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NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-11

Haven't seen this posted on the resource lists yet - is it new? Someone on Lang-8 just alerted me to its existence. It's explicitly a site for kids and foreigners in Japan (小中学生の皆さんや、日本に住んでいる外国人の方へ、わかりやすいことばでニュースを伝えるものです).

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/

It'd be great if you could turn off the furigana. Not gonna nitpick a great resource, though! Be warned that the audio seems like it's machine-read, so not a good resource for absorbing native speech. However, some of the news stories have associated video clips with an expanded version of the story read by a native reporter.

Not a substitute for attempting to read a FNN or 朝日新聞, but a great beginner and lower intermediate resource. I'm probably going to read it daily for a while to help increase my comprehension and reading speed.

-J-

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - danieldesu - 2012-06-11

Awesome, thanks! It's new to me at least

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - avelicu - 2012-06-12

Hey, awesome website, thanks for posting!

If you want to turn off furigana you can do so on any individual page there by pasting this into the address bar:

javascript:void(function(){var rubies = document.getElementsByTagName("rt"); for(var i=0; i<rubies.length; i++) rubies[i].innerHTML = '';}())

I tested in Chrome but should work in other browsers as well.
Note that for some reason when you paste that Chrome automatically removes the javascript: part. So check that the URL still starts with javascript: and add it if necessary, otherwise it will take you to a Google search.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - IceCream - 2012-06-12

wow, great find!!!

Aren't NHK awesome... Smile

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - einahpets - 2012-06-12

Thanks, that is a great find!

I don't enough furigana to get too annoyed...within the news stories themselves I don't see any furigana. I like how it gives simple Japanese definitions of the underlined words in the news stories.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-12

avelicu Wrote:If you want to turn off furigana you can do so on any individual page there by pasting this into the address bar:

javascript:void(function(){var rubies = document.getElementsByTagName("rt"); for(var i=0; i<rubies.length; i++) rubies[i].innerHTML = '';}())
Perfect! Thank you!! This makes it easier to copy/paste things into my sentence database.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - mlorenz - 2012-06-12

This is really a fantastic resource - thanks for posting it!

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-12

einahpets Wrote:Thanks, that is a great find!

I don't enough furigana to get too annoyed...within the news stories themselves I don't see any furigana. I like how it gives simple Japanese definitions of the underlined words in the news stories.
Yes, love the simple Japanese definitions. It helps for bootstrapping one's self into Japanese-only study. Brilliant site all around.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-12

gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:
avelicu Wrote:If you want to turn off furigana you can do so on any individual page there by pasting this into the address bar:

javascript:void(function(){var rubies = document.getElementsByTagName("rt"); for(var i=0; i<rubies.length; i++) rubies[i].innerHTML = '';}())
Perfect! Thank you!! This makes it easier to copy/paste things into my sentence database.
FYI, you can also define this as a Bookmark in Chrome, then just click the bookmark to remove furigana. Easier than pasting it into the address bar each time.

-J-

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - RawrPk - 2012-06-12

gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:
gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:
avelicu Wrote:If you want to turn off furigana you can do so on any individual page there by pasting this into the address bar:

javascript:void(function(){var rubies = document.getElementsByTagName("rt"); for(var i=0; i<rubies.length; i++) rubies[i].innerHTML = '';}())
Perfect! Thank you!! This makes it easier to copy/paste things into my sentence database.
FYI, you can also define this as a Bookmark in Chrome, then just click the bookmark to remove furigana. Easier than pasting it into the address bar each time.

-J-
An even easier way to get the article without the furigana is to click on the image which is located on the top right of the article.

[Image: btn_regularnews_normal.png]

It should open a new tab to a non furigana version (Example today's article without furigana)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20120612/k10015762871000.html

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-12

RawrPk Wrote:An even easier way to get the article without the furigana is to click on the image which is located on the top right of the article.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/img/btn_regularnews_normal.png

It should open a new tab to a non furigana version (Example today's article without furigana)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20120612/k10015762871000.html
They're not the same thing. That link is the original article for a general audience (一般のニューズ原稿). The article with furigana is a simplified version of that. Of course, it's worthwhile trying to read both. Smile At my level, however, I'm having a better time with the simplified article. I read that first, digest it, learn any missing vocabulary, and then attempt to tackle the original article.

-J-

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - Seamoby - 2012-06-13

Hah, buonaparte is way ahead of you. He posted this NHK Easy link in his audio and text links thread on May 22.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6840&page=12

That dude is great.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - Inny Jan - 2012-06-13

Seamoby Wrote:That dude is great.
+1

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - gaiaslastlaugh - 2012-06-13

Seamoby Wrote:Hah, buonaparte is way ahead of you. He posted this NHK Easy link in his audio and text links thread on May 22.

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=6840&page=12

That dude is great.
Ha! Back in 2010, no less. I'll shut up now. :-D

-J-

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - EratiK - 2015-07-12

Just browsing the site, and the audio player currently shows as a black box. Anybody else having this problem? I'm on Firefox 39. Also just recently updated Flash Player. It's probably Flash Player.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - buonaparte - 2015-07-12

The mp3 url is the same as the html url, just change html to mp3 and you'll be able to download the audio file.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10010144421000/k10010144421000.html
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/k10010144421000/k10010144421000.mp3

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - EratiK - 2015-07-12

That's weird something had disabled Flash Player. Not sure what happened because I didn't do anything in particular. Anyway I uninstalled, reinstalled, it's fine now.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - TheVinster - 2015-07-12

I have a semi-related question. As of last week I've been trying to study using news every day (FNN, not NHK Easy Web). I watch/listen to the videos for each article multiple times. Usually a dry run not looking at the text, then the text, then a mixture of all of them. Depending on the difficulty of the article I play the video multiple times. My final viewing is without looking at the text and if I'm comfortable with how I comprehended the audio one final time.

Has anyone focused heavily on studying using the news in this fashion, and did it work for comprehension? How long did it take to comfortably comprehend the news without the text? Of course sometimes it gets very specialized with its vocabulary which is when it's most difficult.

NHK Easy Web - simplified Japanese news Web site - RawrPk - 2015-07-12

Hmm I've never done that for news but do something similar for drama. I haven't done it for too long so I can't say how it is working out or not.

I also just recently found that there is a reddit page dedicated to translating NHK easy articles. Can't verify the accuracy though since I haven't rally looked through it

https://www.reddit.com/r/NHKEasyNews/