📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

[rikaiwisdom]

@NicoleIsEnough

I’m so sorry that I tricked you into this

Hey, not at all, don’t be! I already had the book from many years ago. I saw it in my local Japanese store and I bought it cause I thought it was nice and also cheap. I only own two physical books in Japanese, and after reading 君の名は it was only natural that I would read the other one once I was done hehe. I also mentioned it in my conclusion of the autumn thread:

@rikaiwisdom

[…] Finding resources that are just for my level or close will be the next challenge. Both 君の名は and 星の王子さま will fall close, I think. I want to try a full novel next.

I’m thinking that perhaps alternating this with an easier resource might be best to keep my interest going strong right now. I’m not exactly sure what I’d like to start, perhaps a video game.

@NicoleIsEnough

(And we’ve speculated a lot on how the authors choose whether to pick a kanji or kana, and sometimes they write the same word in kanji on one page, and in kana on another page My secret assumption is that they don’t want the page to be too fraught with kanji because at some point the text will start to look more difficult with too many kanji, but I have no idea whether this is actually relevant or not.)

This is so funny to me for some reason. Even Japanese people feel dread when they encounter the WallOfKanji™? We’re not alone!