Graded readers
Pick a language. Then pick a story at your reading level.
Famous stories, your level
A graded reader is a famous story rewritten so you can actually finish it. Short sentences. How they work. A1, then A2, then B1.
Pick a language below — English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, both Chineses. These are Yak Yacker retellings, not a bookshop of other people’s paperbacks.
The job is to finish one story, not collect a pile.
Libraries and roundups
How to use graded readers
Read a little above your level. Repeat. Don’t panic.
English graded readers
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Oz, Jane Eyre.
Spanish graded readers
Including Don Quixote, rewritten for your level.
French graded readers
Famous stories, shorter sentences.
German graded readers
A1 to B1, in German you can finish.
Japanese graded readers
Stories at a level you can actually read.
Traditional Chinese graded readers
TOCFL-friendly reading, rewritten by us.
Simplified Chinese graded readers
Including Mulan, at A1–B1.
Best graded readers for English
A roundup, including ours and other people’s.
Best graded readers for Spanish
What we’d actually hand someone.
Best graded readers for French
The useful pile, not the whole shop.
Best graded readers for German
Readable German, on purpose.
Best graded readers for Japanese
Stories that don’t assume you’re already fluent.
Best Traditional Chinese graded readers
A short list, not a warehouse.
Best Simplified Chinese graded readers
Start here if you want a book you can finish.
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