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Resources
Vocabulary (google spreadsheet): The vocabulary list is created and maintained by all of us. Please contribute what you can! You can also use and edit this spreadsheet anonymously.
Romaji Desu: An online dictionary that allows you to lookup by romaji, even for conjugated verbs.
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Incredible, there’s already someone working on it this early!
I’d like to help with the spreadsheet, but I don’t really want to read the chapters beforehand or all at once; so I’ll just check the spreadsheet from time to time and add explanations or stuff that is missing.
To be honest, I’m not sure what vocab level we should be aiming for. In the end, most words ended up being added, but that was likely overkill.
Repeats are helpful in-context, but they should probably be avoided within the same chapter. We can edit those out.
@Kazzeon, @Belthazar: Do you mind marking the words you think are too easy to include? That would help a lot. You can use the column(s) after Notes to do so.
So, starting the discussion beforehand:
She (yotsuba) is talking about how smoking is bad. She says so on a previous panel.
たばこはわるいからだめだって, then switches to ワルかった and ワルイのか？
I thought we were setting up the reading pack / vocab list in a similar fashion to the one some of us used for Vol. 2, with all the repetitiveness and minutiae that that involved.
The changes that I have seen this morning, that seem to have been made by people who don’t even really need to use the list, have just made participation for those of use who do depend on it (sometimes very much) that much more difficult.
It’s reasonably simple to revert changes in Google docs. Glancing through the changes, I’m not really sure what you’re concerned about, though in all fairness I’m one of the people who don’t even really need to use the list. Either way, I don’t really feel that repetition is necessary.
Thanks for looking it over, both of you.