Reading club invitation: which book to bring

Japanese text

Before opening the translation, read the Japanese and check the people, times and conditions. This is a fictional learning text.

1. 本を読むことが好きな人のために、日曜日に小さな読書会を開きます。会の名前は「ことばの庭」といいます。

   On Sunday we are holding a small reading club for people who like books. The club is called “Kotoba no Niwa”.

2. 日本語で書かれた本を全部読めなくても、参加できます。短い話や絵の多い本でも大丈夫です。

   You may join even if you cannot finish an entire book written in Japanese. Short stories and books with many pictures are fine too.

3. 持ってくるのは、自分が最近読んだ本を一冊だけです。まだ読んでいない本ではなく、少しでも読んだ本を選んでください。

   Bring just one book you have read recently. Choose a book you have read at least a little, rather than one you have not started.

4. 最初に一人ずつ、どんな本かを二分で紹介します。その後、同じ本に興味がある人どうしで話します。

   First, each person will introduce their book for two minutes. Then people interested in the same book will talk together.

5. 先生は「分からない言葉をすべて調べるより、気になった言葉を三つ選んでみましょう」と言っていました。

   The teacher said, “Instead of looking up every unknown word, try choosing three words that caught your interest.”

6. 会は二時から三時半までです。場所は駅の南口から歩いて五分のカフェです。飲み物代は自分で払ってください。

   The meeting runs from two until three thirty. It is at a café five minutes’ walk from the station’s south exit. Pay for your own drink.