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Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:31:03 2010 No.6243295 [Reply] [Original]

Good evening /jp/,

In order the extend my vocabulary and get a better intuition for the language in general, I'm looking for some (very) simple Japanese literature. It should have lot's of furigana, be neither too formal nor too colloquial and have a nice mix between spoken and written language.

How do light novels fare in this? Not being a endless series would be plus, as it's probably going to take me forever to finish even one book.
Manga would probably work as well, the strong emphasis on spoken language with few connected sentences as left me clueless as to what to look for though.

Could you recommend me some nice reading material?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:38:03 2010 No.6243328 >In order the extend my vocabulary and get a better intuition >lot's lol. Have fun not being able to understand what ぎゃあぁぁ means from some random manga, because Google Translate will shit on you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:38:03 2010 No.6243330 >lot's

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:41:03 2010 No.6243348 /jp/ is not about learning japanese or japanese literature >>>/lang/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:43:03 2010 No.6243367 OP you're going to have to understand every word literally before you even get into the 1 billion idioms.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:44:03 2010 No.6243372 >lot's Well, I'm fucking tired... >>6243328 I don't intent to use Google Translate. For obvious reasons I wouldn't even try to look up ぎゃあぁぁ in a dictionary.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:44:03 2010 No.6243373 Read Yotsuba&! http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/04/28/yotsuba-to-%E2%80%93-ideal-manga-for-learning-japanese/ Incidentally, I'm amused by how different Artefact's writing style was back then. He almost sounds like a pleasant, humble human being.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:52:03 2010 No.6243405 >>>/lang/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:52:03 2010 No.6243406 >>6243373 God I hate that guy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 16:53:03 2010 No.6243412 >>6243373 Yeah, it's easy but there are barely any sentences that are a bit more complex, let alone multiple of those at once.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 17:51:03 2010 No.6243687 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breaking-into-Japanese-Literature-Classics/dp/4770028997/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8& amp;s=books&qid=1286401882&sr=8-1

Anonymous Wed Oct 6 17:58:03 2010 No.6243721

I was going to suggest a parallel reader in the vein of :

>>6243687

...but not that one in particular. I find most of it pretty dry and Souseki's short stories have no point. I broke off working my way through that book and started with "Read Real Japanese" instead and I've enjoyed it much more.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Read-Real-Japanese-Essays-Contemporary/dp/4770030576/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&
ie=UTF8&qid=1286402140&sr=1-2

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 6 18:40:03 2010 No.6243924 >>6243687 >>6243721 Thanks, that looks interesting.

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