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N5 graded Japanese story

風の日のたこ

Flying a Kite with the Wind

20 sentences · about 7 minutes

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Repeated concrete nouns and action verbs support a simple attempt-adjust-succeed sequence, while basic adjectives, て-form links, direction phrases, and comparisons provide manageable N5 practice.

Key words in context

電線でんせん
electric or overhead wire
向きむき
direction
糸いと
string
からまる
to become tangled
ほどく
to untangle or loosen

What to notice

  1. Sentence kite-02

    Choosing a place far from hazards

    道路と木と電線 lists roads, trees, and wires; から遠い describes a field far from all three.

  2. Sentence kite-07

    Stopping before fixing the problem

    止まって、いっしょに糸をほどきます uses て to connect stopping with untangling the string together.

  3. Sentence kite-17

    Describing change with なる

    風が同じ向きになって shows the wind settling into one direction; もっと高く adds the resulting change—the kite climbs higher.

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