Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

anyone know where i can find some japanese text for kids, i mean like the kind of text a japanese 1st grader could read for practice?

it's just that when i was learning english i started by reading children's books and that help me a lot