短文チャレンジ – Fukui Prefecture
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How to improve your Japanese vocabulary and reading skills with 100 Word Challenge. While you can approach these lessons in any order, here are a few tips:
- Review the Key Vocabulary below
- Read the story in either the EASY version or the native-level NORMAL version or both (Click or tap the tabs to view the essay)
- Read again while listening to the audio
- Listen to the audio alone
- Take the quiz to test sentence structure and understanding. The first few questions are based on the simplified article and the last are based on the native-level article.
- Lastly, leave a comment about the article ! Let us know what you think!
Fukui prefecture has many other attractions not mentioned in the essays. For example, it has one of the world's largest dinosaur museums and Sabae city is well-known for its eye-glass production.
KEY VOCABULARY
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- 福井県 Fukui Prefecture
- 日本の中部地方 Chubu region of Japan
- 位置する located
- 県 prefecture
- 人口 population
- およそ approximately
- 77万人 770,000 people
- 日本海 Sea of Japan
- 面して facing
- 自然豊かな rich in nature
- 場所 place
- たくさん many; a lot of
- 例えば for example
- 山々 mountains
- 海岸線 coastline
- 湖 lake
- おいしい delicious
- お米 rice
- 観光地 tourist spot
- 芦原温泉 Awara Onsen
- 三方五湖 Mikata Five Lakes
- 歴史的な historical
- 遺産 heritage
- 文化財 cultural asset
- 豊富 abundant
- 永平寺 Eiheiji Temple
- 越前大仏 Echizen Great Buddha
- 史跡 historic site
- 農業 agriculture
- 漁業 fishing industry
- 盛んで thriving
- 福井県産米 rice produced in Fukui Prefecture
- ブランド米 branded rice
- いちほまれ Ichihomare (brand of rice)
- 鮮魚 fresh fish
- 全国的に nationally
- 有名 famous
- 自然 nature
- 歴史 history
- 共存する coexist
- よく知られています well-known
- 魅力的な attractive
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Really great reading practice (and listening practice). Thank you!
Thank you! I’m glad you liked it. I just posted a new one here: https://www.thejapanesepage.com/about-mt-fuji/
Thank you for taking the time to do this, it is a terrific exercise. “Just 100 words!” You got me to do it. 😉
Awesome! I started with about 500 words and thought, this is too much. I think 100 (give or take a bit) is just enough to actually contain information but be short enough to work through.
Great! Thanks a lot for the texts. Two tiny things: in the “normal” text there is no pronunciation for shiseki at the end of line 5; there is a “strange” (?) pronunciation for Echizen Daibutsu in key vocabulary.
Ah! Thank you. I should have proofread better. I was in a rush to get this published since we had to go somewhere, but it’s fixed now. Thanks for that.