These Tools Will Make You BETTER AT READING JAPANESE!

In this video I offer up 5 tools to get better at reading Japanese, as well as some tips to get better at reading Japanese. Do you want to level up your Japanese reading ability? Well then the tools in this video can probably help you. Learning to read Japanese can be a stressful experience, but with technology and the many modern tools at your fingertips, that stress can be relieved to some extent. My hope is that these tools can help you improve your Japanese reading skills today!

0:00 Intro
0:34 Genki
1:41 Graded Reader PDF
3:53 Satori Reader
7:28 Example approaches to Satori Reader content
9:32 Kindle
11:39 Manga

ToKini Andy OUTGREW PATREON.

[TomKilworth]

Great sponsor! I can attest to Satori Reader’s brilliance as it’s responsible for the most progress I’ve made. It’s almost perfect

[megajunior]

If only Satori Reader had a lifetime subscription option like Wanikani.

[hey-fvgg]

This video made me a little curious about how hard reading in Japanese is.
You often said “it is a little bit challenging for my level”, even when referring to Kiki, and I don’t know if u were being humble or if it really is still challenging?
Like, I developed my reading skills in English basically through extensive reading. I never had the patience to look up every single word and I just kept going until I was eventually able to understand it. I know it doesn’t seem the best method, but it did work.
I would say that I am around C2 or C1 in English now, I attend an American university and most of what I read is in English, honestly I don’t have much problem to read anything at college level, being it scientific research, philosophy books, poetry etc. Although it is not on par with my native language, it is definitely not too far behind it
That being said, I expected that someone with n2 or n1 would be able to do the same in Japanese? Considering that n2 is usually the threshold to get into a Japanese university, I thought that it would allow you to understand native content without major troubles, seeing someone who has a n1 saying that something like Kiki is still challenging (even if a little) is really daunting to me. I can’t even imagine how long it will take before I can enjoy a Japanese book without struggling lmaoo

[bouldersurban]

Good job! 👍👌🏼. Nice providing the advices, tools and links.

[lordfire]

Hello Andy!! You’re absolutely amazing!!

[emanuelheard]

Thank You So Much 😊. I recently finished 壁の穴. So now I’m am reading a lot of news articles and wondering which big article to read next. I am so thankful for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Discount.

I didn’t reach my goal of fluency by the end of the year but I most definitely made exponential progress and I’m pretty confident I can smash the N3 right now. In retrospect tho I would pick up hiragana and katakana with Japanesepod101 and get exposure 3-5 to basic Kanji and radicals a day. Quickly find a teacher and or Japanese friend and talk a lot more. Get the GENKI series watch your channel to cross reference. Once I got through the GENKI series read Satori Reader as much as a teenager checks social media. I would absolutely journal morning and night. And over all just get exposed to Japanese media especially My Hero Academia.

[KyushuTrail]

Nice! I really enjoyed reading the Moomin series in Japanese a few years ago. Around elementary school level. Great video and congrats on the first sponsorship!

[afarchangel]

Great video! I watched your last one and meant to sign up and got distracted. Kinda glad I did; going to sign up now. Hopefully I’ll see you on the stream tomorrow!

All the content you’ve put out is super helpful; thanks so much for putting in the effort to help us all!

[mr.sushi]

its not the best way but I've been getting a lot of exposure watching shows in Japanese with Japanese subtitles. it seems to be helping me.

[darrylcantre]

アンヂイさん、please share with me the graded reader PDF link, please. I'm afraid its not on the description anymore.

[jahayrac]

It's like you're in my brain organizing all my thoughts for me 😅 lol

I've been thinking about using all these resources (we practically have all the same resources including the Graded Readers! Lol) but I wasn't sure what to utilize first, what to would be the most useful for me and my level, how etc. Because I've gone through Genki 1-2 already I've thought about using the back of them for extensive reading since I have read some of them before and I know they're at a good level for me. But I've also really wanted to get into more intensive reading using my kindle and use your video for getting vocab/ sentence mining jp books. I almost don't care if I struggle reading it there are some books I really wanna read! 😁 but your thoughts on how to get through them without getting to overwhelmed is very helpful and sound advice.

I also appreciate the breakdown on how to approach reading and the steps to try to really get the most out of each resource. The fact that you mentioned having a resource for extensive and one intensive helps me to feel like I'm right on track. I've been using one source "intensively" due to interest (a jp text chat visual novel game). It can be challenging to read through and not get far. But in short doses, and being able to bring my questions to my exchange partner, every discovery has been so fun. ^_^

This puts everything into perspective, Andy! Thank you soooo much!

[wannaknit]

I'm going to try Satori Reader for three months and see if I use it, it seems good. By the way, I have the first Yatsoba book and couldn't stand it, she just seems like a total brat and her father an incredibly neglectful parent, but I appreciate I am in the minority as everyone seems to love her!

[daily_jham]

i can't find the link for the graded reader pdf 😭

[rno]

We are prompted a “page not found”
Thanks again

[akutaen]

In your opinion, when should you start Satori Reader? I'm currently working on the first Genki book and I think all of the stories are currently too difficult for me.

[ValeriaTiourina]

andy you're the best!!!! I've been following your Genki lessons and was already regretting buying the Genki book itself because your lessons are so much better for me (and I love the conversation bits - I've been using them as "comprehensible input" and trying to guess what it means before you translate it and go through it). I was missing the reading component a lot from the textbook, but now I'm excited to go in the back and find it in the back :o

[ValeriaTiourina]

Also, thanks for the heads up about Satori Reader's discount.... I reading things that are right around my level and it sounds incredible for that. Also because I'm really lazy to make my own Anki review decks lol. Definitely going to give them a try.

[g-gi]

When is the Anki tutorial coming out? I really could use your help :D

[onetwo]

Andy senpai, hello! Do you think it is worth to learn kanji by breaking them down to pieces? What is your experience with kanji? Really wanna just start writing them down, but it's not that simple if you aren't usually satisfied with the way they looks on paper. And I feel like this is the reason why instead of 20 kanji I can learn 10 at max.

[OutcastYBJ]

It’s not that I don’t know how to read in Japanese I just read Japanese really slowly i just stopped using rōmaji and it’s a lot harder to read now