Looking for native material

Hi everyone,

As it's my first post here, I'm sorry in advance if this is not where this thread belongs. I've been studying Japanese for around 10 months now, and learning grammar is starting to drive me crazy haha. I really wanted to start reading some native material, but I'm not sure if I should/could at my current level.

Just to give you all an idea of where I stand, here are some of the things I did/am doing:
-Can read Hiragana and Katakana fairly easily
-Finished Pimsleur speak and understand Japanese I-III (many hours talking to myself in my car haha)
-Finished around 60% of Japanese Core 2000 Anki deck
-Finished Genki I+II
-Passive vocabulary of ~2000-2500 words?

I'm open to read any sort of media!

If any of you have some good reads for my current level, I'd greatly appreciate it!

Try NHK news easy. It has kanji with furigana, and the stories are quite short and have a audio file as well. You can also use the colour code which highlights proper nouns so you won't find yourself trying to look up the definition of someones name or place name. Ha.ha.
Good luck with your study.

It is much more important (imo) that you read something that you are actually interested in and that you care about. If newspaper news bore you, you won't get much out of it. On the contrary, a wikipedia article about physics may be quite difficult to understand for the average person, but if you're studying physics it's going to be quite easy *for you.* As for unknown kanji, use rikaichan (provides mouse-over dicrionary entries).

Thank you both for the replies, NHK news easy sounds like a good place for me to start, I'll go take a look at it! I left all my physics in high school, don't plan on bringing that into japanese haha! But I fully agree with you Blutorange. My retention rate for words relating to subjects I don't have a particular interest in (business, politics) is rather low.