Not entirely sure if I’ll be available for this week’s live reading. We’ll see what’s happening.
Maybe I can disappear from what I’ve got on. It starts three hours before the reading, so perhaps they’ll have stopped paying attention to me by the time the reading starts.
Hope I’m not intruding, but what is the entry level for these book clubs? I feel like a beginner, but the current book synopsis on rakutenkobo has many new kanji for me.
I see you are all halfway through it already, so I’ll skip this one. Is there perhaps a rough idea of when another book will be read (more geared to my level)?
Thanks for the link! I’m not very familiar with the wanikani forums yet. I’ll stick to practising my vocab and start tackling some Japanese grammar. I don’t even feel like I qualify for the absolute beginner books
The book clubs names are a bit odd because the Beginner club originally split off from what is now the Intermediate club - so it was definitely beginner in comparison! - and then the Absolute Beginner club was created to read even easier material aimed more at young children.
You can’t really start reading before you’ve learnt any grammar though. I’d also say that grammar is probably more crucial than vocabulary, as the latter is easy to look up.
So, Absolute Beginner is probably aimed at around N5 level learners, although native material does not align with JLPT material and thus you are always going to encounter unknown grammar. If you feel like you wouldn’t be able to manage that (note that they don’t read the material very fast, and of course you have all the help of your peers), I’d recommend checking out something like graded readers first, or things like assisted readers.
So, my school year is ending on Friday (tomorrow) and we were supposed to have a barbecue party with the teachers on Saturday afternoon (I’m finishing senior year of highschool). Turns out we moved it a bit earlier and I have to get there at 2020-05-30T08:00:00Z so I won’t be able to make it to the drama reading
Oh alright, I was gonna wait till the last week but the pressure is getting to me
People are clamouring so much that I can’t imagine we won’t have an offshoot club, so I’ll just ask whether people intend to take part
Are you planning to read volume 2 with the club?
Yes
Nope
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As for start dates - I’m assuming we want to leave a reasonable number of weeks because of issues with shipping right now? Combine that with the fact that those reading フルーツバスケット might want to get a couple of weeks in before adding something else on the side, and the 11th of July looks sensible…? Or perhaps the week after that, to give us 6 weeks from when these polls close.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
When do you want to start?
(I’m taking the “not a fan” option to be a vote for the 27th of June, unless you tell me otherwise by commenting)
11th July
18th July
Not a fan of either of those options (please comment)
0voters
Thank you
I think we should probably go for one thread per volume from the start though. Having a post to start the week off like we’re doing for Flying Witch works well, even if you have quite a number of comments per week, and the comments always peter out eventually such that it feels a bit silly doing weekly. I reckon just switch it up before that has a chance to happen.
In which case I’m happy to make the occasional threads themselves, if you want to do the weekly posts? Or is that just unnecessary faff? I just feel like I want to maintain some kind of connection to my nomination
I plan to focus more on the intermediate club books and the re-read of 魔法の宅急便 (along with watching some anime), so sadly I won’t be continuing with this one.
Commenting to say OMG YES HYPE! 11 July sounds reasonable enough. I’d rather start a bit sooner still, but then again I am a very impatient sort of person
I did consider including a much sooner option, but the thing is that if there are more eBook readers than physical book readers (which is most likely) they just naturally outnumber them on the voting, and it seems a bit unfair not to give people time to order
But maybe 6 weeks is way more than necessary in reality for stuff to actually ship…
Well, let’s say that the “not a fan” option is unofficially a vote for the 27th of June and see how we go.