Beginner Stories (A1) in Japanese
Start reading Japanese with our beginner stories. At the A1 level most of the page is hiragana and katakana, with only the simplest kanji showing up, always next to a furigana reading so nothing catches you off guard. Tap any character for its reading and meaning, and send it straight to your review. Reread it once and the shapes start to feel less foreign.
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A free Japanese A1 story: one-inch Issun-boshi sails to the capital in a bowl and faces an ogre.
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A free Japanese A1 story: mountain-strong Kintaro wrestles a bear and starts on the road to the capital.
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A free Japanese A1 story: a tiny girl from a bamboo stalk becomes Princess Kaguya โ and returns to the moon.
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A free Japanese A1 story: Urashima Taro rides a turtle to the Dragon Palace and receives a mysterious box.
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A free Japanese A1 story: Momotaro shares millet dumplings with friends and sets out for Onigashima.
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A free Japanese A1 story: Goldilocks wanders into the three bearsโ house and tries the porridge, chairs, and beds.
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A free Japanese A1 story: three pigs build houses of straw, wood, and brick as a wolf huffs and puffs.
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A free Japanese A1 story: Little Red carries food to grandma and meets a wolf in the woods.