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 m…

Plus, ultimately here what we want is to end up with a book selected that has plenty of people who want to read it, not to try to maximise “fairness” between the various books that have been nominated. Even if more people vote for book A because it happens to have been nominated more recently, does …

I voted against overlapping book clubs. Many members are behind the schedule and they would rather skip the new book and only read every other one with the club. I am currently reading my 11th IBC book, and although my reading gets a little faster and I usually read ahead of the schedule (preparing…

About overlapping, wouldn’t that mean that short books are preferred? I am not a regular member of a club, so I’d prefer to have a new book more often, so that I have more occasions to jump in when interested. (Otherwise I don’t think people here like to read faster.) Asking language questions, or …

I think the Natively list is really helpful. (It includes the cover art for @simias :wink: ). Can we add a short blurb or pitch from the nomination post and perhaps a link back to the nomination??

[image] 2000kanji: I am currently reading my 11th IBC book, and although my reading gets a little faster and I usually read ahead of the schedule (preparing for coming weeks with less reading time) I would feel stressed if the next book would start right now, doubling my weekly workload. I’ve…

That’s a great idea [image] Domjcw: (Or is anyone interested in running another primer club?) Maybe so, in 3-6 months or so, if there is interest for something like that I could see myself doing that. It seems like the kind of thing that might attract enough people every couple years.

you could have a look at the past IBC books and run a re-read club on something that you are interested in?

I have my sights set on キッチン as the shortest one that I’m interested in as that might make it least objectionable to start at half speed :joy: Another idea is to start with something way shorter like this that also has a jpdb deck. Maybe then it would be a good one for people who are moving up to …

[image] mitrac: I have my sights set on キッチン as the shortest one that I’m interested in as that might make it least objectionable to start at half speed :joy: I’d join you for that one :slight_smile: And I could generate a frequency list if people would find that useful.

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Domjcw June 28, 2024, 12:33pm 4554

The IBC primer book club was really helpful. You could have a go at that? I found the slow speeding up of that club really useful.
(Or is anyone interested in running another primer club?)

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