Link to home thread Chapter 1 V1: Pages 9 - 17 V2: Pages 7 - 13 BookWalker: 5 - 10 We’re reading all of Chapter 1 this week!! poll

[image] 私が思ったレース下着😹

I really struggled with the last sentence at the end of chapter 1: I read it like 3 times and had to toss it into google translate to make sure I understood the meaning. Turns out there’s nothing wrong with my reading comprehension, it’s just the author’s ideas are absurd. Anyway, I’m a…

Yeah I thought that it was a weird sentence for all the reasons that you outline, and I can’t quite tell how tongue-in-cheek the author is being with this.

Chapter 1 has been a real challenge for me thus far; reading each page 3-4 times and progressing at a rate of a page per day. Even so, it’s much easier to remember new words and vocabulary in the context of an interesting tale.

Original was posted in the book club thread instead of this one, but I figured out what had me confused here Hopefully this will help others because this was a grammar point I didn’t even realise was a grammar point

[image] VikingSchism: I didn’t realise that 高い木という木 was referring to multiple trees. How embarrassing for you. I understood it immediately because

At least I’m unlikely to forget this now

That tripped me up too since it’s not a verb conjugation sort of deal. Feels more like a set phrase.

I just looked for it in all three A Dictionary of Japanese Grammar books and it was not in any of them!!! Closest you get is “to iu” in the Basic volume but it doesn’t cover the “N という N” structure or “every” meaning. I swear that is the last time I buy paper dictionaries. …

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simias September 4, 2025, 8:52am 17

How embarrassing for you. I understood it immediately because I got it wrong on this very forum mere months ago: Struggling to grasp the full meaning - #4 by schtitt

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