🐱 にゃんにゃん探偵団 🕵️‍♀ Kitty Detectives 2 Home Thread!

[Rowena]

Just in case the description of my new methodology for tackling native material is helpful to someone else in this group, here’s an edited exerpt from my study log:

@Rowena

I have devised a new way of doing my native reading material studies :

1. Type out the whole 2-page spread word for word, allowing the IME to insert kanji where the book has none. This removes a lot of ambiguity and makes me realise I can actually read much of it.
2. Copy and paste the whole lot into Google translate and see how badly mangled it is - so far, not too bad, but there is always some weirdness (usually 'cos it’s Google translate , sometimes b’se I selected the wrong kanji suggestion from the IME). This generally just gives me the added confidence that I am on the right track.
3. Now that I have it typed, it is easy to copy and paste unknown bits into Jisho / ichi.moe for further clarification/anaylsis. These bits get highlighted and defined as before.
4. Type out a reasonable transliteration/translation below each line of typed Japanese text. This last step has really pushed me to do a better job of coming to grips with the grammar.

See you tomorrow for our 3rd case!