/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

So I've been studying Japanese for the last six months, and I've gotten to a point where I can understand most spoken japanese unless it's a less... normal subject(any science, sci-fi etc).

On the reading/writing side, I have about 700 kanji's in my active repertoire and I guess about 200 more that I somewhat recognize. Up to this point, I have been relying on the two Genki books and Basic Kanji Book vol 1 and 2.

Thing is, now that I feel kinda done with those, where do I go from here? I've tried reading visuals but it's a bit too hard without furigana, I would read manga's, but I've only found really bad scans(small size/bad quality) for raws and my eyes kinda hurt from looking at them.

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

Just buy some shonen manga magazines. If there's a Japanese-style conbini near you, they usually sell them.

[Anonymous No.]

>I've only found really bad scans(small size/bad quality) for raws and my eyes kinda hurt from looking at them.
I tried getting One Piece raws and they were indeed super shitty, impossible to read the kanji with all those artifacts. (preemptive "fuck you, one piece is awesome and its japanese level is easy", before anyone quotes me and links me to a)

Why don't you try a VN that's fully voiced? that way you won't need furigana. Something like Clannad. You can even replay the sentences.

[Anonymous No.]

if it's just a problem with the scans, buy some used manga. the half-priced books near me always has some manga on the shelves and they're only $1-3 each. (good luck getting a complete series, though)

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now learn a real language like mandarin

[Anonymous No.]

>>8536357
chinaboo plz go

[Anonymous No.]

If you liked having a textbook a la Genki, there's another book called Tobira that I'm using now. Has some longer readings that are nice practice and also has a shitload of vocab. The grammar sections tend to not be major parts of speech that you're missing (like how genki introduces -て form), but more situation dependent things (like fifteen more ways to use ように).

As for REAL stuff, I'm kinda stuck, too. I checked out a book from my university's library in Japanese, but while most of the grammar makes sense, there are so many kanji I don't know that it takes forever just to get through a page. While I'm learning a lot, the pace is so slow that it barely feels like I'm accomplishing anything.

Guess I just have to face the sad truth that I know less kanji than a middle schooler and start looking for children's books.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>8537370
order some Japanese elementary school /junior school kanji school books from Japan.

they are pretty cheap

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>>8537674
forgot trip