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[image] Sharpevil: よっぽどらくだとおもうけど。- I’m reading the らく as 楽. Think that’s correct? Yes. [image] Sharpevil: ほうきにだって、たまには遊び飛びっていうの、させてあげなくっちゃ。

Wow, we’re making serious progress through this book, huh? Looking forward to having more of the book behind than in front. Two pages a night has been a great pace for me thus far. Enough to keep me going, but not so much that I’m tempted to throw it aside because I want the extra time to paint at n…

[image] Sharpevil: 海に行けばみんなおんなじだから、- I’d never realized that 同じ could be pronounced おんなじ. I wonder why this pronunciation was used, if for any meaningful reason at all? It feels like it could be a pun. No need to think of reasons really. It’s just more colloquial and whether you use it or not…

I made it to the beginning of chapter 5 but it’s hard to keep up—it’s my first time reading a real novel. I think maybe I should slow down my wanikani leveling to make more time for reading, but it’s hard to resist doing all my new lessons right away. Also I think I’ve been looking up too many word…

Just sitting down to knock out some more reading and I was wonder what grade level is this novel at? I’m guessing 6th grade level, maybe? Also, What’s up with the double て at the end of this sentence: 赤ちゃん見ててあげるわ。

[image] kayleem: but it’s hard to resist doing all my new lessons right away Save yourself. Use Lesson Filter . :wink: [image] ApexNihon: Also, What’s up with the double て at the end of this sentence: 赤ちゃん見ててあげるわ。見る見て見ている見てる (い is removed in casual speech) 見てて That’s how the…

Kiki’s reaction to putting on the bathing suit was so cute! Really enjoying this chapter, although some of it has been tough to read. 大川をはさんで両側に、ちょうちょの羽根のようにのびているこの町も、音楽にあわせて動いて見えます。 Had some issues with this sentence, mostly because I kept getting “bankruptcy” from はんで, in ichi.moe. Here is my br…

Remember that Kiki has the radio on and was flying along, moving to the music. So it’s saying that the town, stretching out on both sides of the river like butterfly wings, also seemed to be moving along to the music, from what Kiki can see.

Does anybody know if the translation for 海坊主風 is the one we can find in the vocab sheet, that is: “sea monster wind (slang)” ? Edit: Now that I think about it, it makes more sense. Is this like a proper name given to this wind?

海坊主 is definitely a thing in Japan, but I think the translation “sea monster” might be misleading here (at least I think of dragon-/dinosaur-like creatures with long necks etc. when I hear “sea monster” but ymmv). This is a wikipedia article about it: [image] Umibōzu This is an old revisi…

魔女の宅急便 (Kiki’s Delivery Service) Discussion Thread: Chapter 5

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seanblue August 20, 2020, 11:14am 84

Save yourself. Use Lesson Filter.

見る
見て
見ている
見てる (い is removed in casual speech)
見てて

That’s how the conjugation works at least. I don’t have enough context to say why it’s in this form instead of just being 見て.

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