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Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
11) Too many pears!
Author
Publisher
Star Bright Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
日本語
Description
Pamela the cow loves pears so much that no one else ever has a chance to eat any.
13) Sumo colors
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
Description
"Take a peek into the lives of sumo wrestlers in this adorable book about colors! Simple, charming scenes with sumo wrestlers help young readers learn different colors, such as red, orange, blue, and black. The Japanese word that corresponds to the English word for each color is included."-- provided by publisher.
14) Sumo shapes
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Multiple
Description
"Take a peek into the lives of sumo wrestlers in this adorable book about shapes! Simple, charming scenes with sumo wrestlers help young readers learn different shapes, such as square, circle, pentagon, and crescent. The Japanese word that corresponds to the English word for each shape is included."-- provided by publisher.
16) Colors
Series
Publisher
Milet Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Illustrations captioned in English and Japanese present the names of the colors as well as words for a variety of familiar items.
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember all the key vocabulary and grammar. The plot picks up where Learn Japanese with Manga Volume 1 left off - following Nuria, a journalist who is sent to Tokyo to research a news story, where she keeps encountering a mysterious 'shadow' or kage.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a young Japanese girl moves into her new house, she is happy to see a girl her age playing in the snow just outside her window. The only problem is the Japanese girl doesn't speak English and the American girl doesn't speak Japanese. But each girl's love of the snow teaches them that they don't need to speak the same language to have fun!"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, students of the Japanese language have everything they need in Tuttle's Japanese Picture Dictionary. Deftly illustrating the use of more than 1,500 commonly used Japanese words and phrases, author Timothy Stout gives learners a clear, easy-to-use introduction to this fascinating language. Richly illustrated with more than 750 color photographs, the Japanese Picture Dictionary convenient format and highly visual...
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