2011-05-12, 07:45 | Link #502 |
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I honestly a huge fan of Light Novels, always loved books but I'm not to sure what level of Japanese I need to be at the read one. Any useful tips or easy books.
BTW I'm about to take the next JLPT 5 test almost been studying for 2 years.
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2011-05-12, 17:45 | Link #503 | |
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2011-05-12, 21:53 | Link #504 | |
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At N5, your grammar is too weak and will cause you to misunderstand a lot of stuff. You should be at least N4 level with a denshi jisho (more convenient than a traditional dictionary, I find). This is really minimum wage but will give you basic grammar foundation, including sonkeigo, but you will have difficulty with combination particles / fixed expressions, and your vocab will be insufficient. But if you're still actively studying then, this will help you improve by leaps and bounds, since it exposes you to contextual usage of different vocabulary. Go for simple novels with lots of dialogue and furigana. It may be slow going, since you need to look up words, but not impossible. Avoid novels with a lot of narration, especially with very bombastic adjectives, few furigana, and a lot of cultural references and zokugo (this is actually debatable, since you don't really learn zokugo in academic classes). Particularly, you should avoid Shakugan no Shana, Chrome Shelled Regios, Monogatari series, Rental Magica. Baka test, Infinite Stratos, Denyuuden, Itsuten, are the considerably easy ones. If you want to read LNs comfortably, you should be preferably at N2 and up levels |
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2011-05-12, 22:59 | Link #505 | |
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I'd also recommend using a flashcard program like Anki to learn kanji in a systematic way - it's time consuming at first, but totally worth it because you really don't want to be looking up every third word when reading. For data, I personally used a set of kanji books directed at Japanese students, but if you take Patrick(apr)'s recommendation of starting with easy manga, you can add common kanji compounds as you encounter them.
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2011-05-13, 06:57 | Link #506 |
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So is that a give an easier one a try or wait until I improve... Anyway I have began learning some of the N4 stuff since I should have been able to take N5 last year. I was thinking I might be able to improve my reading and vocab.
Like my signature says I'll make it possible. And give it a shot. Another question, do you need to learn cultural references for JLPT
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2011-05-13, 11:18 | Link #507 | |
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you're not tested on cultural references. only vocab, kanji, grammar, listening, and reading comprehension, the later which will increase tenfold at the higher levels. all are MCQs. though some of the courses I have attended in the past have short essay writing and speaking components. you can purchase past year papers at major bookstores or online to get a feel of the format. |
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2011-05-13, 19:11 | Link #509 | |
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Yeah I find Japanese much easier than mandarin too....I have yet to take the N2 exam and I find that I can still get by the reading of LNs without too much severe diffculty...
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2011-05-13, 23:40 | Link #510 |
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Well, Japanese grammar is much more difficult than Chinese, but mastery wise, I also think Chinese is more difficult(especially when you learn to speak ><). Unless you decide to learn ancient Japanese form and speak every variety of keigo that is.
Anyway, finished reading the first volume or Rakuin no Monsho. I recommend this for people who like story about medieval fantasy adventure story. Protagonist got bone, unlike many other light novel protagonist, and he also uses his brain. Main heroine is likable too, but that's subjective I guess. |
2011-05-14, 09:25 | Link #511 | |
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and finally, interest plays a part too. |
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2011-05-14, 09:32 | Link #512 |
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... I can't tell which is easier, I think grammer wise Chinese is much more straightforward far less strings attached. However I suck at chinese even though its my mother-tougue. So my vocabulary level is sort of even but in terms of listening and speaking I'm much better in Chinese. This is making me wish I was originally good at chinese, although it helps in recognize alot of words, I don't know the kana for the word which i find makes it hard to find in a dictionary.
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2011-05-14, 11:35 | Link #513 | |
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My reason for interest is purely from this post. Supposedly the main guy has 中二病, and the little sister isn't blood related (not spoiler cause it's in the character's introduction anyway) and are my most recent favorite and most wanted to read, so you can probably guess why I'm interested in the first place (besides the points mentioned). Yes, I read all genres ... some are less refined than the others <__<. |
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2011-05-14, 13:53 | Link #516 | |
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2011-05-14, 16:13 | Link #517 | |
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Now that I finally finished all my finals, I have the choices of marathoning Itsuka Tenma, DRRR (season 2 where?), Bacanno, Dai Denyuuden, Rakuin no Monsho, Misumaruka Koukoku Monogatari (why is manga sooo slowwww), IS, Haganai, actually finishing Kabuki/Hanamonogatari, Hitsugi no Chayka, or read Mahou Shoujo Risuka among my huge backlog anime, manga, and mystery novels (Souji Shimada ftw). Life is good . |
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