Just realised I’ve started to collect quite a few non-textbook-books for helping me learn to read in Japanese. I only recently bought the しろくまカフェ series to test myself, but once they arrived I was looking for a place to store them when I realised I already had some books that would help with my Jap…

[image] anon9242278: One letter away from being the best thread [image]

I’m not sure if I have any great answers. Certainly doing it a lot helps, and in this respect I think books and manga are different. In Manga you have a lot of context clues and it’s mostly conversation, while most books give you nothing but the text. (Obviously non-fiction books can be either here)…

[image] Ditto20: Nope, but at least I’m working on it! If you count both books and manga, I’m at 237 read so far according to bookmeter :slight_smile: That’s incredible Ditto san :clap: This is my feeling right now :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head: :exploding_head: …

[image] KyokaJiro: If you don’t mind me asking, approximately when did you start reading books in Japanese? Manga would be… around the end of 2017? (I was just under halfway through my first year of university and I’m just over halfway through my fourth now). The first actual book(a children’…

Thanks for sharing Ditto san :slight_smile: It is quite helpful and a level I aspire to reach in the next 2 years. You are a Bakemono Ditto san :grin: [tenor217]

[image] Syphus: But also try not to get stuck on one sentence forever. At some point you may need to understand that you just don’t get it and move on. I think this is the reason I am not able to read books… the moment I feel I am not able to understand something I move on to another book bec…

[image] anon65165570: I think this is the reason I am not able to read books… the moment I feel I am not able to understand something I move on to another book because it kinda irritates me. But next time, the sentence is going to be skipped. It’s never too late to join in with the Absolute B…

Well yes, I would say, the most important thing is to continue. And I think there’s for more benefit in working through a single book and starting a bunch and never finishing them.

[image] When we moved to NZ we gave away most of our books (and lots of other stuff) to try to reduce what we took with us. She still hasn’t forgiven me! I do have some more books in a box in the garage (we don’t have that much space on our bookshelves). Luckily Auckland library has a huge selec…

Right… I think I may join the book clubs on Wanikani so that I am motivated.

This is what I’m reading with the Absolute Beginners’s Book Club, “10 Minute Biographies”. [image] I also bought an art book from one of my favorite animators, Yoshihiko Umakoshi :heart: [image]

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ChristopherFritz January 31, 2021, 4:15am 80

It’s never too late to join in with the Absolute Beginner Book Club.

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