🍀よつばと!・ Yotsuba&! (Absolute Beginners Book Club) // Home Thread

Would that I had the squaremetres to put them in… :head_shaking_horizontally:

Just wanted to recommend https://jpdb.io/ for sentence breakdowns. It does a similar thing as https://ichi.moe but I like it slightly better. To me, it’s more organized and clear…

@StevenSB where is the 4th week :pleading_face:

(I hope I’m not missing something here)

The topic isn’t up yet. Luckily you can already start reading without it :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah I know, just wanna post some questions already :grin:

Sorry! I’m posting it now!

Sorry about that, everybody. I forgot to post it last night and I was out all day today :frowning:

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I’m a couple weeks behind, between being busy and just not having the mental energy for the full immersion of reading, but I’m going to try to get caught up this week. I’m guessing most of the questions that I’ll likely encounter will already be answered, but I’ll apologize in advance for adding more posts to prior threads hahaha.

That’s what the threads are for. I recently posted stuff in a thread for a book from 2020 :wink:

I should’ve bought something like this instead of Nana haha

Since it’s simpler (I love Nana)

Nana is my favourite anime of all time. Have gotten the English version of the manga as my first manga ever. Haven’t really gotten around to reading them though.

No problem mate, hope you had a great day :smiley:

Dw about it :laughing:

So do it now! :slight_smile:

I’ll second this. If you have the means to do so, it’s never too late to pick up a copy of Yotsuba.

My own formula for word density of the two series (first volumes) puts Yotsuba at about a 6 and Nana just above 21, where lower means fewer words per page and higher is more.

While you can start reading with Nana, go through each line of dialogue, looking up unknown vocabulary, and learning unknown grammar, it’ll be more difficult to feel like you’re making progress. It’s not impossible, as I did this with a manga where the word density was over 26, but that was a four-panel (4koma) style manga where context only needed to be followed across four panels.

Going the Yotsuba route, you’ll likely spend more time looking up common grammar, as I imagine Nana (which I haven’t read and know nothing about) will have a higher rate of less common grammar. Yotsuba also has a smaller selection of vocabulary words (about 650 unique words versus Nana with around 1,600).

Week 5!

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I just ‘finished’ Vol 1 last night. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how much I comprehended on my first passes so rather than dissect each page I’ve read the chapter in Japanese; read a scanlation to fill in pieces I missed, and then read it in Japanese again. On my second passes I’d say my comprehension is ~80%. Reading the scanlation is very helpful in identifying words I knew but just didn’t pick up for one reason or another; as well as onomatopoeias I mistook for ‘real’ worlds “Hyagh”, “GAOO” etc

Very thankful for this bookclub to get me started- I wouldn’t have done this without the thread, and I was feeling a bit discouraged on my progress prior to it. Being able to actually (mostly) read and enjoy my first native content has been very encouraging; and this series is a lot of fun.

Week 6 is here!

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Week 7 is here!

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