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Original stories · Japanese with English

Everyday Stories

Short Japanese stories about everyday life, told in the past. Free to read in the browser, each with the English beside every paragraph.

About the series

Short Japanese stories written for this library, each with a translation beside every paragraph. Everyday settings, a small mystery or a turn at the end, and a length you can finish in one sitting.

They are told in the past, in the everyday past tenses of spoken Japanese, the way people tell each other what happened.

The series is graded: the A2 stories keep to common words and short sentences, the B1 stories are longer, with more dialogue and a wider vocabulary.

A2 stories

B1 stories