👻 Week 3 10分でよめるこわい話・10 minute Scary Stories (Absolute Beginner Book Club)

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@darkR4bbit

I have a question about the meaning of いちもくさん. I struggled to find its definition when looking up the book’s version, いち目さん, in both ichi.moe and Jisho. Should I generally stick to using the hiragana form when reading this book?

Obligatory plug for the vocab sheet; the correct definitions should already be on there!

As for your question, this book only uses kanji at the grade 1 level. So words that are usually spelled with kanji (一目散) would only include the kanji that a grade 1 student knows. That does confuse jisho sometimes, so yes, try the hiragana version and usually that comes up with the right word.

@darkR4bbit

For my second reading experience, I’d like something that complements my WaniKani kanji learning. Which book club would you recommend for that—specifically one that focuses on texts where words are written with their standard kanji forms?

Hmmm, are you looking for manga or for prose/stories?

For manga, most of the ABBC picks should use standard kanji spelling, but would have furigana. The BBC will sometimes read easier manga with no furigana.

If you’re looking for stories, the 2nd grade readers would have more kanji (up to the required 2nd grade kanji knowledge of a Japanese student), but wouldn’t use standard adult spelling. Children’s novels also use more kanji, but spell some words with hiragana. Checking the BBC’s past entries, this club looks like it read a book that may use more kanji.