Ari to Kirigirisu is a Japanese Graded Reader (JGR) designed for beginners. The story utilizes a vocabulary of about 350 words and doesn't require any knowledge of kanji. As long as you know basic hiragana, it’s only a matter of time before you’ll be moving on up to the more advanced levels. The grammar points include: ~desu, ~masu, present tense, past tense, question form, etc.

Graded readers in this series are written in easy and controlled language for foreign or second language learners of Japanese. Each of the pages features an audio track that you can listen to as you follow along with the text.

When you have completed the story, you can review the vocabulary you have learned with interactive flashcards. Study the words in order, shuffle them and show or hide the furigana readings to further test your learning.