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How literate in Japanese do you have to be to read LNs?

>> No.9140972

Good question

>> No.9141008

They're "light" novels so it probably only has basic kanji and pretty easy to read. i'm not sure though to maybe im wrong

>> No.9141027

Well, anything can be called a "Light Novel" if the author feels like it.

>> No.9141034

I find overseas interest in light novels amusing. It's like Japanese people scanning and translating Goosebumps and Nancy Drew.

>> No.9141037

>>9141034
Animorphs was pure gold, though.

>> No.9141040

Wow OP, I was asking myself this the whole day today!

I'm guessing you'd have to know all basic kanji (2000) and maybe the odd one here or there.

>> No.9141042

>>9141034
fuck you i love goosebumps

>> No.9141046

Katakana and ~3500 kanji. Skip hiragana and vocabulary

>> No.9141069

>>9141034
Except light novels are waaaay deeper than the fucking shit Western countries crap out.

>> No.9141074

>>9141069
They're aimed at teenagers who can't read, d00d.

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>>9141069

>> No.9141078

Fuck yeah, Goosebumps.

http://youtu.be/LvrCoDZUwRg

>> No.9141132

>>9140956
They literally use sound effects in their books to avoid having to describe things. I'd say you don't need that much kanji knowledge.

>> No.9141139

>>9141069
Oh wow.

>> No.9141145

>>9141069

No, that's about spot on

>> No.9141151

>>9141042
Are there any LN series like Goosebumps where it's a series of shorts, with the occasional twist ending?

>> No.9141152

>>9141034
I thought LNs were more like YA novels in the West (Hunger Games, Harry Potter and a billion different shitty vampire novels), surely there are Japanese who like reading those right?

>> No.9141154

>>9141069
I don't care if it's a fucking troll. I'm so mad right now.
Fuck you.

>> No.9141159

>>9141154
Take a deep breath.

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>>9141159
I can't. I know there are people out there who think like this.

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>>9141069
The greatest romance of our generation.

>> No.9141192

>>9141179
Airi > Hinata >>>Tomoka > Saki = Mahou

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>>9141074
>>9141139
>>9141145
>>9141178
>>9141154
>>9141179
I'm proud of you guys. Least weaboo board on 4chan.

>> No.9141197

>>9140956
It will depend on the author and target audience, but there tends to be more furigana.

It varies quite a lot, though. Nishio Ishin's Zaregoto series that I'm reading right now will use words like 掌紋 without any furigana, and when they have a word that DOES have furigana like 我儘 (I had no idea this even had kanji) they only put it once for the entire volume.

On the other hand, Haganai will gloss 俺 every time it appears on a new page. It's easy enough to find these novels online, you should download one and check it out for yourself.

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>>9141192
You're ordering by breast sizes their, aren't you? I mean, otherwise you'd have to be some sort of faggot to have Maho-maho as your least favorite.

>> No.9141234

Kanji isn't the main barrier to reading large texts. Reading Kanji is as simple as looking up the radical or putting it into handwriting recognition. The hard part comes with understanding grammar, which takes time and experience.

>> No.9141231

>>9141193
It's called discernment. You're welcome, xxazNpride69xx.

>> No.9141236

>>9141179
>>9141221
tinkerbell?

>> No.9141244

>>9141236
Yes, that's the artist. They do some very nice works.

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>> No.9141254

>Kanji isn't the main barrier to reading large texts. Reading Kanji is as simple as looking up the radical or putting it into handwriting recognition.

Why don't you see how long it takes to read a large text if you have to look up every other kanji by radical.

>> No.9141265

>>9141254
If you have to look up every other kanji just to read, it's very unlikely that your grammar is in a place where you can properly understand what it's saying on the whole.

Kanji barriers are surprisingly easy to overcome.They're nothing but memorization, there is no deeper understanding to them. Understanding the difference between two grammar patterns is something that isn't nearly as easy to explain, and often dissolves into something flimsy like "it adds more emphasis".

>> No.9141271

>>9141265
Note that I'm talking specifically about novels and other larger works. In a manga or something with more dialog and short sentences, etc, kanji may be a greater barrier.

But ultimately, what I'm trying to say is that everyone who asks "hey, I need an easy thing to read, what has a lot of furigana" is missing the point. If you want to read things quickly and fluidly, in the end, kanji will not be your biggest hurdle. You'll have to bite the bullet and look them all up or learn them systematically at some point.

>> No.9141945

Whats the difference between a light novel and a regular novel

>> No.9141958

>>9141945
It's the difference between reading The Berenstain Bears and Finnegans Wake.

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