I loved this video especially 😂 it felt like a pep talk. And it was so nice to write these facts down to keep in mind as I struggle. You keep these things so relatable and real. Thank you again! Hope the rest of your week goes well!
I'm SO happy that this is a series. This is literally how much I want to know about someone's process and journey of reading in Japanese. Thanks so much for sharing! Your videos gave me the push I needed to just start and read :)
Dear Ally, thank you so much for answering my questions in such depth again. Your thoughts on it and sharing your whole experience with reading in Japanese as a beginner, has really helped me to rethink my own approach. Your absolutely right that increasing my reading volume is definitely necessary to ever get to that stage where I feel comfortable reading in that language. It was the same with my native language when I was a kid and it was the same with English. Thanks for the reminder. And thanks for also reminding me that at the beginning it is painful and sometimes not so much fun. But it’s the same for most people. Everyone has to go through it and avoiding it won’t help me with anything. So I finally started to read a few weeks back. I started with graded readers and I started to read them extensively - at least for the most part. And I must say although I still don’t enjoy every single one of them, I still came across some really interesting stories and it makes me proud to see the pileups of finished books ☺️ Thanks for your advice and this great series of videos you’ve created. They a really really helpful! ❤
have you ever reread the books you read extensively? i mean, since you probably didn’t understand the content 100%. do you reread them after a while (once you’ve gained more vocabulary through reading other books intensively)?
Rien ne peut me faire davantage plaisir ! Je n'ai rien à cacher et je souhaite inspirer une motivation sans faille chez tous les viewers qui seront réceptifs à mon message principal, qui est que tout le monde peut le faire ! 💫
Loved the video, basically going through this now as I jump into video games in Japanese and N2 level. The best advice I have for anyone is to reflect on how they learned to read in their native language, and the challenges they faced and what age they learned what skills. Because we all learned how to read once. I think that's the best way to find out what will work for Japanese - to act as if you're a child again learning how to read.
Thank you for always making inspiring videos that answer all the questions we didn't even know we had yet! :) I will be in Fukuoka in the fall and was wondering if you have some favorite bookstores that you'd recommend checking out in the area. I'm at about an N2 level and am hoping to get a few novels.
That's the advantage of looking back on the past as I'm doing in this series, because I am now able to answer the questions I did not even intellectualize back, when I was still struggling at beginner/intermediate level in the language, all in the hope that this will ease you guys' own journey with the language! For used books, you can check out any BookOff store you can find in the city (there are many outlets) :) For new books, in Fukuoka you have a few very good bookstores but I would recommend you the biggest ones which are the Junkudo bookstore in Tenjin area, the Tsutaya bookstore in Ropponmatsu area, and the Maruzen bookstore + Kinokuniya bookstore in the Hakata station mall!! If you don't find there all the books currently commercialized in the country, I honestly don't know where else you can look haha
Thank you for this wonderful info, right now I am learning other languages, but I do plan to learn Japanese in future and the script is really scaring me. It will be very punishing to get through it in beginning.
Another great video! Really enjoying your content ❤❤❤ Just recently finished my second book in japanese (even though studying the language since 2015😢) and struggled a lot because it was in Kansai dialect 😅 Have you read any book that was not 標準語, maybe also in some dialect? If so, did you try to still look up specific words or grammar ?
Yes I did make this experience, without specifically looking for it: one of the short stories by Murakami I have read recently was basically entirely made of dialogs in Kansai-ben, and yes I did look up certain words or structures to ascertain their equivalent in standard japanese :) this is the short story called「イエスタデイ」!
Absolutely, but maybe not the way you think: I found that the best way I could connect my reading comprehension to my listening comprehension was by reading aloud instead of only in my head! Especially since at the beginning, it takes very long to get the 'internal monologue' when reading in a foreign language :)
But what's your current level? Are you comfortable enough reading in japanese just as, for instance, in english? And what about listening? are you able to watch anime without subtitles?
