NHK Easy with breakfast

2026-04-20

Since February I read one article from NHK News Web Easy every morning while eating. Usually takes 10-15 min, longer if it's about politics because the vocabulary is just different.

How I do it: read once without looking anything up, then read again with the furigana on and look up max 3 words. If I look up everything I never finish and it stops being fun. The 3 words sometimes go into Anki, sometimes not.

Honest results after ~2 months: reading speed is better, maybe 30% faster on similar articles. Listening to the audio version is still hard, they speak slow but my ear just isn't there.

Weather articles are the best for beginners btw. Same 50 words every time (気温, 雨, 予報, 注意...) and you feel like a genius.