JA Audiobook Learn Japanese
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About JA Audiobook Learn Japanese
Optimize your time and learn Japanese smartly. JA Audiobook is a unique and entertaining Japanese reading assistant that helps you acquire effective communication in Japanese, whether you are a beginner or you already have an intermediate level.
JA Audiobook contains a series of texts in order of increasing difficulty with sound and background music for each text that will entertain and help you stay focused, or even touch you and make you laugh! At any time, press on a sentence in the text for detailed information:
• Complete grammar fact sheets that explain the structures used.
• Fact sheets on the Japanese particles and counters encountered in the sentence.
• Many additional comments.
• A list of words used in the sentence with their meaning.
• A detailed Kanji sheet accompanied by a tool that will assess your writing.
• The complete conjugation and verbal constructions for each verb.
• Assess your understanding of the text with a quiz at the end of each text, and get access to the translation of the text.
JA Audiobook is like a teacher who remains at your side, ready to assist you when you are stuck. The objective is to rapidly familiarize yourself with authentic Japanese content and easily assimilate it for reuse in your own statements.
You may already know many Japanese words and have read many lessons, but you are still unable to understand and express yourself naturally. Working with the JA Audiobook texts:
• You memorize syntactic patterns that become natural and automatic.
• You will learn words in context.
• You will learn how to read Kanji (Japanese characters) in texts.
• Your reading of Hiragana and Katakana will flow better without you noticing.
• You will have more confidence in your level in Japanese, and you will thus progress faster.
JA Audiobook is the missing link between your knowledge of the language (a set of individual words and grammar rules) and communicative competence that you want to achieve. Because you do not want to become an encyclopedia of the Japanese language, but simply to talk with your Japanese friends or to watch Japanese shows on TV.
By the numbers:
• 20 texts for a total listening length of more than 60 minutes
• 877 different words
• 577 different Kanji used
• 80 different grammar sheets
• 74 different particle usages
• 19 Japanese counters
• Over 40MB of carefully crafted Japanese material and data to install
• 9 Japanese native speakers to bring more variation and improve your listening
List of texts included:
• Usagi- san, an Unexpected Hero: funny and moving tale for beginners. (7 texts)
• The Strange Encounter of Kenta: story between a young boy and an old lady, for beginners. (5 texts)
• Don't be late for the meeting! : dialogue between two colleagues to learn the polite oral form. (1 text)
• Tomoko’s Journal: introduction to the informal style in writing. (1 text)
• City or Country?: argumentative conversation to express your opinion in Japanese. (1 text)
• Barbecue with Friends: telephone conversation between two students in informal speech. (1 text)
• Yumi - Not easy to be a father: humorous text between an overwhelmed father, and his daughter. Colloquial and oral language is highlighted. (1 text)
• Yumi - I want a tablet! : dialog between two schoolgirls. Oral forms are used. (1 text)
• Cultural Experience in Japan: learn to tell about your trip to Japan in Japanese with more complex sentences that prepare you for the next level. (2 texts)
These texts will mainly help you to take the JLPT N5 and JLPT N4.
Once the texts are downloaded, no Internet connection is required.
JA Audiobook is fully available in ENGLISH and FRENCH.
To fully utilize JA Audiobook, it is advisable to know Hiragana and Katakana. If this is not the case or if you do not know what it is, install the free JA Sensei application, a complementary and comprehensive application which will teach you all the necessary basics and much more.
JA Audiobook contains a series of texts in order of increasing difficulty with sound and background music for each text that will entertain and help you stay focused, or even touch you and make you laugh! At any time, press on a sentence in the text for detailed information:
• Complete grammar fact sheets that explain the structures used.
• Fact sheets on the Japanese particles and counters encountered in the sentence.
• Many additional comments.
• A list of words used in the sentence with their meaning.
• A detailed Kanji sheet accompanied by a tool that will assess your writing.
• The complete conjugation and verbal constructions for each verb.
• Assess your understanding of the text with a quiz at the end of each text, and get access to the translation of the text.
JA Audiobook is like a teacher who remains at your side, ready to assist you when you are stuck. The objective is to rapidly familiarize yourself with authentic Japanese content and easily assimilate it for reuse in your own statements.
You may already know many Japanese words and have read many lessons, but you are still unable to understand and express yourself naturally. Working with the JA Audiobook texts:
• You memorize syntactic patterns that become natural and automatic.