This video is about how I got through the struggles of reading immersion when I first started reading, back in the year 2020, so yes my level has improved since then
@@arinoyume Tout d’abord, merci infiniment pour tes vidéos, j’ai dévoré la série des vidéos sur la lecture, des premiers livres. Ça m’a remonté à bloc pour continuer la lecture du japonais. Pour l’instant, je n’osais que lire les 10分で読める , mais tes vidéos m’ont motivé à aller plus loin. Du coup je me suis fait une commande des livres de la collection (角川つばさ文庫),. Par rapport à la réponse que tu as donnée plus haut, Pourrais-je te poser une question ? En effet, j’ai déjà essayé d’acheter des livres Kindle Japan, mais j’ai eu le message que je ne pouvais pas l’acheter depuis la France. Pourrais-tu me dire comment tu as fait ou le cas échéant en faire une vidéo ça pourrait être un bon sujet sur comment acheter sur Amazon Japan avec les petites astuces (Toujours cocher la case cadeau Pour la douane). Dernière petite chose, En début de vidéo, je crois avoir reconnu le tombeau des lucioles. Est-ce aussi un Kindle ? Car l’image est très propre et le défilement très sympa. J’ai pris la version 火垂るの墓 (徳間アニメ絵本) JP Oversized, mais ça m’intéresserait de l’avoir en numérique en bonne qualité. Pardon encore pour le pavé,
Coucou !! Merci de ton commentaire, et pour te répondre, je vais bientôt en parler en vidéo mais il existe effectivement des techniques bien particulières pour commander sur Amazon Japan, et tu peux trouver ces conseils dans cet article de Tofugu ici (www.tofugu.com/japanese/how-to-buy-japanese-ebooks/). Ensuite, pour le tombeau des lucioles, ce n'était pas ce que tu as vu dans la vidéo ! Peux-tu me donner le time code de ce à quoi tu fais référence pour que je te dise ce que c'était ? Et enfin, d'une manière générale, sache que tous mes e-books japonais proviennent d'Amazon Japan ! 👍🙂
I loved this video especially 😂 it felt like a pep talk. And it was so nice to write these facts down to keep in mind as I struggle. You keep these things so relatable and real. Thank you again! Hope the rest of your week goes well!
I'm SO happy that this is a series. This is literally how much I want to know about someone's process and journey of reading in Japanese. Thanks so much for sharing! Your videos gave me the push I needed to just start and read :)
🥹🥹🥹 so happy to hear this!!
Dear Ally, thank you so much for answering my questions in such depth again. Your thoughts on it and sharing your whole experience with reading in Japanese as a beginner, has really helped me to rethink my own approach. Your absolutely right that increasing my reading volume is definitely necessary to ever get to that stage where I feel comfortable reading in that language. It was the same with my native language when I was a kid and it was the same with English. Thanks for the reminder. And thanks for also reminding me that at the beginning it is painful and sometimes not so much fun. But it’s the same for most people. Everyone has to go through it and avoiding it won’t help me with anything. So I finally started to read a few weeks back. I started with graded readers and I started to read them extensively - at least for the most part. And I must say although I still don’t enjoy every single one of them, I still came across some really interesting stories and it makes me proud to see the pileups of finished books ☺️ Thanks for your advice and this great series of videos you’ve created. They a really really helpful! ❤
SUPER PROUD to hear that this series is ACTUALLY helpful, and you are so welcome my dear ❤️❤️❤️❤️
have you ever reread the books you read extensively? i mean, since you probably didn’t understand the content 100%. do you reread them after a while (once you’ve gained more vocabulary through reading other books intensively)?
Not yet but for some of them I do intend to do just that!!
Merci pour ton temps, les conseils et surtout ton honnêteté 😊
Je sors toujours de tes vidéos motivée !
Rien ne peut me faire davantage plaisir ! Je n'ai rien à cacher et je souhaite inspirer une motivation sans faille chez tous les viewers qui seront réceptifs à mon message principal, qui est que tout le monde peut le faire ! 💫
Yaaaay🎉 my main goal is to read Japanese literature : long way there but thank you for the tips!!
The road is long, but the destination is very rewarding! Keep at it, and I know for a fact that you will get there!
Thank you for answering my questions💞
Thank you for asking such interesting and thoughtful questions! I am very grateful!
Loved the video, basically going through this now as I jump into video games in Japanese and N2 level. The best advice I have for anyone is to reflect on how they learned to read in their native language, and the challenges they faced and what age they learned what skills. Because we all learned how to read once. I think that's the best way to find out what will work for Japanese - to act as if you're a child again learning how to read.
I agree!!
I love your channel and how you talk about your studyings ✨👏👏
Thank you so much!
YAAYY A NEW VID
your enthusiasm warms my heart 💝
girl i love your acc sm
Awwww thanks so much!!!
Thank you for always making inspiring videos that answer all the questions we didn't even know we had yet! :) I will be in Fukuoka in the fall and was wondering if you have some favorite bookstores that you'd recommend checking out in the area. I'm at about an N2 level and am hoping to get a few novels.
That's the advantage of looking back on the past as I'm doing in this series, because I am now able to answer the questions I did not even intellectualize back, when I was still struggling at beginner/intermediate level in the language, all in the hope that this will ease you guys' own journey with the language!
