本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 | Week 4 📚

本の読み方 スロー・リーディングの実践 | Week 4 :books:

Week 4 30 Nov 2024
Sections to read 「遅読」こそ「知読」to end of part II
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He wants us to damage books?? :scream: :scream:

In other news, next week we finally dive into case studies, starting with 夏目漱石’s novel 「こころ」. I read ahead a tiny bit and I wanna warn folks that there are what seems like pretty big spoilers for the book! I don’t know if he does that every time, but be careful if there are any novels in the list of case studies that you don’t want to get spoiled on…

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Yeah, I am not particularly precious about the physical condition of my books, but I can’t bring myself to actively write in them or fold the corners of pages :slight_smile:

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I’m away from home this month to help family with family stuff, so I think I’m going to just skip this section and hop back in on the Natsume Soseki excerpt (hopefully).

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This week was very relatable to me :blush:

“Reading aloud makes you try to progress as fast as possible while sacrificing understanding” → especially when reading to a Native whom I don’t want to bore to death beyond the absolutely necessary (i.e. when I’m not able to read words)…

“Only use the cleanest of books for reading aloud” → Ahem :flushed: :grin:

I found his book marking technique very interesting. Used a lot of underlining back in uni ^^ but I never thought about doing so with normal books. Also, I don’t think I could get myself to fold the corners of the books - nowadays I use removable sticky bookmarks which I even write on sometimes.

But this reminded me of JLPT - I can warmly recommed his techniques for the reading section of the test. I used underlining so far but I liked his technique of marking しかし and stuff where the actual intention changes. Sounds super useful.

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I also do not feel comfortable writing in my books lol.

And I was glad to hear someone bring up how reading aloud lowers your understanding of the text!
In a couple of interviews I’ve had to read Japanese text out loud, and then was asked to describe the meaning in English. Both times I was so focused on making sure I was reading the Japanese correctly I had to go back and re-read it in my head in order to be able to comprehend what I was just saying.

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Proper nouns

志賀(しが)直哉(なおや) Naoya Shiga - Wikipedia
大江(おおえ)健三郎(けんざぶろう) Kenzaburō Ōe - Wikipedia

About marking physical books, I don’t read physical books much these days, but I don’t like to write or highlight in the book. Except when there are exercises or something, I might use a pencil. I frequently make dog ears, as I don’t mind that much.

For actual uni studying, I might use a pen to underline or circle. I might highlight, but only on harder studies. e-book / PDF is the same. I did nothing so far for ADoBJG, only copying something out.

In e-books, I highlight whatever is interesting, or just funny (Bookwalker these days). I rarely comment inside the highlights (Bookwalker feature). But Bookwalker allows only max 50 highlight – I find that a problem.


On the topic of reading aloud, I don’t explicit read Japanese aloud, but I think spoken lines might be fun to speak out than narrative ones.

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