Intermediate Japanese Book Club Welcome to our Japanese book club! In this club we choose a Japanese book, read it together, and discuss what we’ve read. It could be meaningful discussion on the content, questions about vocabulary and grammar that confuse us, or just motivating each other to keep mo…

[image] seanblue: What’s 1400 pages in Japanese compared to that? :sweat_smile: Just say this to yourself every day, it doesn’t have to be true, you just need to think it is!

[image] Naphthalene: So, anyone up for 多読, in the end? :raising_hand_woman: I’d love a support group of people just trying their best to read every day. I recently started a fantasy book and realized just how different the vocab range is compared to a slice-of-life. I get sick of all the ma…

I’d love a 多読 support group too :slight_smile:

[image] lopicake: :raising_hand_woman: I’d love a support group of people just trying their best to read every day. [image] infinitia: I’d love a 多読 support group too :slight_smile: Right, I don’t exactly how it’s going to go, but I’ll try to make a thread this evening JP time. It will…

I’d love a group like that too. Like some other people have mentioned, I’m not sure if I even have the time (I’ve barely even gotten around to read the two chapters I’ve read of 君の膵臓を食べたい since getting it a couple of weeks back) but I think having at least some sort of structure to fall back on woul…

Alright, I have made a thread: [image] [2023] 多読/extensive reading challenge Reading Preliminary note: this thread was started for the year 2019. The table is reset every year and thus its content will not match the earlier discussions. Goal: the purpose of this thread is…

I was pre-learning some words on FloFlo and came to 枕木 and discovered a new word: sleeper (a.k.a railroad tie). What a coincidence that the word in Japanese contains the kanji for pillow and in English it has sleep in it. Is there any correlation? Why is it called a sleeper anyways?

[image] lopicake: Why is it called a sleeper anyways? Good question :slight_smile: I became curious because in German (my mother tongue), the name for this thing (“Schwelle”) has nothing to do with sleeping; I would rather translate it as “sill”. Etymologically it seems to be stemming from an…

[image] NicoleIsEnough: “Compare Norwegian sleip (“a sleeper (a timber); as adjective, slippery, smooth”).” Aye, I found the same thing, but haven’t able to hunt down any more details on that front. Perhaps my search fu is just weak…

too busy to read through everything, but I don’t want you guys to think I’m ignoring you. I might read boogie pop.

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Naphthalene February 19, 2019, 11:49am 2398

Alright, I have made a thread:

@Kyayna @infinitia @lopicake @brrricane @Iwasneverhere and everyone else interested.

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