Botchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan.

A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of high-school yokels in the sticks will be simple-after all, they’re essentially living in yesteryear.
But our narrator soon learns that he is surrounded by schemers and tricksters and that the teaching job that should have been a walk in the park is more like a walk off a plank. Can he survive and make it back to civilization on Moral Fibre alone?

Syllabus
Nouns Abstract, concrete, animate, inanimate, collective, common, proper nouns, countable, uncountable.
Pronouns Interrogative who, what;
Indefinite someone, something,everything, anything, nothing.
Quantifiers All, a lot of, some/any, more.
Adjectives Demonstrative, possessive, qualifying.
Prepositions Place (Position and Direction), Time.
Verbs Affirmative, Negative, Interrogative, Infinitives, regular and common irregular verbs, Present Simple, Present Continuous with present meaning, Simple past, Imperative. Modal verbs can, have to, must.

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Román Botchan vznikol v roku 1906 a je považovaný za jeden z najobľúbenejších románov v Japonsku.

Tokijčan známy ako Botchan si myslí, že učiť pár hlúpych stredoškolákov bude jednoduché – veď vlastne prakticky žijú v minulosti. Ale rozprávač čoskoro zistí, že ho obklopujú samí podvodníci a práca učiteľa, ktorá mala byť prechádzkou ružovou záhradou, je skôr prechádzkou tŕnistou záhradou. Dokáže sa sám predrať späť iba s pomocou svojho morálneho kompasu?