Happiness Book Club - Week 4 Chapter 2 (part 2) ・ Pages 59-86 Start Date: March 26th Week 3: Link Week 5: 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 proj…

[image] TeaDrinker3000: My biggest difficulty thus far is trying to discern if the the つ I’m looking at is a big つ or a small っ, as it’s difficult to tell. It will get easier over time as you get used to the font. The real issues start when the author starts using very odd fonts to give chara…

Yay, well done! Starting to read is the hardest part and you did it! :smiley: It will only get easier from here (although not very fast). Regarding つ and っ, you will probably not be happy to hear that they keep being easy to confuse in manga - it’s almost as if it’s on purpose. I’ll share the fol…

You’re telling me the red one is supposed to be the small っ?! まさか！:joy: The other thing I find difficult (taking なめたい as an example) is when something could’ve been written with a Kanji (舐めたい) but wasn’t. I get that some things become so popular/colloquialised to the point where the Kanji won’t be n…

[image] TeaDrinker3000: I get that some things become so popular/colloquialised And yeah, it becomes even more troublesome when it is changed its Kana, or collapsed, and isn’t in a dictionary anymore, and no segmentation software could help. At this point, the only thing that may help someti…

[image] TeaDrinker3000: but when there are so many homophones as is Which is why children’s books, written in all, or mostly, hiragana, tend to be harder for beginners that one would expect. Native children have a wide vocabulary but limited kanji knowledge. We learners tend to be the other …

I know a few days late, but I found this article really helpful. [image] Anata, Omae, Temee, Kimi, Kisama あなた, お前, てめぇ, 君, 貴様 What does anata, omae, temee, kimi and kisama mean in Japanese? What's the difference between these words?

Finished this week’s reading! Although a bit late. Almost time for next week’s chapter…

There’s also this thread, I’ve read through it and it’s probably perfect for beginners. [image] DrDru's lab - Comprehensible Input from Day 1 : Part 6 released (2023-02-24) Resources Hi everyone, I have been learning Japanese for a bit more than 3 years now. I started wi…

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If you feel Manga is too burdensome try graded readers!
I love them and they start out really easy from n5 all the way up to n2 difficulty!
For more info check out the wanikani reading club here: Graded Readers and Parallel Texts "Book Club"

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