The Jellyfish & the Monkey
A Japanese Tale
$0.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Read the classic Japanese tale "くらげのお使い" side by side in Japanese and English.
Improve your Japanese reading with the classic folk tale 'The Jellyfish and the Monkey' (くらげ骨なし). This app gives you a side-by-side bilingual reading experience — natural Japanese with its English translation, sentence by sentence.
Follow the story of why the jellyfish has no bones — a clever monkey outwits the Dragon King under the sea. With built-in vocabulary lookups, audio, and furigana-style readings, it's a perfect way to practise reading Japanese while enjoying a timeless tale.
Part of a growing collection of Japanese folk tales, drawn from the classic Gutenberg edition of Ozaki's 'Japanese Fairy Tales'.
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Added the full bilingual story: read it in the original language with a sentence-by-sentence English translation, tap-to-define vocabulary, and audio.
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Information
- Seller
- Jeffrey Dick
- Size
- 1.3 GB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.2 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.2 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jeffrey Dick
