Japanese Graded Readers: Level 1

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Reading easy books that you don't need to try and translate (i.e., it's best to not push yourself with materials that are too difficult for your current level). Graded readers are books written for language learners. As in, they’re completely geared toward increasing language ability! How awesome is that? The wide-ranging themes of the 8 books are: Counting Things, Shiritori, Cats in Paintings, the Aesop fable of the Ant and Pigeon, 2 Ryo the Police Officer stories, famous Japanese folk tale The Water of Youth, and A Concert in the Forest. Through universal themes, these stories provide a great resource of foundation vocabulary, and they can be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. Graded readers have been proven to improve reading skills and encourage thinking skills in a target language. This is a perfect choice for Japanese beginners who are looking to dip their toes into Japanese reading for the first time. All of the stories in this volume follow a character named Hikoichi, a mischievous character who meets Japanese fantastical creatures and other figures from Japanese lore.

Keeping all this in mind can help you understand what makes a graded reader set good. It should have a wide range of books, across a number of different skill levels, so that you can find something that's not only suitable for your abilities, but pertains to your interests as well. And remember, your aim should not be to translate a book into English as you read, but rather to comprehend the story as it is in Japanese. This might be a little difficult to grasp for absolute beginners, but as you learn more of the language you'll encounter concepts that you can understand or express better in Japanese than in English, and you'll find your thoughts moving straight from the Japanese text to understanding, without having to make a detour into English. Instead of trying to artificially force Japanese into your head through boring textbooks and ineffective apps, Olly's StoryLearning® approach teaches you new words and structures in-context through the power of story.We dream of reaching new levels of fluency, flying high like an eagle and straight into foreign language nirvana. In their graded readers, they aim to use vocabulary that people at your level would know about 95% of, just to ensure that it's easy enough for you to read smoothly. I knew White Rabbit Press from their Kanji flashcards, but they also have a series of graded readers. Japanese Uncovered is a story-based language learning course created by British polyglot Olly Richards.

And FluentU has a learn mode which turns every video into a language learning lesson. You can always swipe left or right to see more examples. Still another is a digital reader that guides you to skillful Japanese reading comprehension by providing on-screen definitions, translations and furigana over kanji. This is an author famous for writing a book you might have heard of: 人間失格 (にんげんしっかく) — “No Longer Human.” This short story is much lighter in tone. A person sits at a subways station and waits for someone , perhaps for you. If you are looking to practice your Japanese reading skills at a beginner level in a fun and enjoyable way, then these books are perfect for you. LVL 1 stories (325pg). 46.7 MB https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ptkp3EoSpDwwXMp2Yiy6ILpxCT9wQrd/viewThis is also by Otsuichi, the horror author I just introduced. If you didn’t read him last time because you don’t like horror, the stories in this compilation should be more appetizing to you. They’re more bizarre than scary and many of them pull right on the heartstrings. Sakura Tadoku Lab is an online library of graded readers that offers books at eight different levels of difficulty. What this means is that with the added granularity, it's easier to find books suited more precisely to your level. The three graded readers are designed for beginners to practice and learn new vocabulary. So these might be good if you’re just starting out. Don’t feel limited to published Japanese graded readers. With some help from dictionaries and translators, you can turn any Japanese material into a reader. Here are some of the views of the students who have done tadoku reading for more than 6 months. Many found reading Japanese extremely difficult because of the three separate sets of writing system, but tadoku readers made it easier and easier.