I’ve realized that I want to try improving my reading speed specifically for karaoke. I realized the other day while doing karaoke that I stumble a lot over the kana only parts of lyrics specifically. I tend to do a lot better when singing along with someone (although it’s still difficult) and when solo-ing a song, I sometimes lose the line until the final ending or kana of that line. Funnily enough, WK seems to have helped a lot with the kanji aspect as I don’t have problems keeping pace with singing along to the lyrics when they have kanji I’ve learned from here.
So my main problem is that I tend to get scrambled on the kana only parts of songs. I’d like to improve so I can sing along better when invited to duet a song (especially ones that I just know how they sound and haven’t bothered to try to understand the lyrics) and also so I can solo better. I’m really not too worried about increasing my comprehension since I know that’ll come sooner or later with the rest of my studies (although I assume that will take several years). And I’m also not going to try to completely understand a song I’ve been asked to duet (if I like it, I can look up the lyrics later). For now, I read kana daily on WK and in my daily life, but I just can’t read it aloud at a sustained speed. I plan to try using kanjiroids’ kana function more often, but what else do you think I can do to improve my reading speed of straight kana?
I’m hoping to get good enough to sing songs in general (probably nothing rap or known for being fast though) in the next 6m-1y. I’m trying to optimistically hope for an end to this pandemic…
Besides reading books with more kana, you could just pick random songs and try to sing them on the fly. Repeat a given song several times, and then move on to a different song.
