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Our built-in features make reading and learning Japanese simple and efficient.

Easy Word Look Up

Yomu Yomu offers easy word look up and sentence translations to help learners understand the meaning of Japanese phrases as they read.

Kanji / Hiragana

As you learn Japanese, you may come across unfamiliar kanji. We give you the ability to switch from kanji to hiragana to support your language learning journey.

Romaji

Japanese phonetics can be difficult to memorize. Turn Romaji on or off to help you read and pronounce Japanese as you learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

Pitch Accent

Learning the proper pitch accent of words is essential to sounding like a native speaker. Yomu Yomu will guide you so that you can perfect your pitch accent.

Try it yourself!

Our teachers have curated the most commonly used Japanese
words to create engaging stories that keep you reading.

The Diary of a Cat 1: What is Home

Beginner I

In this short story based on the vocabulary of 250 words, we meet a stray cat who is learning to fend for itself. With no parents, home, or food, join this brave kitty as it learns about the joys and hardships of life on the streets, and the true meaning of home.

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The Human Chair

Elementary

Enter the eerie and unsettling world of a reclusive writer and her unexpected visitor, based on Edogawa Ranpo’s short story “The Human Chair”. When a mysterious letter arrives, a young author discovers a confession of crimes from a chair maker who claims to have an intangible connection to his work. Read our JLPT N4 level adaptation of this classic story that uses a vocabulary of 1500 words.