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(I’m not associated with White Rabbit Press they just have the cheapest price for these graded readers at the moment.)Īs I first encountered these as an intermediate learner after doing extensive reading for a few months, I don’t have any personal experience as to what it would be like to use them as a beginner or without experience with extensive reading, although I can make an educated guess based on my own experiences with learning the language and extensive reading and on watching other people read some of them.New to Japanese? New to the sub? Read the Wiki! There are three volumes of level 2 graded readers available: Level 2, Volume 1, Level 2, Volume 2 and Level 2, Volume 3. So if you read that and it seems extremely easy, go with level 2.
JAPANESE GRADED READERS LEVEL 1 VOLUME 1 FULL
There is also a full sample of a Level 1 story available on the Japanese Graded Readers Research Group’s website: 船 (The Boat). In one of the level 0 books, お茶碗 (rice bowl or teacup) is introduced by illustrations of the characters literally shoving an お茶碗 in the readers’ face five times, so I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw it appear in a later book.Īs with the others, there are one-page samples from four of the stories online, as well as a CD that comes with each volume.
They also make use of words that were introduced and repeated in previous volumes. There’s enough context there that a reader who didn’t know 枝 could guess that it means “branch,” but if that guess is then put together with the picture, then the connection between 枝 and “branch” is solidified.
For example, in 絵姿奥さん, there’s a line about how the man hangs his wife’s picture on a branch, and although there’s already an illustration of something else on the page, they add a little picture of the action. These, especially the last two stories, felt more like actual books that Japanese kids might read, but they’re simplified in a way that didn’t feel condescending and still made good use of illustrations to aid comprehension. (That’s assuming you get them from White Rabbit Press see my introduction for more.) There are five 22 or 23 page stories in this volume, so, as with level 1, each story works out to about $7.40. The full set has about the same number of pages as Level 1, Volume 1, but about twice the number of words. There’s five stories in all, and again, although they’re the same length in terms of pages, their word count gets progressively longer, from 絵姿奥さん (The Wife’s Picture), which is 450 words, to 一休さん (Ikkyū-san) which is 800 words. There are three volumes of these, with five stories each.ĭue to the wider variety of grammatical structures, these Level 2 graded readers start to feel more like authentic picture books, albeit very easy ones with more advanced stories than you might find in picture books of comparable difficulty. They’re suitable for people studying for the old JLPT levels 4 and 3 (new levels 5 and 4). Level 2, 初級後半 (Second half of the beginner level): The amount of words used jumps to 500, more grammar structures are introduced and the number of characters per reader goes from 1,500-2,500 (450-800 words).
JAPANESE GRADED READERS LEVEL 1 VOLUME 1 SERIES
Click here for my introduction to the よむよむ文庫 series and information about graded readers.
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