and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gin's summer is just beginning, and his family and all his little sisters (even old men that just take the form of little sisters) head to the beach for a little fun, which can only mean one thing: Literary Experiences galore!

Download or read book Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book Volume 1 written by Eriko Sato, Ph.D. and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable study guide and practice book for learning basic Japanese kanji. Learning Japanese Kanji Practice Book is intended for beginning students or experienced speakers who need to practice their written Japanese. Kanji are an essential part of the Japanese language and together with kana (hiragana and katakana) comprise written Japanese. This book presents the kanji characters that are most commonly used. All the kanji and related vocabulary words in this book are those that students are expected to know for Level 5 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. (JLPT). Characters that appear in the AP Japanese Language and Culture Exam are flagged. Readings, meanings, and common compounds are presented. The correct method of writing each character is clearly indicated, and practice boxes with strokes that can be traced are provided, along with empty boxes for freehand writing practice. Lots of exercises are included to give students the opportunity to practice writing sentences containing the Kanji. Indexes at the back allow you to look up the characters by their readings and English meanings. This kanji book includes: Step-by-step stroke order diagrams for each character. Special boxes with grid lines to practice writing characters. Extra printable practice grids Words and phrases using each kanji. Romanizations (romanji) to help identify and pronounce every word.

Download or read book Japanese Stories for Language Learners written by Anne McNulty and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery—especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with English and Japanese language versions appearing on facing pages. Taking learners on an exciting cultural and linguistic journey, each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, Japanese vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises. The first two stories are very famous traditional Japanese folktales: Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman). These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th century authors: Kumo no Ito (The Spider's Thread) by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) Oborekaketa Kyodai (The Siblings Who Almost Drowned) by Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) Serohiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist) by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) Reading these stories in the original Japanese script--and hearing native-speakers read them aloud in the accompanying free audio recording--helps students at every level deepen their comprehension of the beauty and subtlety of the Japanese language. Learn Japanese the fun way—through the country's rich literary history.

Download or read book Midnight and the Meaning of Love written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Life After Death, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it. Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his family’s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway. “There’s not one drop of inferiority in my blood,” Midnight says as he first secures his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja, before setting off on a global journey to reclaim his wife. Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures in his attempt to defeat his opponent. Along this magnificent journey he meets people who change him forever, even as he changes them. He encounters temptations he never would have imagined and takes risks that many a lesser man would say no to, all for the women he loves and is sworn to protect.

Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.” —The Chicago Tribune

Download or read book Japanese Kanji for Beginners written by Timothy G. Stout and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The method that's helped thousands in the U.S. and Japan learn Japanese successfully. The Japanese language has two primary writing systems, kanji characters--which are based on Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana--a mnemonics based alphabet. This handy book teaches you a new mnemonics-based method to read and write the 430 highest-frequency kanji characters. Along with its sister book: Japanese Hiragana and Katakana for Beginners it provides a complete introduction to written Japanese. Japanese Kanji for Beginners contains everything you need to learn the kanji characters required for the Advanced Placement Japanese Language and Culture Exam. It is designed for use by high school or college students as well as independent learners. The kanji learned in this book closely adhere to those introduced in every major Japanese language textbook. Key features of Japanese Kanji for Beginners include: The 430 highest-frequency kanji characters 44 simple, easy-to-follow lessons Concise information on kanji elements, readings and pronunciations Extensive exercises, drills, and writing practice Downloadable content with printable flash cards, practice quizzes and extra exercises The Extensive downloadable content contains a set of printable kanji flash cards to assist learners in reviewing and memorizing the kanji in the book. It also provides sample vocabulary quizzes in a multiple-choice format similar to those in the AP exam, as well as additional exercises that further reinforce the newly learned kanji.

Download or read book Dr Slump Vol 1 written by Akira Toriyama and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basking in the glow of his scientific achievement, Senbei scrambles to get Arale in working order so the rest of Penguin Village won't have reason to suspect she's not really a girl. But first Senbei needs to find her a pair of glasses and some clothes... -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy Two Bestselling Novels written by Lisa See and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across two critically acclaimed linked novels, now together in this eBook bundle, Lisa See unfolds a captivating saga of the bonds between women—mothers and daughters, sisters and friends—while illuminating the events of China’s tumultuous history. SHANGHAI GIRLS “As in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, [See] has . . . created ordinary women who, through willfulness and resiliency, accomplish extraordinary things.”—Miami Herald In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors from Los Angeles. As Pearl and May set out from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America, they face impossible choices and confront a life-changing secret, but through it all the two sisters hold fast to who they are—Shanghai girls. DREAMS OF JOY “Astonishing . . . a story with characters who enter a reader’s life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history.”—Los Angeles Times Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Pearl’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy, runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—an artist with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Terrified for Joy’s safety, Pearl returns to Shanghai, determined to save her daughter. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives. Praise for Lisa See “Explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today, on Shanghai Girls “As compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey.”—The Denver Post, on Shanghai Girls “See is a gifted historical novelist. . . . The real love story, the one that’s artfully shown, is between mother and daughter, and aunt and daughter.”—San Francisco Chronicle, on Dreams of Joy “See’s research feels impeccable, and she has created an authentic, visually arresting world.”—The Washington Post, on Dreams of Joy

Download or read book Kanji de Manga Vol 1 written by Glenn Kardy and published by Manga University. This book was released on 2005 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to eighty of the most commonly used Japanese kanji characters, with English translation and a pronunciation guide, in a text with a comic book format.

Download or read book Blank Manga Book written by Manga Drawing Books and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Blank Manga book has 120 action template manga pages (Five panel action templates). Good Quality white paper. Size 8.5 x11 (large). High quality Matte cover. Perfect for sketching and drawing manga actions. Suitable for students, artists, teens, kids and adults.

Download or read book 1 written by 木藤亜也 and published by IBC PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2007-06-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 「わたしは何のために生きているの?」中学3年生で脊髄小脳変性症を発病し、歩くことも、話すこともままならなくなりながら、必死で自らの生きる道を見つけようとする亜也。母はともに悩み、時に涙しながら亜也を支え、導いてゆく。本書は亜也が治療の助けとなるようにと書き続けた日記であり、生きることに希望を見いだそうとする魂の叫びである。

Download or read book The Book of Japanese Language written by Alex Adler and published by Alexadler. This book was released on 2021-03-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Japanese Language is the combination of four parts in one with the aim of gathering in a single volume the necessary knowledge so that any student of Japanese can organically learn the grammatical rules of the language, the most common words, and at the same time be able to consult the great majority of grammatical forms that are used in Japanese on a daily basis.The four parts of the book are Vocabulary, Grammar Explanations, Expressing Yourself in Japanese, and Grammar Dictionary. In Vocabulary, you will find the most common Japanese words with detailed explanations. In Grammar Explanations, you will find the most important conjugations and grammatical forms along with examples to help you understand them. Expressing Yourself in Japanese lists these grammatical forms according to their usage. Finally, in Grammar Dictionary you can find summarized explanations of most Japanese grammatical forms ordered alphabetically.

Download or read book Remembering the Hiragana written by James W. Heisig and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1987 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: