I’d say you’re exactly the target of the Absolute Beginner Book Club (ABBC):
If you’re willing to learn grammar as you go, you can join in the current ABBC book, or pick up a prior ABBC book or manga. All the old threads are there, with a lot of grammar discussion, and you can still ask questions if they’re not already covered.
I’ve read almost 80 manga volumes across 24 different series, and the easiest manga thus far has been レンタルおにいちゃん. (Even after accounting for my improved reading ability, grammar knowledge, and vocabulary over time.) We previously read the first volume in the ABBC, and I’m running an offshoot club for the last three volumes.
Bilingual books for kids are great. Look in the miscellaneous book club list for the Treasury of Japanese folktales. I have that book, and there’s a decent amount of Kanji (with furigana that you can ignore), but relatively simple grammar, and if it doesn’t make sense, you can use the English translation that’s right there to help you.
There once was a problem where it said you can’t change a poll after 5 minutes - that was a bug in Discourse and it’s fixed by now afaict.
But what happens quite frequently to me when editing book club threads is that Discourse forgets the Japanese → Reading category. A while ago it gave a good error message but now the error message is really meaningless But for me, this generic error so far always meant that it forgot the category. Select it in the dropbox and you‘re good to save it again.
Hmm, I’ve had this error before - where it lost the category - and this is definitely different.
It just says “you cannot edit a poll after 5 minutes” (or very similar), and the category is still there and correct.
In my case, I was simply editing the “Next Week:” part to link to the following week. So from saying “Chapter 10 - coming 28th November” to saying “Chapter 10”.
It’s the same thing I do every single week for every single book club. Don’t even go near the poll. I’m fresh out of book clubs, so I don’t know if it will affect any other threads for me.
Yes, I had that as well, but it was a few weeks ago (when they had changed something in Discourse, so I figured that broke it) and it did not occur recently any more. While the category loss issue happens to me basically each week… (I’m usually editing 5 topics per week for the book clubs.)
When I had that issue with some of the threads, it took a day or two to become editable again. Fingers crossed that it will work for you again tomorrow as well!
I’ve been having this problem for a week, so I am not sure if it’s going away. And it’s exactly as @Radish8 describes: I am just trying to add a link to some text in the main post, not going anywhere near the poll, but I get the same error they mention.
I did see that there was a similar bug on Discourse before, but that bug was supposed to have been fixed. So either the bug is back, or maybe Wanikani is running an older version of Discourse? Perhaps the admins could weigh in.
I just edited a post with a poll less than an hour ago, and it worked fine. If you can find a way to reproduce it consistently, you could report it on https://meta.discourse.org.
I had that bug for two posts some weeks ago. You can delete the poll, saved the post then do the poll again. You lose the poll results but you can change the OP.
I think it’s that the affected posts are still affected, while any new posts are fine. So I have that one thread that’s stuck, and presumably Phryne does too. Total speculation though!
@Wildjinjer I reverted the change you just made to say “Volume 2”. I’d like to keep the information in this thread high level for simplicity’s sake, so I think “In Progress” is sufficient here.
@IntrepidFox An “Offshoot Book Club” is usually a club that started as a regular book club pick for the first volume of a series and is then continued separately for the subsequent volumes (the book clubs usually only read the first volume).
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that やがて君になる was not a regular Beginner Book Club pick. In that case, could you please move it into the table under “Miscellaneous Book Clubs (scheduled)”? Thanks!
But for me, this generic error so far always meant that it forgot the category. Select it in the dropbox and you‘re good to save it again.
I hope that one thread isn’t just forever broken, that will annoy me no end.