• You will learn words in context.
• You will learn how to read Kanji (Japanese characters) in texts.
• Your reading of Hiragana and Katakana will flow better without you noticing.
• You will have more confidence in your level in Japanese, and you will thus progress faster.
JA Audiobook is the missing link between your knowledge of the language (a set of individual words and grammar rules) and communicative competence that you want to achieve. Because you do not want to become an encyclopedia of the Japanese language, but simply to talk with your Japanese friends or to watch Japanese shows on TV.
By the numbers:
• 20 texts for a total listening length of more than 60 minutes
• 877 different words
• 577 different Kanji used
• 80 different grammar sheets
• 74 different particle usages
• 19 Japanese counters
• Over 40MB of carefully crafted Japanese material and data to install
• 9 Japanese native speakers to bring more variation and improve your listening
List of texts included:
• Usagi- san, an Unexpected Hero: funny and moving tale for beginners. (7 texts)
• The Strange Encounter of Kenta: story between a young boy and an old lady, for beginners. (5 texts)
• Don't be late for the meeting! : dialogue between two colleagues to learn the polite oral form. (1 text)
• Tomoko’s Journal: introduction to the informal style in writing. (1 text)
• City or Country?: argumentative conversation to express your opinion in Japanese. (1 text)
• Barbecue with Friends: telephone conversation between two students in informal speech. (1 text)
• Yumi - Not easy to be a father: humorous text between an overwhelmed father, and his daughter. Colloquial and oral language is highlighted. (1 text)
• Yumi - I want a tablet! : dialog between two schoolgirls. Oral forms are used. (1 text)
• Cultural Experience in Japan: learn to tell about your trip to Japan in Japanese with more complex sentences that prepare you for the next level. (2 texts)
These texts will mainly help you to take the JLPT N5 and JLPT N4.
Once the texts are downloaded, no Internet connection is required.
JA Audiobook is fully available in ENGLISH and FRENCH.
To fully utilize JA Audiobook, it is advisable to know Hiragana and Katakana. If this is not the case or if you do not know what it is, install the free JA Sensei application, a complementary and comprehensive application which will teach you all the necessary basics and much more.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
- Android 7 Ready!
- Improved readability on the focused sentence in the detailed view
- Improved general stability
- New scroll to position module
- The app now remembers the latest selected sentence for each text
- Android 7 Ready!
- Improved readability on the focused sentence in the detailed view
- Improved general stability
- New scroll to position module
- The app now remembers the latest selected sentence for each text
Version update JA Audiobook Learn Japanese was updated to version 1.0.10
More downloads JA Audiobook Learn Japanese reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update JA Audiobook Learn Japanese was updated to version 1.0.8
Price update Price changed from $5.70 to $4.99.
What are users saying about JA Audiobook Learn Japanese
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Really nice app. Good for putting it all together. Maybe not good for absolute beginners but great for the next step. Once you can read kana and basic kanji get this app. Great explanations of mostly everything. Storys are OK but story voices are really good.
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I'm very impressed after just 5 minutes. Question for developer, in the study reference, why is the vocab list 英和 English to Japanese only? Perhaps there should be a 和英 toggle switch...? This would make it much easier to look up unknown words. Also, are favorite sentences an uncompleted feature? I can't find anywhere to look them up once I've starred them. Perhaps it should be called mark text or underline text.
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I love this app. In conjunction with JA sensei. This really help me boost my japanese reading ang listening skills. 1 request though is to be able to listen to the audio book even when the screen is turned off since as of now it will stop playing when the screen is turned off. (Getting the premium account ia totally worth it specially the samurai account for 50€)
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Wonderful reading complementary to JA sensei I have bought this app to support the developer as he has done a good job in making and updating JA Sensei. This app is recommended once you have a basic grasp of hiragana, katakana and have studied the N5 and N4 vocabulary. There are also more advanced lessons that I haven't touched yet. The dialogues have furigana and the words are read out to you. It is like having a sensei read out a book to you, but much more convenient and cost efficient. At the end of the dialogue, there will be a quiz to test out your comprehension.
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I love this app. Its incredibly useful and fun to use. The stories are cute and make me laugh at times. My only suggestion though is adding more stories. Otherwise great app!
