Japanese.io: Read, Understand, Learn
Japanese.io is a free resource to improve your reading fluency in Japanese. After signing up with a Facebook or Google account, you are prompted to copy-paste a text into the website. I personally want to improve my ability to read the news, so I copy-paste news articles into the site. You could also paste in novels or short stories if you can find the Japanese text online.
Once you have pasted in the text, you can then choose to toggle on/off furigana mode. On clicking a word/kanji, an English translation comes up above the word for smooth reading.
Any word you click on will be saved into a word bank, where you can see clearly which words you have looked up the most, and remind yourself what they mean.
This site is awesome for intermediate learners. I have been using it for a while and have seen my reading fluency improve. I now also have the ability to see which words I frequently have to look up. Any consistent words that trip me up will be put into my Anki decks.
One thing I did notice whilst inputting daily news articles is how the news is fairly consistent, especially when particular stories are dominating for a few weeks at a time (Trump, North Korea etc.). This means that even if I learn specific vocabulary that is uncommon in daily life, I can read news articles at a faster pace as the vocabulary and phrases are re-used again and again.
You can access the japanese.io website here.
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