For the home thread for 魔女の宅急便, click here! Join our Beginner Book Club here! [image] 魔女の宅急便 [image] :arrow_right: For the Chapter 2 discussion thread, click here! Starting date: December 10th Finishing date: December 16th :arrow_down: Start of the Repeat Club discussion Resources Vocab Sheet: O…

AH okay I thought it was here so I didn’t even think to look elsewhere. I swear I know how to computer. Thanks for the link!

What determines whether or not a word/phrase will be spelled out with kanji or hiragana? For example, 人間 vs. ばあい（場合）. Is it the author’s personal decision on what they think a child will understand? I’m noticing a lot of words that I’ve already learned through WK that are written out in hiragana.

[image] mintyfresh: Is it the author’s personal decision on what they think a child will understand? That’s the impression I get, although I don’t have any specific information on it. I do know that manga authors don’t write in furigana[1] (as the text is redone for the print release), so I …

It’s probably highly subjective based on the author’s assumed age/grade range of their readers. I would expect they would like to keep things close to the Jouyou kanji taught at the approximate grade level(s) of their intended audience. I would expect one is not going to use a bunch of high-school-l…

eainge: Yes. I found it by googling, so someone else made it (thank you whoever that was!) That was me, actually. And you’re welcome. The deck is actually from this go around, the vocabulary is from last go around’s spreadsheet.

it’s also in the home thread’s OP under “Decks”…! :blush:

Could use some help with clarification for the following phrase: これも一つの魔法といえらかもしれません What is the purpose of the negative conjugation here? Is it to affect implication and/or possibility, since the sentence is talking about black cats being considered another type of magic?

Do you mean かもしれません ? That’s a set expression which means “maybe” / “perhaps”. (And a super-common one, fwiw)

Ah, thank you! Good to know, especially that it’s a common phrase and not necessarily conjugated due to context. I keep forgetting to use Jisho; it’ll most likely solve the vocab/idiom issues I’ve been running into haha.

Wow this chapter got a tad poignant at the end with the description of the witches and the role that black cats play in their lives. Having the little drawing of Kiki and Jiji on the last page as the author talks about them being an important partner and friend as they grow up is absolutely heartwar…

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it’s also in the home thread’s OP under “Decks”…!

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