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Original stories · Japanese with English

やさしい名作 A2Easy Classics A2

Famous novels and short stories, retold whole in easy Japanese. Free to read in the browser, each with the English beside every paragraph.

About the series

The great stories everyone has heard of, retold in easy Japanese with a translation beside every paragraph: a detective, a monster on the moor, a treasure map, a journey around the world, and the best-known short stories too. Each book is the whole story: every scene, every character and the real ending.

The Japanese is at A2: common words that come back again and again, short sentences, and the everyday past tense. You can read a real novel from the first page to the last with the Japanese you already have.

Some books are short stories you can finish in one sitting; others are full novels in many chapters. Every chapter ends where you want to know what happens next.

A2 stories