Welcome to the ホリミヤ・Horimiya Book Club! This is the main thread for reading the manga along with the Absolute Beginner Book Club here on the forums. If you have a bit of experience with Japanese, but you are still easing into reading, then this would be a good place to start! If you have questions a…

If there’s anyone here who is N5 level in grammar (and about N4 in kanji) and has finished the Japanese The Manga Way book, how much did it help in reading real manga? I can’t recognize any learn N5 grammar apart from really simple one like です, etc

Haven’t used that book, but that sounds normal. The very first skill you will need to develop is recognizing word boundaries. Once you have that going, it will be much much easier to intuit if something is a word or some kind of grammar point.

Well, I haven’t finished it… but I’m halfway through and it’s already been a big help. Id recommend it as a reference, especially since you can get used copies cheap.

Which is tricky when so many particles are dropped in casual/manga language :sob:

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