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Attention all current or potential kanji learners!

I have just posted an extensive, updated guide for how to use the KLC to learn kanji through extensive reading.

This guide updates and unifies the instructions across all components of the KLC series. In particular, it overhauls the instructions to reorganize your learning process around extensive reading of N+1 comprehensible input, using the KLC Graded Reading Sets.

This revised approach is grounded in the contemporary scholarship on...

To thank you for being a reader of this blog, I have put together some concrete tips that I think will contribute real value to your learning process. I will be writing blogs with more in-depth information on why you should learn Japanese through “comprehensible input”, and how best to do so, but for now this post will summarize some of the key points. This information is especially relevant for users of the KLC Graded Reading Sets series, because the series is designed specifically to help you ...

I hope everyone is hanging in there.  I write today to share some research-based tips on how to optimize your learning, plus a couple of KLC Graded Reading Sets sales that I will be running for the next few days.

KLC Graded Reading Sets Volume 5 (kanji 701-1000) will be 20% off through Tuesday, July 21 Hawaii time. Happy middle of summer!

Sincere thanks to the many people who have requested paperback versions of the GR...

こんにちは！I hope your summer is off to a good start.

Volume 9 is done!

I am pleased to announce that I have released the FINAL volume of the KLC Graded Reading Sets, Volume 9. Please take advantage of this Opening Day Sale (30%), which will expire at the end of Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Hawaii time.

Volume 9 consists of 5,338 exercises covering KLC kanji 1901-2300. In all, it contains over 66,368 kanji—more than a quarter of the kanji in the entire series. At the sale price of 6.99 USD, that’s 95 ins...

こんにちは！I hope your summer is off to a good start.

Volume 9 is done!

I am pleased to announce that I have released the FINAL volume of the KLC Graded Reading Sets, Volume 9. Please take advantage of this Opening Day Sale (30%), which will expire at the end of Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Hawaii time.

Volume 9 consists of 5,338 exercises covering KLC kanji 1901-2300. In all, it contains over 66,368 kanji—more than a quarter of the kanji in the entire series. At the sale price of 6.99 USD, that’s 95 ins...

こんにちは！I hope your summer is off to a good start.

Volume 9 is done!

I am pleased to announce that I have released the FINAL volume of the KLC Graded Reading Sets, Volume 9. Please take advantage of this Opening Day Sale (30%), which will expire at the end of Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Hawaii time.

Volume 9 consists of 5,338 exercises covering KLC kanji 1901-2300. In all, it contains over 66,368 kanji—more than a quarter of the kanji in the entire series. At the sale price of 6.99 USD, that’s 95 ins...

First paperback release
I hope everyone is doing OK. I am writing to announce that I have released the first paperback of the KLC Graded Reading Sets, for Volume 1. It took many iterations, but I’m very pleased with how it came out.

Please take advantage of this Opening Weekend Sale, which will expire at the end of Monday, Hawaii time. If you already bought the Vol 1 paperback before reading this, you got the sale price.

This time the discount is an odd 22.5% off the planned regular price....

I hope everyone is doing OK. Just sending a heads-up that I posted new GRS series edits at the bottom of the Revisions log page. These new corrections have not yet been pushed to Kindle devices, because Kindle requires a cumbersome application process to make this happen. Apple Books users who have automatic updates enabled should see these items updated relatively soon. All new downloads include the corrected items.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed edits. Stay well!

Please enjoy this classic Japanese song from 1961, 上(うえ)　を　向(む)いて　歩(ある)こう. You can follow most of the kanji if youve reached entry 679, even better if youve reached 1020. I put the lyrics below and the KLC entry numbers at the bottom for kanji after entry 50 or so. At 0:46 the video shows 春(はる), but it should be 夏(なつ). English translation and grammar notes: thoughtco.com/ue-o-muite-arukou-by-ky...

上(うえ)　を　向(む)いて　歩(ある)こう
涙(なみだ)　が　溢(こぼ)れない　よう　に
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Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is hanging in there. I send my heartfelt thanks to anyone out there who is working in medical care, medical research, or any one of the many front-line and other essential jobs that are keeping us alive through this.

I feel especially humble not to be contributing through such a job at this time. Yet we all must do our small part. For a few weeks now I have owed KLC users a release of Volume 8 of the Graded Reading Sets, which was due out last month. With...