29 docs tagged with "reading"

Aozora Bunko is Japan's free public-domain literature library. Learn what's in it, the old vs modern orthography variants, and how to read it in your browser.

Set up ASBPlayer to mine anime: capture the subtitle line, its audio, and a screenshot into an Anki card via AnkiConnect, with Yomitan doing the lookups.

Building a daily reading habit in Japanese: a 20-minute baseline, habit-stacking tactics, a content rotation, and how to survive reading plateaus.

Can you learn Japanese from children's books? Native 絵本 aren't graded, so they're often harder than beginners expect. Learn when they help and what to read.

Crystal Hunters is a manga written for Japanese learners, with controlled vocabulary, free guides, and a free Book 1. See how it works and what to read next.

Learn how to read hiragana faster by moving from sounding out each kana to whole-word recognition, with chunking drills and kana reading-speed milestones.

How reading builds Japanese ability: why it is the highest-leverage skill for vocabulary, grammar, and kanji, plus when to start and what to read.

Intensive vs. extensive reading in Japanese: why careful deep reading and high-volume tadoku train different skills, and how to balance both by JLPT level.

Japanese graded readers are books leveled for learners. Learn what they are, the 多読 movement, the main series, the Level 0–5 system, and how to pick yours.

Japanese reading speed milestones from N5 to native, in characters per minute, why the targets are approximate, and how to measure your own pace.

JLPT N1 reading explained: the question types, how to parse literary, editorial, and academic prose, and how to infer the author's intent and mood.

A JLPT N2 reading strategy by genre and question type: how to read news, editorials, and business texts, plus the new two-source integrated comprehension item.

Pass JLPT N3 reading with a per-passage time budget, a realistic reading-speed target, the skim-then-question method, and the N3 passage types explained.

Kindle for Japanese learners: set up an Amazon Japan account, use the built-in dictionary, see why mining moves to ttu-reader, and when Kindle still wins.

Manga for Japanese learners, sorted by difficulty. Learn the axes that make a title hard, get JLPT-leveled picks from N4 to N1, and read raw titles.

Mokuro runs OCR on Japanese manga so a popup dictionary like Yomitan can read it. Learn how to process a volume and turn raw manga into lookup-able pages.

NHK News Web Easy gives N4+ learners free simplified Japanese news with furigana and audio. Learn how it differs from regular NHK news and a daily routine.

Reading Japanese blogs takes you into unedited native writing. A guide to note, Hatena, and X long-form, the casual-formal register blend, and finding bloggers.

Reading Japanese light novels (ラノベ) is the stepping stone from manga to literary fiction. Why they're easier, how to choose one, and picks by genre.

Reading Japanese news beyond NHK Easy: decode headline grammar, compare Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, and build a daily routine with real newspapers.

Reading Japanese novels starts here: a difficulty-sorted path from easy modern fiction through pre-war classics, with author picks and the tools that help.

Reading Japanese social media means decoding feed conventions: www and 草 laughter, 顔文字, clipped slang, hashtags, and LINE chat patterns on X and Instagram.

Satori Reader review for N4+ learners: adaptive native-written readings, click-to-translate breakdowns, human audio, WaniKani sync, and who should wait.

The i+1 principle for reading: what comprehensible input means, how to find i+1 Japanese material at each JLPT level, and what to do when it is too hard.

Tadoku graded readers are the flagship 多読 series from NPO 多言語多読. Learn what's free vs. paid, the Level 0–5 to JLPT map, and how to download and start.

ttu-reader lets you read Japanese ebooks with Yomitan in your browser. Learn the EPUB upload flow, font and furigana setup, history tracking, and Anki mining.

When to look up a word vs. infer it while reading Japanese: a decision rule by reading mode, by whether the word blocks meaning, and the Yomitan middle ground.

Yomitan is the maintained successor to Yomichan. Install the pop-up dictionary, import JMdict and KANJIDIC, and add audio so you can read and look up instantly.

How to add Yomitan cards to Anki: install AnkiConnect, map the card fields to a deck and note type, then mine words with one click while you read.