Chapter 20 of Kimono is here in full — 240 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 20 of Kimono is here in full — 240 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru. Ide, wagimi! Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me. Come, my Lord! Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
Chapter 20 of Kimono is here in full — 240 sentences across 48 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/48 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “Come, my Lord!”
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.
From this reading “Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!”
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading “Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.”
a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese
From this reading “THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.”
the act of hearing attentively
From this reading “Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!”
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading “Come, my Lord!”
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading “Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.”
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
From this reading “Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, my Lord!
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ide, wagimi!
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
the act of hearing attentively
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading Come, my Lord!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Come, my Lord!
a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
not any; not one
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Do not dream of listening To the between-words of people!
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
being or feeling set or kept apart from others
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Ide, wagimi!
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
which person or people
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hito no naka-goto Kiki-kosu na yume!_ It is other people who have separated You and me.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THE KIMONO _Na we to wa wo Hito zo saku naru.
Chapter 20 of Kimono by John Paris holds 240 sentences, grouped into 48 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 20 holds 240 sentences of Kimono, unabridged, divided into 48 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 20 of Kimono by John Paris exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 240 sentences, grouped into 48 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 48 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 48 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 20 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 541 minutes of reading across 1299 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Kimono section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 27 chapters of Kimono to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in Kimono, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
