Learn Japanese With Novels: A Beginner's Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- If you're a beginner learning Japanese, Japanese books and novels might seem out of reach. However, these novels are filled with precious and interesting vocabulary and grammar. In this video, I’ll guide you through a 4-step progression to start using any Japanese book, regardless of your current level, until you can fully enjoy it.
But make no mistake, it's no piece of cake; it requires a lot of work and time. Having a real Japanese book in your hands can significantly boost your motivation to learn Japanese, presenting a tangible challenge you’ll want to overcome.
Have you ever read any Japanese novel? Let me know in the comments!
In this video, I use "Yakō Kanransha" (夜光観覧車) by Kanae Minato (湊かなえ), published by Futabasha (双葉社) in 2010, as an example. Future videos will include more Japanese book recommendations and interesting vocabulary you can learn from them. If Japanese novels in their original language interest you, subscribe and see you in the next video!
Chapters:
00:00 - Video Overview
00:40 - Hidden Benefits Of Reading Japanese Novels
06:03 - Progression Order - Step 1
08:45 - Progression Order - Step 2
09:59 - Progression Order - Step 3
13:12 - Progression Order - Step 4
17:46 - It's A Never Ending Journey
Hello, UA-camr. It was good to get insight from your video. From the next video, I would like to know about the experience living in Japan.
I don't usually leave commentaries on videos but I just wanted to post one on this one because I find that it's a really helpful one. Sure the content is not the best video quality or the sayings clear in one go every time but it speaks from true experience and I think this is one of the best "how to master japanese" videos. I do read almost everyday nhk Web made easy but it lacks difficulties some time. The eye catches too easily the furiganas. I still gave konbini women to finish. I think I'll restart it thanks to this video. I'll let you know when it's finished and how it helped me. If no answers for me it surely is because I didn't follow my challenge all the way. Either way thanks for the video 🙌
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment! I'm really glad to hear that you found the video helpful. It's great that you are planning to restart konbini women (I didn't know about it sounds interesting and I think I want to read it too), and I'd love to hear how it goes! I also appreciate your honest feedback regarding video quality, etc. Everything is very new for me, and I will definitely work on improving these aspects in future videos. Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts 🙏
Good video.
Thanks!
I think this is great, the only thing for me is that I find myself not knowing how to look up kanji I don't know (if furigana is not used). What do you suggest? I just use apps and dictionaries, but it tires me out because I might spend so much time searching:(
I feel you, that sure takes more time than we want :(. You can use a Japanese handwritten keyboard if you haven't yet, but if that doesn't work for you, you can try to take a picture of the page and have it changed to text, this way you can copy the relevant part and check in Google (or bing, whatever) really quickly. I use Android and Google lens does that very well. I don't know much about iPhone but I'm sure there are apps that do that too. I hope that helps !
i know like 800 kanji and have average grammar. intermediate level i suppose. any good book recommendations? i probs would enjoy history or mystery books the most. bonus points if i can have them ship to Australia
Hi ! I don't know about history, but for mystery I really like Higashino Keigo. I'm not sure if intermediate, but I think he uses very straightforward Japanese. The last 2 I read from him were プラチナデータ (about the use of DNA data by the government) and utsuro na juujika (虚ろな十字架, about the death penalty in Japan) . Not sure about where to buy books that ship to Australia, but found there's a kinokuniya there that has lots of Japanese books, also this bookstore called Hondarake? It seems they even have a copy of プラチナデータ in stock. Hope you can find and enjoy these novels!
@@Tamagotochannel thank you so much!