Japanese Websites: Japanese AudioBooks with Transcripts
I saw this page from How To Learn Any Language a while ago (it might be that someone put it in comments) but neglected to link to it despite how cool it is: a headshot jackpot mother lode of Japanese audio materials with transcripts. They range from children’s books to some more, what’s the word, anyway, there’s a lot of range. What’s exciting to me about this is that it has links to all those European fairy tales you and I grew up with (yay!). I’ve been listening to Snow White and The Emperor’s New Clothes this morning. Anyway, give it try. AFAIK, it’s all free! Freeee!
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Christina said,
June 23, 2008 @ 10:25 am
humph. I havent seen many links for Chinese websites….. lol. When are they coming?
doviende said,
June 23, 2008 @ 11:29 am
I’ve found that my local library (Vancouver, Canada) has chinese audio books in both mandarin and cantonese. I haven’t yet had time to go down there and check them out (due to work taking up all my time), but they’re in the online catalogue. I don’t think they’ll be transcripts of a book, probably abridged for the audio version.
there are some audio podcasts with transcripts over at lingq . check out the chinese section. i just listened to a podcast about the sichuan earthquake, and there’s an exact transcript for it on the site.
Roki said,
June 23, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Someone has also done something similar for audiobooks in Chinese (Mandarin): http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9414&PN=2
Mike said,
June 23, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Khatzumoto, just wandering, did you do the audio in the story “Not Yet”? Like is that your voice?
khatzumoto said,
June 23, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
俺だ。I hate that story…
captal said,
June 23, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
Looks like it’s all in .rm- I believe that’s RealPlayer right? I had it a few years back and despised it- any suggestions on good players?
aitsunodudosuito said,
June 24, 2008 @ 12:17 am
That looks to be the holy grail of reading material! Thanks Khatz- thats gonna be pretty useful!
X3R0 said,
June 24, 2008 @ 4:12 am
@capital
I use K-lite Codec Pack (google it) with Media Player Classic and that plays pretty much everything. There’s also CCCP or something and VLC Player but VLC is too bulky imo
Mike said,
June 25, 2008 @ 4:37 am
“俺だ。I hate that story…”
If it makes you feel better, they really help beginners. Your Japanese is really awesome (obviously). You are a huge inspiration.
Any who, on a less melodramatic note, I posted the link to your blog on another site (one of the learn Japanese in 5 minutes sites) and they said that you were just “posting amazon links to pimp readers money”. Yes, they actually said “pimp”. Even if you were a complete fake, I wouldn’t care, because your advice is so useful.
I realize why you recommended staying away from internet forums now….
Anyways, keep up the good work.
toadhjo said,
June 25, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
This probably isn’t the proper place for this, but I can’t contain myself…
やった！I just finished Heisig Vol. 1! Took me a little under two months (my goal was actually to finish by the end of this month, but I started speeding up when I could tell the end was near…) I definitely don’t have them all “in my head” yet, and I probably (mmm…make that definitely) need to touch up a few of my stories, but Anki should take care of most of that within the next few months as long as I continue to do my reps.
Anyway, I have a few questions/comments, I might shoot you an e-mail sometime in the near future. And thank you for the inspiration!
Mike said,
June 26, 2008 @ 2:44 am
Lol I am jealous of you toadhjo. Great job! I just reached the half way mark (1022) yesterday, so I hope to be done soon too. Anyways, I am going to quit writing and go do my reps instead.
bubble said,
July 8, 2008 @ 10:59 am
不思議の国のアリス？日本語で？
わぁ〜、どうもありがとうございます！
そして、おめでとうございます、toadhoさん。よくがんばったんですね。
アメリカ人だけど、フランス語で外国語を勉強する事のブログを書くつもりです。いつからまだわかりませんけど、きっとできると思います。
In English: Alice in Wonderland? In Japanese!
Wow, thank you so much!
Congratulations, toadho! You kick ***. =P (=P for the silly English translation)
I’m an American, but I plan to start a language-learning blog in French. I don’t yet know when I’ll start, but I’m sure I can do it.
Noah said,
October 27, 2008 @ 7:15 am
Khatzumoto
I am hoping you can comment on some of these audio books and which use modern language, as opposed to old language used to reflect the time/context of the story.
Thanks!
Grophrane said,
March 10, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
This is great for night-time listening since it hasn’t got any beats in it (Like music).
First time I tried to listen to something in Japanese, as I slept, I dreamt a weird dream in Japanese, even though it was limited to an eating situation since I’m still only doing kanji (555). Was fun as heck though, dreamt I had a Japanese family and that my normal family had come to visit, and that their manners sucked and I had to be a diplomat and explain everything to them. Lol….
Anyways, thanks for posting, you cheeky rascals ^_^
Goshinbi said,
May 4, 2009 @ 12:47 pm
Thanks, it’s great to have audio with transcripts.
on another note,I recently found something called key hole TV. (http://www.v2p.jp/video/english/) It seems to have been started by the government. It has japanese tv channels and radio in live streams. Perhaps you can add it to your site. Sorry it’s a bit out of place but I don’t know where to post it.
Ronald said,
June 19, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
Like serious KHATS wtf would we do without you? Ive been looking for audio books since i first began my journey but you discovered a site where we can download them for free along with their text scripts? *SNIFF SNIFF* “I promised myself i wouldn’t cry”