Reading (JLPT N5)

20 passages · 2,729 characters · CC BY-SA 4.0 · EN

Everything else on the site teaches a piece: a kana, a kanji, a pattern, a word. This is where the pieces meet. Twenty passages, written for this site, that get longer and denser from a 65-character self-introduction to a 200-character diary entry — and that use only the 80 N5 kanji taught in Level C, the grammar of Level D, and mostly the 600 N5 words. Anything a Japanese adult would write with a harder kanji is in kana here, so nothing needs a dictionary.

Each passage is two printed pages: the text with furigana, the words worth knowing and four questions (three multiple choice, one to write); then the answers, the English, and the kanji the passage used. Read it twice, answer without looking back, then check.