ポケットモンスタースペシャル Week 2! This Week’s Reading: 第 2 話 VS ゴーリキー Page 19 → Page 32 ▶ Final Panel Home Thread Beginner Book Club Home [image] Week 2 April 25th 2025 Start page 19 End page 32 Pages 14p Previous Week Chapter 1 Next Week Week 3 Home Thread ポケットモンスタースペシャル Schedule We’…

Maybe I should read 1 again at some point :upside_down_face:

Some might say now is the best time :wink:

Probably not now, I’m getting ready for bed :smiley:

▶ Red’s new pokemon Reading wise I’m still finding some of the blurry characters challenging - like the first panel on page 30 with レッド responding to the Q about whether he knew . I know all those kanji - a number of them quite recent levels - but I still found that I struggled to recognise them. All…

[image] jablekanji: What was the trickiest part of the passage for you to read? Did you learn anything new this week? I was uncertain on 「わしもおらんと」on page 23… I thought at first it was an old-fashioned way Oak is saying me and you, but I believe he is saying “not without me” as Red won’t know …

[image] catchingup: I thought at first it was an old-fashioned way Oak is saying me and you, but I believe he is saying “not without me” as Red won’t know what to do without Oak there? Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s the same as わたしもいないと.

[image] jablekanji: If we moved to 1.5 chapters/week next week (14 pages to 21), how would you feel? I don’t like stopping in the middle of a chapter so I would end up reading two chapters one week and then one chapter the next week.

Had to pause on this for a moment as well due to the lack of kanji. Adding to what you have here, Oak is saying:「儂もおらんと」儂 (わし) is a first person pronouns that is associated with older folks. おる is another variant on the existence verb いる, and this stack exchange post has some nice quick-info on…

I bought the book yesterday, I thought I might be able to read some, but it is too difficult for me at the moment. I really love Pokémon, I hoped I’m at good enough level, I feel bad now that it is too hard for me.

Use it to motivate you to keep going :slightly_smiling_face: I bought a physical copy of Crayon Shinchan and every time I saw it lying around it reminded me what made me want to learn Japanese in the first place. Japanese people are horrified when they learn Shinchan is my muse lmao

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Sorry a little late this week but week 3 is up! And we have our schedule - see you there!

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