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More interesting to learn from story and listening.However, I feel some of the English translation not very accurate. I have a JLPT 3 but have forgotten a lot as I seldom use. Overall still a good app
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Really great app for immersive Japanese learning. The developers also responded to my request to fix issues on the Pixel phones. Highly recommended
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Easy learning Japanese. Hope you could add continous play mode of all audio stories.Thank you and hope to enjoy more updates.More Power!
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I think this starts with the bar too high. The level in English is about barenstein bears level or a bit higher. I could really do with something more simple Dick and Jane level, or at least something a bit better to bridge the gap. Overall good app that I bought the paid version for.
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Excellent practice companion to the genki book series... If you want to learn Japanese then this is an outstanding app.
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I think it is great as it brings everything together. Good fun.
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I love that it starts off slow enough that it's easy to read along
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Good very useful worth buying it!
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Best ever I have found about Japanese language. It is useful a lot.
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Very helpful for reading capability
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This app makes it easier to understand spoken japanese.
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Lovely app. I really enjoyed usagi san
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Brilliant. Well thought out. Do it!
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Fantastic!
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Top RAS
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Great app
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Amazing.
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I really like that the vocab and grammar are easily accessible to help understand the text. My only issue is that there is nothing to tell you which questions you got right or wrong on the mini quiz. I hope there's more stories to come.
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This is simply the best app that I have found when it comes to both reading and listening practice, especially given the very competitive pricing. The user-interface is seamless. Plus points are the use of furigana, the ability to review new vocabulary and grammar introduced within a given sentence, links to extensive grammar pages and the ability to turn on an English translation after passing the relevant end of transcript test. The scripts are ideal for the beginner and more seasoned learner. I commenced using this app after only 2-3 weeks of Japanese study and having become confident that I could read hiragana. The stories are entertaining and as far as I can see, make use of authentic Japanese, insofar as there are idiomatic expressions as well as more 'textbook' Japanese. I can't find anything to constructively criticise and my only suggestion to the developer would be to develop additional transcripts or even something along the lines of JA Audiobook Intermediate. That said, the stories in this app never get boring. I do use other apps for reading comprehension, but for me this is my ichiban go-to app!!
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All applications are great,I've purchased both ja sensei and the audiobook BUT some are still missing that can be found only at japan activator website. I think that it's proper that purchasers of ja sensei and audiobook must have equal access to all.
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Though the app isn't perfect, it's still a great resource for learning to read Japanese. The audio track also helps with pronunciation. This is a great combination and I hope the developers continue adding more content and improvements.
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I love this app, it's exactly what I've been looking for to practice my reading and listening skills. The voice acting is great as well. Well worth the money for the content here. Will there be an option to buy more stories in the future?
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I am also learning Russian so i want my offline dictionary and audio and other LANGUAGE LEARNING data on my ext SD card folks. This is lollipop, so please edit that XML for the apk and give me a popup dialog to make my choice. Marshmallow? Nougat?
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I'm going to really like this app when it works on my phone (Pixel 5) but it's been broken for 2 months now. Please fix and I'll bump my rating
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This contains some decent stories, and has very descriptive explanations. This will not disappoint the average reader. Still waiting for updated stories, but what is here is great!
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You need to know the basic japanese to fully appreciate this app. I would love if there would be more linking features with JA sensei. Thank you!:)
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It gives you stories to listen to and follow reading to help study and hear the language to better your learning
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Unlimited potential - Sherlock Holmes, Hardy Boys, magazine articles. Make $1 addon packs - build a library. Great work - thanks.
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Degraded by music and sound effects.
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Good for learning vocabulary and grammar in context. The stories are fun and the sentence by sentence breakdown is great.
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Really like this app. Wish there was a way to increase speech to a more natural speed though.
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Perfect way to learn new kanji, expand your vocabulary and improve overall comprehension of the language.
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It helps a lot with reading practice. Looking forward to new lessons/books.
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This app would only be for those who know the structure of Japanese.
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If you've stared learning Japanese, but don't really know how to take the next step of actually using the knowledge you've gained, JA Audiobook is great. It will help you learn to read(and listen to) your first Japanese texts and conversations without just throwing you into the deep end. It will support you with explanations of what's going on in each sentence of the text until you feel confident enough to tackle Japanese texts with the help of a dictionary and the Internet. The developer really cares about the quality and usability of his apps and periodically adds content for free. Well worth supporting and getting a great tool to bridge the gap at the same time.