I have so many books in my Kindle library that I bought and started only to find out that it was too hard and abandon it. For now, it looks like the Miller-san book will be the first one that I actually finish ( Shosetsu Miraa-san - Minna no Nihongo Shokyu Shiriizu - | スリーエーネットワーク ). What was the fir…

Well i am already done with level 9 and started radicals 3 days ago. Well it can’t be helped.

Trying logging out of the forums and logging back in.

If bilingual books count, then probably Circus Day in Japan :grin: Then, ignoring graded readers, the first native and fully Japanese thing I read fully was the first volume of the manga Flying Witch. The first proper book I read was The Girl who Leapt Through Time, with the Beginner Book Club. Bu…

The first book I finished in Japanese was 獣の奏者(1) from the 青い鳥文庫 (so, with almost full furigana). Still, that was probably jumping in the deep end. Graded readers sound like a much more reasonable option in hindsight.

The first book I finished was 銭天堂 (although I read it after the book club) [Zenitendou] [image] 銭天堂・ Zenitendou, The Mysterious Sweet Shop! (Beginner Book Club) Book Clubs Welcome to 銭天堂・ふしぎ駄菓子屋 candy We read this as the Beginner Book Club! [Zenitendou] …

I randomly picked up a novel that intrigued me once in a Japanese bookstore called 白河夜船 by one 吉本バナナ. After months of carefully picking through vocabulary in my free time, I finished the first short story in the book. Even though the topic was heavy (a young woman who was exhausted with her day to d…

Since then, I read the book “Goodbye Tsugumi” by this same author (Yoshimoto Banana). I enjoyed this one a lot and recommend it over the one above, but I think most people like her book “Kitchen” the best.

Depending on how strictly one wants to define “book”, the first I read through start to end and understood what I read was: [IMG_20200314_210511] [IMG_20200314_210544] [IMG_20200314_210605] Fast-forward 20 years, and maybe I should read it again now that I know grammar =D

What was the first Japanese book that you were able to finish?

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The first book I finished was 銭天堂 (although I read it after the book club)

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What was the first Japanese book that you were able to finish?

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