Having finally reached level 10 on WaniKani, I want to branch out in my Japanese learning. I’ve got some good Japanese basics. I can read the alphabets. I know some basic grammar. But my vocab is so trash I usually can’t read a single sentence without looking it up. But I’m conflicted because I’ve …

[image] Monatry: I found this floflo website which looks adorable, is it good for this sort of things? Or should I follow the Graded Readers approach of not using a dictionary? While I love floflo with all my heart and soul, I’m not sure anything on there will be easy enough for you, from wha…

Do you have any preferred grammar resources? Grammar textbooks are good about providing reading material for beginners, since it’s relatively difficult to find something that matches a beginner’s limited grammar and vocab knowledge. At the beginning of your studies, there’s a minimum number of words…

Hey, what’s up. I made Floflo. I think that grammar is the best place a beginner can invest his or her time. There’s really not a lot of it compared to vocabulary/kanji and, unlike with those two, its very difficult to look up using English resources (we got like… Jgram.org I guess?). While it’s p…

Satori Reader is a good resource for beginning reading, and it has several free articles and stories available. You can see a translation of each sentence as well as click on any word to see the individual definitions and grammar points, and you can also save words to study with a built-in SRS syste…

How you approach beginning reading largely depends on your interest, your patience, and the time you take outside of reading to enhance your ability to read. I will give my approach, but I forewarn, I am a very stubborn person, so my process is much slower to start in order to more quickly gain the…

In my experience, the toughest part is finding good reading material that is appropriate for your reading level. I’m a big supporter of graded readers as a fun way to get started with reading. They are designed to be easy to pick up and start reading right away, even if you have a limited vocabula…

Thanks everyone for all the great advice! You’ve given me a ton to work with. I’m going to try some of the recommended books, because they seem like I could manage them if I try hard enough. But I’m also going to follow Raionus’ advice of completing Tae Kim’s grammar guide. I’ve seen the book befor…

Tae Kim’s guide is good, but sometimes his explanations didn’t quite click for me. This is another free online grammar resource that I’ve found very helpful: https://pomax.github.io/nrGrammar/ It is a long read, but very detailed and helps to fill in some of the holes that can trip you up as you…

Great advice already . I will point a thing or two regarding my reading experience so far. I started with japanese about a year ago, so take that in mind. Initially while the ‘‘read what you are interested in’’ was the mindset I was going for, there isn’t much material to read with only some hund…

I’m in the exact same spot as you and had the same question wow. Glad you asked.

How to start reading as a beginner?

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has anybody linked duendecat yet? see also this thread.

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