Happiness Book Club - Week 1 Chapter 1 (part 1) ・ Pages 3-19 Start Date: March 5th Week 2: Link Home page: Link We’re reading volume 1 of this manga as part of the Absolute Beginner Book Club . [image] Vocabulary Sheet Building the vocab spreadsheet for the book is a joint project and everyone…

This is my first time jumping into a manga in Japanese. Thank you everybody who contributed to the vocabulary sheet (I have made a lot of use of it :joy:), and the questions / answers here in this thread. It has all helped my understanding a lot. At first it was very slow going (I’m in the ‘needs …

Whew, I’ve managed to keep up today. It’s been interesting so far and manageable thanks to all the help given in this topic and the vocab list. Now on to week 2!

Well as expected, this is quite the rough ride for me. The art is absolutely stunning and I’m already having fun just looking at the pages and figuring stuff out without the text, but reading really is tough. Having to look up almost everything really makes this slow, but it’s still fun and I’m mo…

Just also wanted to say thanks for the great thread and great discussion for the first week. Also, I’m really amazed how good the deepl translator is. I’d never tried using it before. Now I need to work more on NOT using it as much and trying to understand more of the grammar on my own!

Thank you for the thread and all the help - especially with the vocab list. It is my first manga in Japanese, I´ve been learning for a year or so now and although it was not easy or rather… it was pretty hard, I feel excited and not as frustrated as I thought I would be! :smiley: I´m really looking …

Week 2 thread is up! [image] Happiness Week 2 - Absolute Beginner Book Club Book Clubs Happiness Book Club - Week 2 Chapter 1 (part 2) ・ Pages 20-42 Start Date: March 12th Week 1: Link Week 3: Link Home page: Link We’re reading volume 1 of this manga as p…

Thanks for this great breakdown (and thanks to @Androrion for asking the question), I hadn’t seen that shortening before so I was getting a bit stuck up on it, as it very much looked like causative passive progressive past but I couldn’t quite make the conjugations work to get back down to やる. The …

This has been my first serious attempt at reading anything other than short news articles (aimed at beginners…or small children :smiley: ) It’s been hard! I think it would have been impossible without this thread and the vocab list, so a huge thanks to all involved :slight_smile: Roll on week 2!!

Oops looks like I’ve finished week 1s reading and had a question about のに from page 14 ▶ のに from p14

I’ve only completed level 3 and know only very basic grammar. Will I be able to read it or understand it at all?

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Micki March 11, 2022, 6:12pm 100

Week 2 thread is up!

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