Easy reading
Short pieces in Japanese. Furigana can be switched off, and tapping a sentence shows the English for that line only.
N5
A short piece about the shop you end up visiting every single day. Numbers and days of the week appear throughout.
The words on this page are the words on the signs. Good practice for the direction and time kanji.
What happens on the day you move in. The kanji for people and family show up here.
N4
The first thing that trips up almost everyone who moves to Japan. Days of the week and colours run through it.
One evening at a food stall in Fukuoka. The phrases here are the ones you use when you talk to the person cooking.
What to say when something hurts. The kanji for the body, and how to tell someone where the pain is.
How to read these
- First, read all the way through with the furigana on. Getting to the end without stopping is the point.
- Then tap only the sentences you could not read. The translations are hidden one by one on purpose, because when they are all on the page your eyes follow the English instead.
- Read it a second time with the furigana off. Rereading the same piece builds more than reading a new one.
Next step
Other languages
The same pages exist for every language here.