Hi,
did someone know the level of vocabulary for NHK Easy? I'm on the 1100 card of core 2k and do not feel confident starting (as quite struggling with the sentences) - do you suggest finish 2k and than trying to read some of these texts?

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I feel great that there is source like HNK Easy for simple texts with furigana but quite concerned that these tests as they are news have lot of political/bussines/financial vocab?

That's low vocab even for News Easy, but you should feel free to muscle through it and look up whatever you don't know. WHen I started, I actually used News Easy and 昔話 as a vocabulary source. I'd mine an article, study the vocab, and then read the article several time over a period of a few days.

New Easy will have some political topics, but it also has a lot of human interest pieces. Today's headline is on the Paris shootings, but other pieces on the front page are about the extension of the Shinkansen, a proclamation by Hello Kitty (of COURSE there's a story about キティちゃん)　to tourists in Koufu, the number of people in Japan with adult onset dementia, and the like.

You might try some bilingual sites.

These two are very easy:
http://www.coscom.co.jp/j-index.html
http://www.japanesepod101.com/

http://www.hiraganatimes.com/latest-issue/

http://hukumusume.com/douwa/English/index.html
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazi...yearFilter=

http://www.japancrush.com/
http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/e-news/

http://www.scola.org/Default.aspx

Big thanks