Stories tuned to your textbook, your chapter, and the words you actually know — for learners at the N5 and N4 levels.
Tell us where you are. Tell us what you'd like to practice. Read.
Pick your textbook and the chapter you've reached. Yomimono uses that to know which words and grammar are fair game.
Tell us a grammar point you want to drill, a topic, a mood. Or don't — we'll surprise you with something at your level.
Stories arrive with adjustable furigana, tap-to-define vocabulary, and a difficulty that meets you exactly where you are.
Forty years of second-language research point to one stubborn finding: people learn to read a language by reading things they can almost understand. Krashen called it comprehensible input. Hu and Nation gave it a number — learners need to know around 95% of the words in a text for comprehension to hold, and closer to 98% to read without help. Below that, every unknown word becomes a wall, and reading stops being reading.
The Japanese tradition built on this idea is called tadoku, 多読 — read a lot, read what you can almost understand, don't translate. It works. The catch is that producing a steady supply of texts at exactly the right level for an individual learner — whether they're a few chapters into their first textbook or working toward N4 — has never been economically possible. Yomimono is what happens when it finally is. We create stories tuned to your textbook, your chapter, and the vocabulary you've actually picked up — so the friction goes down and learning begins.