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Japanese Graded Readers for Japanese Learners: Level 0 | Starter

Japanese Graded Readers

About This Page

This page is for those who are at the starter level in Japanese. Each book comes with approximately 400 characters using a vocabulary of around 350 words. These books use predominantly です and ます verb endings and are printed from left to right instead of top to bottom for starting beginners. Try to look carefully at the pictures and illustrators so the story will become self-evident. 

What You Learn

Grammar / 文法

present form, past form, interrogative, ~たい, etc.
※ です and ます verb endings.

 

Multiple Stories

Single Stories

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