No matter what others may say, the digital age does have its advantages. And that includes teaching young children to read better. In a study conducted by Japan’s Kyoto University, researchers found out that children reading an e-book are more likely to develop better reading skills than those using a printed copy.
ja-dark: Wouldn’t you learners of Japanese like to have some well-formatted Japanese eBooks all set up for you? If only someone posted a hidden link to such a collection on tumblr, emphasizing quality over quantity.
That tumblr link would probably be hidden in a shortened URL, because you can customize the URL that’s generated by sites like TinyURL.
What’s funny is, you can make the shortened URL look random, like tinyurl.com/6sEBWcRp … when in fact it might not be random. Someone could have deliberately used the random-looking “6sEBWcRp” as the custom URL. Why would they do such a thing?
By the way, are you familiar with Pastebin? The link to Pastebin is http://pastebin.com/ … Pastebin also generates random links that look very similar to the above.
By the way, in order to read Japanese with a method similar to the one in the article, with audio and automatically highlighted text, see this post’s instructions and various links.
Full Paper: Development of reading ability is facilitated by intensive exposure to a digital children’s picture book
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