🦕 ギャルと恐竜・ Gal and Dino (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

[TobiasW]

@Dathmach

My question is this; should I join this book club and try to do what I can?

I feel like the ABBC opening post says it pretty well:

@emucat

What Does Absolute Beginner Mean?

This bookclub is aimed at readers who are tackling native Japanese material for the first time. A grammar knowledge around the level of JLPT N5 / end of Genki 1 is probably about right. Kanji knowledge is not essential as the books chosen will have furigana.

The bookclub isn’t really aimed at readers who are “absolute beginners” in Japanese. At that level your time is probably best spent learning basic grammar and vocabulary before tackling native material.

And I think I’d actually recommend halfway through Genki 2 at least.

(Which is when I tried and failed my first ABBC - but I could’ve definitely powered through if I had a higher frustration tolerance level and was more comfortable with the fact that “reading” meant “having to look up every second word”.)