今日は ! As a mere beginner, I still wanted to apply some of my new Japanese knowledge in an attempt to read my first Japanese manga ever : ドラゴンボール Nevertheless, I was immediately surprised by the difficulty of a manga I thought was good to begin with since it was my favorite one since when I was abo…

I highly recommend よつばと！as a beginner manga. It might not be the most interesting content for you, but it’ll help you get a foothold in reading. It has much less slang and more everyday expressions. It was still incredibly difficult in the beginning. I’d spend 20 minutes looking at one phrase trying…

I’ll try slowly with ようばとas so many of you recommend it and I’ll maybe add a comment on my own experience :smiley:

[image] ChristopherFritz: Or maybe I’ll just rewatch the anime. The manga is sooo much better though. Specifically, the animation in the anime is kind of mediocre, whereas the art in the manga is beautiful.

This is such a great thread! I started reading 君の名は today. I’ve never read manga before - I’m level 12 WK and have studied grammar before, previously finishing books one and two of みんなの日本語. I’ve never tried JLPT. This book was on some online list I found too as being a good one for beginners. I kn…

If we’re offering resources for unknown phrases (I say phrases, and often times vobulary, rather than foundational grammar, which you might be better off learning formally from books or learner-oriented sites), and aren’t equipped to dive headlong into native-oriented language resources or want to c…

Lids: I’m excited to have discovered that WK has a book club??!! I’m totally going to look that one up! There are a whole bunch of book clubs. :slight_smile: [image] Master List of Book Clubs Book Clubs Introduction There are several book clubs here on…

I personally think that a lot of the easy manga suggestions are not really helpful to me. Maybe it makes sense to someone further along in grammar and vocabulary, but for me, Dragon Ball was not easy to start. Titles like: Yostuba!, Chi’s sweet home were, but still they can be a bit much here and th…

Maybe I should have mentioned that I didn’t start by reading manga, I used the graded readers as a stepping stone before I was able to read actual native materials.

[image] QuackingShoe: Yotsubato was my first manga, and it took some doing (because my Japanese was terrible), but it’s fun and enjoyable and the language is very simple… just casual. I think the problem, at least in my opinion, is that while it is true that Yotsubato may use simple language …

I find that having a kanji dictionary (whether an actual book or app doesn’t matter) available and a dedicated amount of time to go through each panel really helps me in my understanding. I don’t remember the first time I tried to read a manga in Japanese because I’ve been studying for over 10 years…

First manga reading attempt

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seanblue June 12, 2019, 11:09am 43

There are a whole bunch of book clubs.

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