That sounds cool ^^
Although an entire chapter seems like a lot. Maybe a page each or something?
Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to participate though 
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Yeah, wouldn’t have to literally be a chapter. I was just making up an amount for rhetorical effect. Classic polit------
onion turtle.Too busy to participate?
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Oh I see ^^ Sorry
I have anxiety with speaking lol. Especially with a mic 
So… I would love to attend but I just wouldn’t be able to talk!
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clap in morse code
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Haha me too. It will be a struggle for me if it happens. But yeah, I totally get it
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It was pretty fun that one time I joined as well. But (you may remember) I have unavoidable interruptions coming in at random times. Even if I try to hide away and leave my spouse to deal with them, it turns out I don’t feel good about it, and the interruptions will find their way to me anyway.
The way my life is right now, I just can’t schedule enough time for that… 
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That is my favorite Shakespeare quote!
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But what would you do about vocab? Often I can understand a sentence, but only after looking up a bunch of vocab. It would be a shame to ruin the flow over that…
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Right. I will put up the poll tonight JP time (i.e. 24h after saying the deadline was “today”).
I’m thinking 3-4 days for the votes as well, depending on how many votes we get (and if it seems to slow down or not)
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Believe it or not but it goes by faster than you would imagine. The two times I participated in this the entire group was able to make up for being behind after reading aloud for about an hour and a half. I can’t recall how much we covered in that time period, but I’m pretty sure we got through a chapter in that time frame. Additionally, people volunteered how much they wanted to read so it made it easier for those who preferred to listen.
I think it’s probably something we should implement again for those interested.
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I might join in but it will depend on the book chosen. I still have lots of book to read. You guys give me so much good books to read but don’t let me read them.
Plz guys stop trying to make me buy book when I already have something like 9 books unread at home 
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Ooooo I’d love to read together in a Discord chat! Would probably make me actually keep up with readings.
I’m sure it would be fine to just listen and participate via text if you wanted to say something.
Could having a vocab list filled out in advance be a possible solution?
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It’s definitely not my cup of tea to participate in, but I could see myself dropping by to listen in on some of the discussion if something like this started up.
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Sometimes I read together with my Favourite Japanese Guru™ who is of course far more advanced than I am. Usually, once I reach an unknown word, they have already conveniently opened it in Jisho (we’ve only done this in real life so far). So was wondering how something like this might be done in an online session… Maybe somebody who is not reading can look up and paste the presumably unknown vocab to the chat as we read along?
Also, when we read together I usually give the translation at the same time as reading, i.e. right after I’ve read the Japanese sentence or sometimes even intermittently, after a relative clause or so, if the sentence is rather long. How did you handle that in the past? Would you just read the Japanese text and only translate on request?
Another idea: I’m attending a Japanese listening class where the teacher reads a story sentence by sentence, and the students repeat the sentence one after the other in Japanese. After that, the first student gives the English translation, and then the next student starts a new round. I.e. with three students it would be ABC repeat the Japanese sentence, A gives the translation, BCA repeat the next sentence, B gives the translation, and so on. Drawing on this, we could maybe try out a mode where one person reads a sentence and the next person gives the translation and so on. (I am thinking of this because quickly reading Japanese aloud can still be so brain-consuming for me that sometimes I am not even able to think much about the meaning…)
Anyway, I’d be super-interested in such a session, and of course everybody is welcome, whether they want to speak or not!
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I’ve never done a session like that before but I’d imagine we wouldn’t translate where possible, because it does become a crutch. Of course explain grammar points and maybe translations of single vocab, but probably not whole sentences.
Also I love the idea but honestly, I’d be so full of anxiety I probably won’t actually speak even though I so desperately need to work on my pronunciation and speaking 
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That’s a good point indeed.
No pressure 
You could just listen in and figure out what you want to do.
Full disclosure: I’m very slow at reading (and speaking, and understanding) so I am always afraid of boring others to death because of that…
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The idea seems interesting, but I think I’d personally be way too anxious about it to actually be able to participate myself.
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Possibly. All the vocab is already in Floflo (excluding misparses). I’m still not sure how I could possibly check vocab and think about a given “harder” sentence quickly enough to keep up with an upper intermediate reader’s pace. But I’m willing to listen in at least once. Just don’t expect me to speak. 
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Poll for the next book is here!
Please see the List of Proposed Books section in the first post for the details for each book. Every book has a difficulty associated with it (based on book club member voting) out of 5, where 1 means “no effort at all” and 5 means “impossible, even with everyone’s help”. The difficulty based on the book club member voting is next to each option in brackets (and are thus subjective).
We will most likely begin reading on March 9th, one week after the beginner book club starts reading their current pick. This will hopefully help people wishing to join both avoid being overwhelmed. As usual (in that other thread), if a manga wins first place, we will also read the second place winner right afterward.
I will close the poll within a week (and most likely before that), whenever it looks like voting has dried up. You can choose up to 5 options .
- (Manga) Made in Abyss [2.73]
- (Manga) Land of the Lustrous [2.15]
- Kino’s Journey [2.65]
- Your Name [2.94]
- Wolf Children Ame & Yuki [2.32]
- I Want to Eat Your Pancreas [2.58]
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya [2.50]
- Rascal Does Not Drea of Bunny-Girl Senpai [2.50]
- The Familiar of Zero [2.67]
- 紅霞後宮物語 [3.00]
- Magical Girl Raising Project [2.89]
- The Closet of Nightmares [2.25]
- Night Market [2.69]
- Door D [3.00]
0 voters
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