Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Japanese Stories)

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Learning katakana is about the same as learning hiragana, with a few Shyamalanian twists. We have yet another mnemonic-based guide for you, and chances are you'll be able to read katakana within the next few days if you're willing to put in the work. Finally, while I think it can be great to push yourself to complete something you're interested in, and really gratifying once you finish it, if you want to follow these guidelines then reading shouldn't be an extremely taxing activity for you. Instead, it's best to read things that are suited to your level, that allow you to relax and read comfortably without feeling the urge to look up every other word. Our Recommendations LingQ makes it easier for you to read Japanese by allowing you to look up new words and phrases using text-to-speech, save, and review them to grow your vocabulary. You can also store all your content into LingQ making it easier to navigate through your favorite stories and save you time. LingQ is the best way to learn Japanese online because it lets you learn from content you enjoy! Although Slam Dunk has furigana to accompany all kanji, there will be some parts of the manga that will be difficult for beginner readers to comprehend. This is mainly to do with its sports-themed plot, so make sure to warm up on your basketball terminology (or have a dictionary handy). You can import the text into LingQ, however be aware that because the translations are written alongside the text, you may get some English words thrown into the lesson as well. Just ignore them (or you can manual delete them) and focus on the new Japanese words as you normally would.

Just keep in mind that because of this, some steps may seem counterintuitive. They may even seem slow compared to other methods, but everything has been carefully selected to get you to the finish line faster and more efficiently. We'll talk more about that later. You need to be able to record and store these words so that you can study them later. You also need a good system to handle and process these words. It's a waste if you record them once and never look at them again. Slam Dunk” by Takehiko Inoue is a classic basketball-themed manga, where delinquent and gang-member Hanamichi Sakuragi winds up joining his high school basketball team to catch the eye of a girl. This app is great if you already have a decent handle on reading easy Japanese, and perfect to challenge yourself by reading stories in their original format with no translations or guidance.

Themes include war, leukemia and hope around the making of a thousand paper cranes. Sadako’s story is very famous in Japan and is often referenced in mainstream media. Just take a look at the wide variety of authentic video content available in the program. Here’s a small sample:

University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative– a huge library of Japanese texts online, and you can even choose to read with furigana Ameblo – a Japanese personal blogging platform similar to Blogspot or Livejournal. You can browse blogs and articles by topic. In general, though, I’d recommend only children’s manga for beginners. It will be simple enough to read yet difficult enough to make you struggle (and learn). You’ll also get images to help with context, which will help you to understand more how the words and grammar are working together to form Japanese. This collection is perfect for Japanese learners who have an interest in ghosts and the paranormal. 7. “Ichiyo Higuchi Complete Works” by Ichiyo Higuchi Warning: the story of “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” by Sasaki Masahiro is sad if not downright heartbreaking (I went through a thousand paper tissues reading it).When I say "learn kanji" I mean learn the kanji’s most important (English) meaning(s), and their most important (Japanese) reading(s). As you know from reading about on'yomi and kun'yomi, some kanji have a lot of readings. And, unfortunately, English meanings are just translations and can't always match the Japanese meaning one-to-one. That means there can be many correct English meanings for a single kanji that you'll need to deal with. We'll narrow those down so you only learn the most important meanings and readings first—the ones used 80-90% of the time. The remaining meanings and readings will come via vocabulary and other practice.