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Short Stories for Japanese Learners (You Can Read Japanese Level2, The Red Candle): Beginner-Friendly Fun and Engaging Stories to Expand Your Vocabulary and Kanji Knowledge!
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[DeepL Translation - needs review] From our readers:. "I feel this is the sort of resource I have always wanted!" "Having the furigana above the kanji hit a really strong point." "As a beginner, this approach appealed to me more as a reader and made learning more engaging." Japanese Language Park offers graded readers in Japanese from level 1 to level 5. Start reading from the level that suits you best. You Can Read Japanese! series helps you by guiding you through fun, engaging stories on y...
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(4.92/5)A Good Step Up in Difficulty from Level 1
Very similar to the 2 Level 1 books, just at a higher difficulty. If you started with the level one books, I recommend continuing with this one. It reuses vocab from that series, and is a very similar style, just at the N4 difficulty.
Summary A collection of ten very short stories at what the author calls a pre-intermediate level:
Suitable for learners who can understand basic phrases and language structure in addition to reading slightly longer sentences.
I got this on Audible, so the text is a PDF that came as a supplement to the audio. Judging from the Amazon book preview, though, I think both versions present the content for every story in the same way:
- In Japanese with furigana
- Vocab list with romaji and
Very good book for beginners
I think this is a great entry to reading your first stories in Japanese. I personally found the stories more interesting than in other books on this level. Also it is written in a more natural way than other stories for beginners. I honestly did not care too much about the questions and just read the stories. So if you are around N4 level, then this book should be pretty easy to read.
The best series for beginners
Short, sweet, easy to understand stories that really boost your confidence in reading as an absolute beginner. My review will be the same for all of the books in this series because they were just incredibly useful. It's been a while since I've read them and they wouldn't really be useful to me anymore, but I still remember how fulfilled I felt after finishing them.