The Great Library
hen learning Japanese, reading often makes up the bulk of it. Needless to say, by reading a lot of different material, you can learn and pick up various new words and phrases. Learning words in context this way is useful since you can see the actual word ‘in action’.
I often come across many interesting reading articles on either the internet, magazines, my textbooks, news clippings etc. Here in The Great Chokochoko Library you’ll find articles I’ve collected over time (or written myself). Each article is either one or two pages long, written in a clear and easy to read format (easy levels feature big fonts) and includes a handy word list. The articles are arranged according to difficulty level and cover a range of different subjects such as culture, history, biology etc.
Be sure to check back often as the collection will grow and more reading articles will be added each time. All articles are ofcourse in high quality PDF and print-ready. Choose your difficulty level first, browse for your favorite article, then click to open or right-click to download.
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Do you like the articles? Or do you think the articles according to your reading level are too easy or too difficult? Found a typo? Let me hear your feedback and help me improve the quality. If you have a great article that you think has to be included in the collection, this is the place to shout out! Happy reading everybody!
Hello ^^
I`ve children storys graded by Japanese school classes from the 1st till the 6th class and would like to share them with the other readers.
So, if you like I could type them up and you could post them here.
Hi Ringonofureba! Sure ofcourse! I’m sure everybody would super appreciate it! You can send it to my email (see About page, bottom) and I’ll add convert them. Really appreciated! Thanks!
I had send you the e-mail with the first story one week ago. Hope you get it ^^
Hmm strange, I never received anything… What’s your email? I’ll send you a message so you can just reply then.
It’s: toshinoakaitako@googlemail.com
Do you have a document format you prefer, so I could send you them as an appendix in the e-mail and not typed in the e-mail itself?
This is really great… I’ve been looking for reading material geared towards my comprehension level. Reason being, I can read most of the vocab words in the N5. Actually, I study quite a bit outside the JLPT. The JLPT vocab isn’t all that practical for me. I’ve been learning by “grade level x JLPT”. This method seems to be working wonders. Now, these articles, can improve both my reading and writing ability. Though, I do wonder if children stories will be added.
-best of luck,
I’ll follow up on this event and check out the FB page.
I love having a nice library to turn to, when I need something short, that I can grab, and read on the go
Honestly, I think this was a great idea. I read all of the ones for N3, and one for N2 , ( 人類最初の文字 – 楔形文字), which seemed a little too easy, but it might just be me. I did have to look up 収穫 (harvest), which wasn’t included in the handy tango list, though.
This entire site is great, and I really hope you’ll continue to develop it. Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put in.
Thanks, glad you liked it! The feedback is appreciated so I can improve it. Yea, I scrapped 収穫 because this way, the tango lined up perfectly haha. And I thought it was a somewhat easy word. I’ll work on adding more challenging articles soon.
Great Idea!!! I SO badly need beginner and little kid level material to read. It’s terribly hard to find simple material to work on (the type that I can comprehend 80% or more as I read). This is fabulous.
The more elementary material the better!
Mark
Isn’t it?!
I’ll keep on adding more material including lots of ‘kiddie’ beginner material 
This is excellent, as per usual. Now I have more material to practice before the start of Intermediate next semester ^_^
Hey Jacki, how’re you doing? That’s great that you’re starting your intermediate semester upcoming semester. Where are you studying Japanese? And what kind of course is that? Well just click the N2 intermediate option for intermediate reading material
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Anyway, I’m having fun reading these, thanks!
I’m not remembering how I found your website. I was looking on internet to find some material to read japanese. But it’s pretty hard to find something not to childish or to difficult for a beginner like me.
I know only 55 kanji for the moment and I’m learning japanese since more two years.
I just read the beginner level about Goldfish. This text is very wonderful. ^^
This method is really good to help us to read in japanese without spending a lot of money.
Thanks a lot for your help!!
Thanks for visiting and hopefully you’ll be able to read the other texts soon as you progress! Ganbatte!
はい、がんばります！あなたも。
Thanks a lot for your quickly answer.
I read the text about “the room”. Because, first, I didn’t know the order of the text. I understand everything at the first reading. ^^
I’ll read all the others texts in the right order.
Thanks a lot for everything!!
Genki de ne.
De ha, mata ne. ^^
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hi!! i like a lot the articles..there are very usefull…please download more…if you have a web site that has every kind of article in japanese.. i would appreciate a lot..thanks…
I just came across this site, it is FANTASTIC! Thank you thank you thank you!!!