老女的少女ひなたちゃん・Little Granny Girl Hinata-chan 👩‍👧 — Week 11 (Absolute Beginners Book Club)

Welcome to the eleventh week of the Little Granny Girl Hinata Chan book club!

Week 10 11th May 2024
End page 132 (end of chapter 7)
End phrase そりゃあよかった
Pages 17
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Vocabulary

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Proper Nouns

Name Reading Image Notes
日向 ひなた image Main character
三芳 とよ みよし とよ image Hinata’s past self
文夏 もか image Hinata’s friend and classmate (Note, you’ll often see her name written as モカ)
千春 ちはる image Hinata’s friend and classmate
咲夜 さくや image Aloof classmate
冬馬 とうま image Rowdy classmate, leader of the boys
遥登 はると image Hinata’s older brother
サダヲ Toyo (past Hinata)'s grandson

Discussion Questions

  1. What sentence/passage gave you the most difficulty? Feel free to request some help, or if you figured it out on your own break it down for the rest of us!
  2. What was your favorite new vocab word from this week’s reading?
  3. Was there any passage that you found particularly intriguing? Did it resonate with you (either positively or negatively)? Was it surprising? Offer any insight or new perspective? Was it just beautifully written?
  4. Have you ever had jelly donuts onigiri?
  5. Is Hinata capable of learning new tricks after all?

Dialect Guide

Hinata speaks with a little bit of a Fukushima dialect at times. You’ll see this with ぺ or っぺ replacing the ends of sentences, so e.g. だっぺ instead of だよ or だった。Unfortunately it’s not always the same replacement.

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Another new name in this one - 明美あけみせんせい on page 115.

Page 119, I’m gonna ignore the absurd size of the pile on the previous page, but where’d she pull that jar and that big sack of salt from in the fourth panel? (And for a spot of cultural learning, the final panel of this page includes a small visual clue that it’s the rainy season… I mean, aside from the rain - specifically, the hydrangeas are blooming. It’s one of the biggest symbols of early summer in Japanese culture, in much the same way that sakura are for spring.)

Page 120, Hinata’s got her entire kindergarten working on this. Do the child labour laws not apply if another child is the employer? :stuck_out_tongue:

Page 123, kinda sad that they give the jars back. At least take them home for your parents?

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What’s the sentence-ending particle (I’m assuming) け represent? I’ve seen it several times now. Example p.116: 聞いてたのけ

Also I know plenty of people who eat umeboshi, so I don’t get the whole “only old people know what that is” angle. They’re everywhere. My breakfast buffet at the hotel had them.
which is how I know they’re good with other flavors, but not for eating whole, as the kids discover

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Question particle か.

How many preschool kids were also eating at said buffet? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Come to think of it, I am kind of old, aren’t I?
[No! It’s the kids who are wrong! meme]

Also, this -け ending… all right that makes perfect sense now, but is there some connotation to using it for か? Gender/age/regional thing? Emphasis? Just lazy pronunciation?

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Yes.

Probably regional, if I had to pick one of those.

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There’s also this usage:

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Yah, but that’s usually っけ, and isn’t really what’s happening here.

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Sentence breakdowns from my notes, thought I could post them here in case anyone wanted to stare at them and go ah yeah that sure is a breakdown

I didn’t cross-reference these definitions with the vocab list so some might be a little off

Favourite pics from this chapter

Discussion Questions

  1. I have tried jelly donuts onigiri, but it was just some plain ones I made myself once. I made some in the shape of cats and ghosts for Halloween
  2. Absolutely! It was very thoughtful of her to make onigiri for her classmates

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I tried a 梅干し once by itself without knowing what it was and it was the worst thing I’ve ever eaten. I agree with the kids on this one

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Week 12 thread is up:

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Well… at least Moka likes them.

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