hey, I'm enrolled at a language school here in Kyoto but we basically have ZERO reading practice, in class, or materials to read at home. So I was wondering if someone could recommend a website with some easy reading? maybe short stories? I'm probably between JLPT 4 & 3, but that's just a guess. I'll be using rikaichan and furigana inserter so I don't care if 'some' of the vocabulary is new. I would actually prefer more kanji, but if it doesn't have much then that's fine. If anyone has any resources it would be a big help, thanks!

For learners:
http://www.coscom.co.jp/j-index.html

It gives furigana for every word:
http://mainichi.jp/feature/maisho/

FAIRY TALES - audio + script (2GB mp3 and growing)
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/0nen/0_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/1nen/1_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/2nen/2_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/3nen/3_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/4nen/4_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/5nen/5_sougou.htm
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/0_6/6nen/6_sougou.htm

Hiragana Times is pretty easy to read, too:
http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_mountain/HT/

thanks this will be really helpful!!

Very short (few minutes for a native reader) science fiction stories in natural contemporary language for adults (not in that sense, of course):

http://maezou.seesaa.net/

temporary Wrote:Very short (few minutes for a native reader) science fiction stories in natural contemporary language for adults (not in that sense, of course):

http://maezou.seesaa.net/

This seems interesting, but I can see it only for a few seconds, then it redirects into an another page. I have no idea if it's only my problem or not.

Jumpluff13 Wrote:

temporary Wrote:Very short (few minutes for a native reader) science fiction stories in natural contemporary language for adults (not in that sense, of course):

http://maezou.seesaa.net/

This seems interesting, but I can see it only for a few seconds, then it redirects into an another page. I have no idea if it's only my problem or not.

Yes, on my iPad it does that.

Also: Japanese Folk Tales. Pretty useful for beginners because of the per clause explanations.

Jumpluff13 Wrote:This seems interesting, but I can see it only for a few seconds, then it redirects into an another page. I have no idea if it's only my problem or not.

If you disable javascript in your browser you can stay on the page.

I've no idea if it's a problem with the page's HTML, or whether it's deliberate, or based on your location etc as I've no experience of web design, but at least this helps you get around the redirect.

There's song lyrics. Pair it with rikaichan and you'll learn lots

Search song title wit 歌詞は
I added the wa so you can filter out Chinese sites

maybe you could try this:

http://syosetu.com/
http://omoshiroi-hanashi.com/

Woodgar Wrote:I've no idea if it's a problem with the page's HTML, or whether it's deliberate, or based on your location etc as I've no experience of web design, but at least this helps you get around the redirect.

It works now, thank you .

There is also
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL219393C55CB6848D

I am afraid I haven't gone through the whole thing yet but it looks good.

Oh this was pretty scary.. .I was reading it last night.
【閲覧注意】過去に戻る方法を教えてくれ
http://chaos2ch.com/archives/3564775.html

Like this:

755 ：優しい名無しさん：2011/10/14(金) 01:06:38.83 ID:tJZVirS1

おまいら >>541 みたいなこと、まじでやめたほうがいい。

全部は揃ってないけど近い条件で「時間よ戻れ」みたいなこと念じてたら
まわりの空気が変わった感じがして、その直後、
なんか得体の知れない何者かがいるような気配がして恐ろしくなった。

もしかしたらその気配の主はこちらの様子をうかがってるのではという気がしたので
「やっぱり過去に戻るなんて考えるのはやめた。過去より未来だよな。」と
わざとらしく声にだしてみたところその気配が消えた。

幽霊なのか悪魔なのかわからないが、とりあえず得体の知れない気配が消えたんで
ほっとしてお茶でも飲んで落ち着こうと思って
別の部屋へ行って、何気なく時計を見たら5分か6分くらいだけどずれててびびった。

ちなみに、時間の逆流が起こった可能性のある問題の部屋に時計は2つあるんだが、
2つとも同じだけずれてたから2つの時計が
同時に同じだけずれるってのも変なんだよな。
怖いんで、今日のところは時計が2つとも壊れてたと思って寝ることにする。


ちなみに、条件のうち揃ってなかったのは3つ
・蝋燭1本を部屋の中央に置き、明かりをつける。　→蝋燭がなかった
・部屋は標高261ｍ以上でなければならない。 　→100ｍ以上足りなかった
・部屋に人工音が聞こえてはならない。　→時計があった

I don't think if people are lying or whatever but it's interesting and seems like it could happpppen and I definitely don't want to try myself.