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Graded readers where A2 is actually A2.

Short passages from A1 to B2. Every word is checked against the level before you see it. Tap any word for its meaning and grammar.

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A1A2B1B2Daily life

A bakery near the station

朝のパン屋

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食べたべ

食べるA1

verb

  • 食べstem
  • ましpolite
  • たpast

to eat

  • たeat; food

    on ショク · ジキ · kun く.う · く.らう · た.べる · は.む

    N5 · grade 2 · 9 strokes · freq 328

    食 eat·人 良

    names ぐい

  • iEvery passage checked against its level
  • iiFour levels, A1 to B2, a few short reads to place you
  • iiiNo account to start. Keep your shelf later.
01The check

A Japanese passage that failed the check.

Every word is checked against the level. If something is above the level, the passage is rewritten. In the reader, Why this is A2 shows what was kept out.

At A2, て-form and plain past are allowed. The check keeps out ている, conditionals, potential, causative, passive, relative clauses, and keigo.

Asked for “Write something easy for a beginner learning Japanese.”

駅前のパン屋で働いているている, relative clause田中さんは、毎朝五時に起きます。焼きたてのパンを買いに来るrelative clauseお客様がいらっしゃるkeigoと、「おはようございます」と言います。もし雨が降ったらconditional、お客様は少なくなります。

Above A2 in 4 places, across three sentences

田中さんは駅の前のパン屋で働きます。毎朝五時に起きて、パンを焼きます。八時に店を開けます。お客さんはパンを買って、「おはようございます」と言います。雨の日はお客さんが少ないです。

New words
13%, under the A2 limit of 20%
Grammar kept out
no ている, relative clauses, keigo, or conditionals
What slipped through
nothing
Reads exactly like it says it does
02Rate and move forward

Rate, and move forward.

Levels run from A1 through B2. A few short reads, each a little harder, set where you start. After each passage, say whether it was too easy, just right, or too hard. Three in a row move your level one step.

The shelf remembers the words you have seen, and the next passage is chosen from that. Once a day, one news passage from a real wire story is added at your level, checked like the rest.

A cliff of carved Japanese words, from everyday greetings at the top to older writing at the base.

朝のパン屋

A2

Your level holds. The next passage uses the words you just met.

Keep your shelf.

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