Great news for all novice Japanese learners out there. The Japanese Graded Readers series has come out with a special beginner level product - “ Level 0" - which doesn’t require any knowledge of Kanji! As long as you know basic hiragana, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll be moving on up to the more advanced levels.

 

Japanese Graded Readers Level 0 is designed for newcomers. The set of stories utilizes a vocabulary of about 350 words. The grammar points include: ~desu, ~masu, present tense, past tense, question form, etc.

 

The stories are beautifully illustrated, and furigana (small kana written above kanji to show the pronunciation) are included on all the kanji.