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Frank and the Obaasan · Volume 2

Frank and the Obaasan - Volume 2

Clay & Yumi Boutwell · Makoto Press

Upper Beginner JLPT N5–N4 Read it in the app

Ten more episodes of an alien loose in Japan, told almost entirely in dialogue.

Frank is an alien, the obaasan is unimpressed, and the two of them talk their way through ten episodes involving a stolen kawaii thing, a shinkansen to Tokyo, and an old man who knows more than he says. Because it is nearly all conversation, the sentences are about half the length of anything else we publish, which makes it the easiest reading in the collection.

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Upper Beginner · JLPT N5–N4. Short sentences, small kanji range. Where to start if you've finished a first textbook.

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Distinct kanji
197
Kanji density
17.6%
Average sentence
12.1
N5–N3 vocabulary
81.1%
Pages
269

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