Looking for reading recommendations for JLPT 3-5

Japanese
#1

Anyone have any favorites they can recommend? Something I can buy from Amazon hopefully.

#2

The tadoku series!
Can’t recommend it enough for people starting out.

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#3

Oh those look good. Thank you

#4

  1. The problem with Tadoku is that it gets pretty boring. I suggest looking at their free ebooks first (https://tadoku.org/japanese/en/free-books-en/)

  2. Definitely check out Satori Reader (https://www.satorireader.com/) - there are 2 great things about it that you won’t get with paper books:

  • it has audio for all books (and good one too)
  • each word can be clicked to see the translation and also some notes on the particular form / use in the given sentence

  1. Yotsuba is often suggested as a good starting manga and I very much agree. I actually enjoyed the characters and the plot which I think is very important because otherwise it’s very easy to get bored and tired when you start reading in a foreign language.

  2. Crystal Hunters is a manga made specifically for japanese learners and a lot of people swear by it. I haven’t read it though, so can’t really comment on that.

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#5

Awesome thank you. I’ll check those out.

#6

Natively has a really good database of books/shows that can be sorted by levels, and there’s also themed lists.

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#7

Basically all of these are my recommendations, too, so seconding all this.

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