Simple Japanese website?

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Man, I like this forum!

Here I am again!
So I’m out of lessons, I’ve done all my reviews and read today’s grammar lesson already… I don’t know what to do and I don’t like to waste time… so I thought I would search some Japanese website to practice a little reading, but I don’t know any, and I don’t really want to pick a random one, what if it’s dodgy, and preferably it shouldn’t contain too many kanji (I’m still level 3!)

In summary: do you know any place where can I practice some hiragana (and simple kanji) reading?

Arigato!

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Have you tried NHK News Easy?

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nice one!!.. maybe too many kanji for a WK level 3, but I like it, thanks!!

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NHK Easy is great as suggested above. I use Japanese IO too (you can use your api data from WK to get tailored results too).

Also some great resources in this article.

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awesome!!

how do I do this?

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Well, there’s furigana on all kanji and clickable definitions for tougher words, but I guess you just mean that you would still need to look things up. You can also just listen to the article as well.

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yes, true… well, I just want to become fluent in reading, don’t really care about the meaning, not for now at least… but I’ve bookmarked that website for future readings :wink:

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I would reccomend https://www.satorireader.com/ . Its a paid site, but you can read the first chapter of each story for free and its designed by a great team with consistent updates. Kanji difficulty is completely customizable, and you can even import your wanikani api to determine what kanji you want to see/have furigana.

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I’ve been using this site, it has N5-N3 material minimal Kanji in the N5 stuff and you can hover over difficult/specialist words to see the meaning and even a small explanation of grammar, verb forms etc. It is basic but it’s free and there’s some cute dialogues complete with pictures so that you can infer what is going on even if you don’t know a certain word.

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all good resources so far, I’m trying all of them!!
c’mon, at this rate I’ll master Japanese in one month :sunglasses:

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Here are some free level 0 children’s books with audio to get you started:

Most have audio. I enjoy the animal ones. It is like your mother reading to you as a child.

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Satori Reader is way too difficult for a beginner. It’s tailor made for N4 to N2 Level learners.

@ollylove I suggest this website, which mostly uses Hiragana. You will probably find it useful till level 5 or so. . There’s also basic Kanji with Furigana attached to them (Furigana is the Hiragana reading of Kanji) to further help you along.

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In addition to the suggestions above, if you have a Switch you can play Pokemon Sword/Shield in kana only. You might not understand anything, but you’ll certainly get to practice, and may even pick up some vocab along the way.

Besides that, and others may disagree with me here, but you could start using Genki or Japanese for Busy People, etc. to kick start your studies.

Also - this video is a nice relaxing way to drill some of this into your head, while getting a nice insight into “conjugations”:

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it’s one of the paid plans unfortunately but there’s a ton of books/articles on there already for free :slight_smile: some without any kanji, like this one for example.

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