[ NOTE: Please enjoy the FREE Kindle version! ] With 30,000 exercises graded kanji-by-kanji, parallel English text, pronunciation guides, and extensive grammar support, the Kanji Learner’s Course Graded Reading Sets series is the most powerful Japanese reading comprehension tool available today. While its sequence follows that of Kodansha’s widely acclaimed Kanji Learner’s Course, the series is an irreplaceable resource even for those who have studied kanji by other methods. This Volume 1, covering the first 100 kanji in the course, consists of 1,028 exercises containing 4,000 kanji. The exercises for each entry contain only kanji previously introduced, and are designed to give you contextualized practice with reading kanji, kanji-based vocabulary, and a wide range of grammatical patterns. The Graded Reading Sets allow you to immediately apply each kanji you learn, and continuously review what you have already studied. Each exercise appears in three parallel forms: Japanese text, Japanese text with phonetic guides, and English equivalent. Phonetic guides indicate word division as an additional learning aid. To further accelerate your learning, this book introduces hundreds of key grammatical structures as they appear, with cross-references that allow you to quickly find in-depth information about any structure that may be unfamiliar to you. This contextualized grammar support allows you to master a wide range of sentence patterns through the natural process of reading and understanding. Each volume in the series is supported by several files accessible through the user-support website, including a comprehensive index of 640+ grammar glosses, and a cross-reference database allowing you to quickly locate the KLC entry of any of the 0.25 million kanji appearing in the series. Kindle's easy-to-activate bilingual dictionary allows you to look up any unfamiliar words with a couple of taps. Begin experiencing the pleasure of reading and understanding authentic Japanese, including an ever-expanding range of kanji, kanji-based words, and grammar patterns. By reading a large volume of material that you can understand, you will absorb grammar, vocabulary words, and subtleties of usage in the most natural and enjoyable way. In six years of "studying" Japanese, I can definitely say this is hands-down in my TOP 2 best Japanese study materials. Along with the author's previous book, The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course , which gets the #1 spot on my list, this is an absolute must. I can't say enough about the quality of these Graded Reading Sets , as it's obvious the author put a lot of time and effort into creating them. The example sentences provide a solid understanding of the actual kanji used in various contexts. Some kanji have up to 30 example items, and the examples the author used were also fantastic. The advantage compared to every other Japanese language study material is that you can actually see and understand the kanji in different forms, which greatly helps remembering them. I think this is best used side-by-side with the KKLC, but if you've already advanced quite well through the kanji, you'll still find this useful. - Alex Williams The main KLC textbook : To make the most of this Graded Reading Sets series, be sure to use it concurrently with the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course (keystojapanese.com/klc). - Supporting tools : To further support your studies with the kanji course, please take advantage of the accompanying writing practice workbook called the  KLC Green Book  (amzn.to/2dvKpFF), as well as the beautiful  KLC Wall Chart  (bit.ly/2gEV8kU).   - User support : For insights into learning Japanese, subscribe to my blog (keystojapanese.com/blog) and join the growing community of KLC users at Facebook.com/groups/klcusergroup.  - For kana learners : If you're working on mastering kana, please take full advantage of my  Kana Learner's Course  (wp.me/P7A3eU-1j) and my unpresuming  The Ultimate Kana Wall Chart: A Visual Guide to Japanese Phonetic Writing  (bit.ly/2hBYeq8).  - Connect  with me at asc349 [at] mail [dot] harvard [dot] edu. Sincere thanks for your interest, and best wishes for your studies. Andrew Scott Conning  earned a doctorate in human development as a Presidential Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Dissertation Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He previously earned a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University and a master's degree in social anthropology from Mexico's  Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia.  In East Asia, Andrew has been active as a research scholar at Peking University and the University of Tokyo.