For used books, you can check out any BookOff store you can find in the city (there are many outlets) :)
For new books, in Fukuoka you have a few very good bookstores but I would recommend you the biggest ones which are the Junkudo bookstore in Tenjin area, the Tsutaya bookstore in Ropponmatsu area, and the Maruzen bookstore + Kinokuniya bookstore in the Hakata station mall!! If you don't find there all the books currently commercialized in the country, I honestly don't know where else you can look haha
@@arinoyume Amazing, thank you so much for the recommendations!! 😊
Thank you for this wonderful info, right now I am learning other languages, but I do plan to learn Japanese in future and the script is really scaring me. It will be very punishing to get through it in beginning.
Thank you for watching! I wish you the best of luck with your Japanese journey 😍
Another great video! Really enjoying your content ❤❤❤
Just recently finished my second book in japanese (even though studying the language since 2015😢) and struggled a lot because it was in Kansai dialect 😅 Have you read any book that was not 標準語, maybe also in some dialect? If so, did you try to still look up specific words or grammar ?
Yes I did make this experience, without specifically looking for it: one of the short stories by Murakami I have read recently was basically entirely made of dialogs in Kansai-ben, and yes I did look up certain words or structures to ascertain their equivalent in standard japanese :) this is the short story called「イエスタデイ」!
Did you notice that by reading more, your listening comprehension also improved to some extent?
Absolutely, but maybe not the way you think: I found that the best way I could connect my reading comprehension to my listening comprehension was by reading aloud instead of only in my head! Especially since at the beginning, it takes very long to get the 'internal monologue' when reading in a foreign language :)
@@arinoyumeoh good tip lol thanks 🙏🏽 a new video idea btw: the books you read in Japanese ranked by difficulty level !!!
@@coconutmilch2351 OHHHH what a great idea!!! thank you so much 🤩🤩🤩
@@arinoyumethank YOU!! I love your Japanese content hehe
Je lutte perpétuellement pour abandonner l'intensive reading aaaaah
Je te conseillerais d’augmenter ton volume de lecture (beaucoup) quand tu pourras, et ça devrait régler ce souci de résistance 🥰💕
@@arinoyume mais je pense qu’en fait je voudrais juste continuer à faire pareil 😂😂 je vais devoir réapprendre du vocabulaire surtout snif
But what's your current level? Are you comfortable enough reading in japanese just as, for instance, in english? And what about listening? are you able to watch anime without subtitles?
This video is about how I got through the struggles of reading immersion when I first started reading, back in the year 2020, so yes my level has improved since then
Where do you read raw Manga and novel online if you might have?
Nowadays I only use Amazon kindle Japan for my digital books! 📚
@@arinoyume
Tout d’abord, merci infiniment pour tes vidéos, j’ai dévoré la série des vidéos sur la lecture, des premiers livres. Ça m’a remonté à bloc pour continuer la lecture du japonais.
Pour l’instant, je n’osais que lire les 10分で読める , mais tes vidéos m’ont motivé à aller plus loin.
Du coup je me suis fait une commande des livres de la collection (角川つばさ文庫),.
Par rapport à la réponse que tu as donnée plus haut, Pourrais-je te poser une question ?
En effet, j’ai déjà essayé d’acheter des livres Kindle Japan, mais j’ai eu le message que je ne pouvais pas l’acheter depuis la France.
Pourrais-tu me dire comment tu as fait ou le cas échéant en faire une vidéo ça pourrait être un bon sujet sur comment acheter sur Amazon Japan avec les petites astuces (Toujours cocher la case cadeau Pour la douane).
Dernière petite chose, En début de vidéo, je crois avoir reconnu le tombeau des lucioles. Est-ce aussi un Kindle ? Car l’image est très propre et le défilement très sympa.
J’ai pris la version 火垂るの墓 (徳間アニメ絵本) JP Oversized, mais ça m’intéresserait de l’avoir en numérique en bonne qualité.
Pardon encore pour le pavé,
Coucou !! Merci de ton commentaire, et pour te répondre, je vais bientôt en parler en vidéo mais il existe effectivement des techniques bien particulières pour commander sur Amazon Japan, et tu peux trouver ces conseils dans cet article de Tofugu ici (www.tofugu.com/japanese/how-to-buy-japanese-ebooks/). Ensuite, pour le tombeau des lucioles, ce n'était pas ce que tu as vu dans la vidéo ! Peux-tu me donner le time code de ce à quoi tu fais référence pour que je te dise ce que c'était ? Et enfin, d'une manière générale, sache que tous mes e-books japonais proviennent d'Amazon Japan ! 👍🙂
@@arinoyume C’était pendant l’intro ;)
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