Is it too late to join?
This book is in my “To Read” pile and fits my currently level within Learn Natively, so I figured I could give it a try!
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Any time is always good to join!!! And now you are lucky, you’re not even late, we just started week 1 with the first chapter 
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Week 2 is live! Chapter 2 and chapter 3 
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Week 3 is live! Chapter 4 and chapter 5
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Week 4 is live! Chapter 6 and chapter 7
If you want to join us late or are falling behind, this userscript can make your life easier to help you track your progress with the book club
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First name of a character Chapter 1 spoiler
Aah I thought that むらさき was a bit of a weird name, but now I know, she’s basically just called Violet 
(also I think it’s pretty funny that I can understand N3/N2 sentences but don’t know basic things such as the names of all colors or animals or household objects in Japanese 
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Huh? I thought むらさき was a man, have I had it wrong this whole time?!?
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Spoilers for Chapter 7
Yes? 
I mean I’m not 100% sure, but at least like 99% sure. Especially since in Chapter 7
she is described as making her entrance in front of the candidates wearing a long dress, and is eyeing the male fiance of one of the female course participants
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Bruh, I am so dumb 
I’m sorry my exclamation wasn’t aimed at you, just myself haha.
I totally thought the lady coming down the stairs was a different character, now I feel like I need to reread all the parts with her in it!!
Thank you for clearing that up haha
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Haha I’ve been there too and will again, no worries. Sometimes I do an image search on a search engine when it’s a new first name and I don’t know the gender, gives me an idea of the probable gender of a person. (then again sometimes you don’t know that you don’t know the gender)
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At least I am not alone - I thought she was a man too 
No wonder the part with the male fiance was so confusing for me. I never knew which part was said by which character
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Oops, then I’m glad this discussion cleared that up! (now I’m still waiting anxiously that someone comes along and says that nope I’m the one who got it wrong )
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Character from Chapter 1
Updated the table of proper names from “the manga teacher” to “the female manga teacher” in every thread and in the vocab sheet we should almost have a gender column
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Week 5 is live
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Week 6 is live
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I started the book 4 weeks late because of a trip and my success at catching up has been very meh so far (currently I’m halfways through chapter 3), but I have a question I hope someone can help me with:
I’ve heard people say that the dictionary is better on iOS but the one Bookwalker uses on my iPad is horrible. There’s a lot of words it doesn’t recognize at all, and if it does have something to say, it often links to a short description in Japanese that isn’t any more easy to understand than the word itself. Does anybody know if/how I can switch this to a good dictionary?
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I am not an IOS user so I can’t answer your question directly. What I saw on Android and the physical kindle: the dictionary often doesn’t recognize the word standing alone (e.g. verbs not in dictionary form), but when I mark a whole sentence for translation it works rather well.
Unfortunately, the iPad dictionary doesn’t work at all for whole sentences. I actually has the highest success rate when I just select a word stem, and the longer the selected text gets, the higher the chance that it draws a blank. It doesn’t know short phrases and idioms, either.
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Week 7 is live!
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Week 8 is live!
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