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Do you have any suggestions for a first novel in Japanese? I am already reading slice-of-life manga, but the pictures and furigana are a crutch, and the vocab
by Timpy 8y ago
Do you have any suggestions for a first novel in Japanese? I am already reading slice-of-life manga, but the pictures and furigana are a crutch, and the vocab is pretty much limited to everyday life.
- pouetpouet 8y agoI would look into graded readers. Related : Do 20 pages of a book give you 90% of its words? Link: https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-90-of-its-words-795a405afe70 https://blog.vocapouch.com/do-20-pages-of-a-book-gives-you-9... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673229
- corey_moncure 8y agoA couple light / young adult fiction books I've read cover to cover: 星虫 クローズドノート パラレルワールドラブストーリー
- adrianN 8y agoThe DJT Guide is pretty good: https://djtguide.neocities.org/reading%20list.html https://djtguide.neocities.org/reading%20list.html
- dwg 8y agoI used to spend a lot of time trying to find good books but a funny thing happened. The more time I spent choosing a book, the less likely I was to read or finish reading it. I gave up and started choosing randomly. At a convenience store or book store I find the display of "new/popular" books, pick one up, and read a few paragraphs to check the level of difficulty and for cursory interest. If it seems about right—I could generally understand even without recognizing all the words—buy and try. Recently I read Harry Potter #1 and カエルの楽園, which turned out to be a politically motivated parable about Japanese rearmament. They were both at a great level for me. Currently I am reading ハツカネズミと人間 (Of Mice and Men) which was given to me by a friend. Next up is a book on eating one meal a day.