Japanese Tales
Interactive story

The Surprise Party

Aya, your companion
Aya, your companion

It's Aya's birthday. Your friends are already at the house, and you arrive a little late in the neighborhood.

Follow short directions through the neighborhood and get to the house without Aya seeing you.

  • 読Read with support
  • 話Choose what to say
  • 挑Try without support

Expressions you will practice

I can understand when someone talks about a birthday.

今日は友達の誕生日です。きょうはともだちのたんじょうびです。Today is a friend's birthday.

I can understand a simple direction to go straight.

ここからまっすぐ行きます。ここからまっすぐいきます。From here I go straight.

I can understand when I need to turn on a short route.

その道を左に曲がります。そのみちをひだりにまがります。I turn left on that street.

This story is in the app, with its choices, the lesson and the game. On the web you can play the ones marked as free.

Interactive story

This story isn't read: it's played

In the app you choose what to answer in Japanese and the story follows what you say. If you slip, Ken lends a hand and you try again. 9 more scenes, plus a grammar lesson and a game, are waiting there.

Getting started is free. See what the app offers.

The 3expressions you'll practice in this story

This is what you learn by playing it, with its reading and meaning.

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