hello! I bought Japanese graded readers, and I’m doing wanikani+bunpro. I’m not super far on either, but I had hopes that I would be able to read lvl 0 by now. :frowning: My specific frustration is that even on this first page, where the text is あつ、桜のつぼみ! もうすぐ、桜が咲きます。 At this level of wanika…

[image] nickmayergg: The atsu at the beginning, turns out, is japanese onomatopoeia for laughter?!?! I can’t find record of that being the case anywhere．In fact, when I type it out, I can’t even make the tsu small like it is on the page! “ltsu” or “xtsu” = っ. あっ is kind of a chopped-off “ah”…

I only just last week started bunpro， so I absolutely need to focus on verb conjugation． That said， I’m not level 48 anyway! Ahhhh why does the lvl 0 reader have a lvl 48 kanji as the first thing． I wish tofugu / wanikani people would publish a reader so that it could be leveled with their existin…

It has furigana, right? The difficulty of a word and the difficulty of a kanji are not quite the same thing. ねこ is a word almost all beginners know, but 猫 isn’t taught in Japanese schools until junior high.

[image] nickmayergg: Ahhhh why does the lvl 0 reader have a lvl 48 kanji as the first thing． Mostly because WaniKani teaches the kanji in rough order of increasing complexity of writing, while native students learn them in increasing complexity of meaning (though, 咲 is taught in secondary sch…

it does have furigana， but even if I can “read it” I can’t understand it right. with so many gaps in my knowledge, is the answer to just use rikaichamp to define all the words I don’t know and throw them into an anki deck until I’ve done this for every word I’ll ever need to know? Or is there a bet…

Is it…? I thought it was abandoned lol.

actually thank you so much. I’m just gonna do the anki deck for the first volume and read through it when I finish it. This will give me a set end date on my inability to read at least SOMETHING.

It’s going to be okay. Starting out reading like this will always be uncomfortable, even with beginner level material. It’s normal to have to look up words. And as you look up these words and begin to learn more, you tend to find that subsequent reading sessions get easier and easier because those w…

It’s just on pause. Hopefully coming off pause very soon. Plus, there’s still people around to answer questions in the old threads.

Are the readers physical books or online? I haven’t started yet but I’m definitely going to do with online sources. That way I can just copy the word into jisho (after de-conjugating if needed first) or a mono-lingual dictionary later on.

Getting a little frustrated and need some help starting to read

Japanese Language Reading

Belthazar November 22, 2019, 12:04am 7

Yotsuba is fairly slangy. On the plus side, here on the forums we’ve got a Yotsuba reading club you can turn to for help.

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Getting a little frustrated and need some help starting to read

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