Resources for Japanese Language Learners: Tadoku 多読
This guide introduces students learning Japanese, at undergrad and graduate levels, to resources at the library and online that will help them with their language study.
Welcome to "tadoku" 多読 classes at Penn! You can find out more information about this kind of class, also known as "extensive reading," from your Japanese language instructor. Many language classes pay a visit to our East Asia Seminar Room for some reading time in-class, and you can come to the library to use the tadoku books any time. Please make sure that you do not take the tadoku readers out of the Seminar Room! We also have other books to help you in your tadoku efforts that you can check out of the library. Plus, ebook versions of the readers are coming soon.
You can also check out reviews of some tadoku books by students at the Japanese language program page!
Extensive guide to tadoku resources, including some open access (OA) resources online. OA resources can be found in the Levels 0-5 ebooks pages; they are the items without ISBNs.
The web site for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Library includes listings and samples of tadoku books and magazines available in the library collection, sorted by reading difficulty.
This LibGuide describes the concept of graded reading, the books in the Japanese graded reader collection, and the location of the books withing the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, W.E.B Du Bois Library's East Asian Collection.
