Home Japanese Is there a Japanese news website that uses mostly the core 2k kanji that I can use to practice my comprehension?JJapaneseIs there a Japanese news website that uses mostly the core 2k kanji that I can use to practice my comprehension?October 12, 20227 comments I don’t feel like I am getting enough input or immersion with the language, so a good Japanese news website would help a lot. Tags:Japanese 7 commentsProbably NHK easy news.If you’re on iOS, Manabi Reader is a fun app that aggregates news and has built in kanji lookup so you don’t have to toggle your dictionary app.Otherwise https://www.nhk.or.jp/, https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/, https://news.yahoo.co.jp/. Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun are of course options but they have paywalls that you may or may not want.Edit because I forgot the obvious: r/newsokurThere is the NHK “News Web Easy”: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/This has news in simple Japanese for foreigners and elementary or middle school students.“a good Japanese news website would help a lot”I’ll save the sarcastic response this begs for and just say go to NHK.I think many news websites already doing that.Download the NHK app. It’s every day news, therefor every day words with the odd exceptionsThere’s a subreddit that scrapes NHK easy news. We used to do translation practice over there, but it’s been pretty dead for a whilehttps://www.reddit.com/r/NHKEasyNews/Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
If you’re on iOS, Manabi Reader is a fun app that aggregates news and has built in kanji lookup so you don’t have to toggle your dictionary app.Otherwise https://www.nhk.or.jp/, https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/, https://news.yahoo.co.jp/. Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun are of course options but they have paywalls that you may or may not want.Edit because I forgot the obvious: r/newsokur
There is the NHK “News Web Easy”: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/This has news in simple Japanese for foreigners and elementary or middle school students.
“a good Japanese news website would help a lot”I’ll save the sarcastic response this begs for and just say go to NHK.
There’s a subreddit that scrapes NHK easy news. We used to do translation practice over there, but it’s been pretty dead for a whilehttps://www.reddit.com/r/NHKEasyNews/
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Probably NHK easy news.
If you’re on iOS, Manabi Reader is a fun app that aggregates news and has built in kanji lookup so you don’t have to toggle your dictionary app.
Otherwise https://www.nhk.or.jp/, https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/, https://news.yahoo.co.jp/. Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun are of course options but they have paywalls that you may or may not want.
Edit because I forgot the obvious: r/newsokur
There is the NHK “News Web Easy”: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/
This has news in simple Japanese for foreigners and elementary or middle school students.
“a good Japanese news website would help a lot”
I’ll save the sarcastic response this begs for and just say go to NHK.
I think many news websites already doing that.
Download the NHK app. It’s every day news, therefor every day words with the odd exceptions
There’s a subreddit that scrapes NHK easy news. We used to do translation practice over there, but it’s been pretty dead for a while
https://www.reddit.com/r/NHKEasyNews/