I see this one used a bit differently, though I understand where DeepL is going with it.
(Following a competition to see who can hold their breath underwater the longest, Chi’s mother tricks her into coming up early:)
This one I’ve never encountered in my limited manga reading, so no examples of it from me.
Then there’s me seeing a word for the hundredth time, saying to myself, “Is that a つ or っ in the furigana? I really need to learn how this word is pronounced one of these days…”
I recently decided to start making SRS cards for those ones specifically. Maybe I’ll start to recognize those patterns once I know which is being used, beyond looking it up when I encounter a word and then forgetting it two seconds later.
I’m so happy to have joined this book club, can’t express my gratitude enough… The story is really cute, I didn’t expect to like it that much, since I don’t normally read manga or watch anime. Actually, I expected this to be so much more difficult, but I just read all the pages for week one within such a short period of time and understood close to all of it. Definitely a confidence boost, since this is my first time actually reading native content in Japanese.
Thanks to everyone who asked and answered questions, this really helped me to either internalize grammer points further or to clear up confusion arising from casual language!
On another note, I’m reading on BookWalker and since this is my first time reading online, I didn’t know that you couldn’t download the book and read as PDF. I didn’t think that would be an issue, but seems like it’s quite impractical to zoom in as it either skips to another page when I try to zoom or goes back to it’s original size when going to the next page. The furigana is just incredibly small and I have to squint when I don’t know a kanji.
Does someone have any experience or tipps on how to overcome this?
It’s one of my long list of issues with bookwalker alongside the incredibly slow page flips and the constant refreshes if you ever dare to think about switching apps for even a second.
I recommend amazon, if you are willing to do the initial setup. They have much of the same zooming system, as in, when you go to the next page it gets zoomed out, but that’s not actually that bad of a thing, since you often want to see the whole page in one after flipping. But at least there you have the ability to download your books and remove the drm off of them for personal use. I won’t go into details, because that’s sketchy, but google is a magical tool. I used to do this to be able to read kindle books at full quality on my linux pc, and it doesn’t take that much effort.
I see, thanks for the reply. I suppose I’ll try to continue with bookwalker, since I’ve already bought the book. Will definitley consider Amazon for my next book tho.
Slightly tedious, but what I did was, I screenshotted each page from Bookwalker and compiled the images into a PDF (there is a built in Mac feature that lets you create a PDF from images in Finder, idk about Windows though). Now I read the PDF from my iPad and annotate it with a note-taking app. I really love it because I can zoom in/out as much as I like and I also find that digitally annotating really helps me. But ofc if you do this and you don’t have a tablet you can just read the PDF from your computer.
Wow, can’t imagine screenshotting over a hundred pages, that’s quiet some dedication right there! I don’t have an iPad, but even if a had one, I don’t really like taking notes digitally. I see how this can really benefit you, but I personally prefer learning without notes. Taking notes kind of takes the fun out of reading for me personally and understanding everything in detail isn’t a priority for me anyway. I sort of want to learn Japanese the way I learned English, simply by immersing myself as much as possible without it feeling like actual studying. But that’s just me, everyone learns differently, obviously. Finding what works for oneself and keeping at that is key.
To tell you the truth, I just did it for the first chapter because it’s free on Bookwalker. I have the physical copy of the book at home, but I’m traveling this week and forgot to bring it (sigh) so this is what I ended up doing – but I might just buy it digitally on Bookwalker/Amazon and continue my digital annotating because it’s really working for me!
Yes I completely agree! It’s great that there’s so many different ways to approach immersion depending on one’s preferences/goals
Uhh, I so wish I had the physical copy as well, but it’s just so expensive to ship and I already have too many books in my apartment anyway…
If it works and keeps you motivated, definitely do it! Just as we already established, it’s really nice finally finding something that works for your learning style. I’m experiencing that right now with my own learning journey.
Just jumping in to say hello. Thank you for all the helpful explanations. This is my first attempt at reading native material and I’m already learning a lot.
I did in fact see it, but unfortunatley I don’t really have any Japanese bookstores in my vicinity, at least not to my knowledge.
I will travel to Japan later this year to study for a year though, so I will hopefully be able to stock up on books there In the meantime, unless I find another solution, I will suck it up and read online.
Yes please. This would be awesome. Especially considering how Jump Comics felt the need to save ink by not printing page numbers making search lookup in the thread that much more difficult.
Hi guys. An additional question, if that’s not too much trouble:
何でツノ生えたの?＝ “How/Why did your horns grow?”. Is the difference between the how/why meanings purely dependent on context?" (ie. we’ll know whether the person is saying ‘how’ or ‘why’ based on the context?)
In the meantime, unless I find another solution, I will suck it up and read online.