２０１８の洪水

Something I posted recently on FB.  Had to look up some 言葉。ここあります。

dam　　　　 ダム
flood　　　　洪水
lake   　          湖
basement　　地下
drain　　       排水する
died                死亡しました
got repaired   修理されました
All are safe    誰もが安全です。

I am less confident than usual that my translations are correct. 

Here's the post.  I know it's clunky.  We learn by doing.

３週間前に、私の近い湖は洪水がありました。私の家の地下が水ありました。町は湖を排水しました。今日（金曜日）湖のダムが修理されました、そして、あの道の上で運転するができます。誰もが安全です、うれしいですね。

Beginning Japanese by Kluempler

This textbook is looking pretty cool.

OK, I don't know if it would be good for true beginners.  Chapter 1 and we're already seeing kanji.  But for practice reading, I am loving it.

I wonder why I never heard about this online?  My wife found it in the new books section at the library.  It's obviously a school textbook.  Maybe it's too new.  Maybe people think school textbooks are icky.

Looking forward to some reading practice that, I hope, won't have me running to the dictionary 3 times per sentence.

(Oh, and it's cheap, too:  $20 to Genki's $40 and JfZ!'s $30.