/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18117549]

Anyone have some book recommendations to help you better understand Japanese? Or should i just be watching anime? I can't get into manga

[Anonymous No.18117595]

ooohhh! Infinutu Jesturuu!!

[Anonymous No.18117612]

>>18117595
へえ!

[Anonymous No.18117682]

>>18117549
A lot of Japanese classics rely on poetic prose unique to the language and entirely impenetrable for any learner, so I would suggest you leave those for later and pick your poison between visual novels or comics, or light novels.
Even basic children books like 吾輩は猫である rely on the kind of prose that's impregnable to even some native adults, not to say anything of poetry like 春と修羅 or 在りし日の歌.
Best of luck.

[Anonymous No.18117755]

>>18117682
What are your favorite VNs

[Anonymous No.18117813]

>>18117755
Kusarihime and Muramasa. Wouldn't recommend them to a beginner though.

[Anonymous No.18117824]

>>18117813
Which ones for a beginner then?

[Anonymous No.18117850]

>>18117824
Maybe Subahibi or Sakura no Uta? Their use of language isn't too complex most of the time. Same for Sumaga, Oretsuba, etc.

[Anonymous No.18117890]

>>18117850
>Subahibi
Um based?

[Anonymous No.18117919]

>>18117890
Let's get it in the canon

[Anonymous No.18117937]

unironically learn it from youtube
https://youtube.com/c/JapaneseAmmowithMisa
https://youtube.com/c/MATTvsJapan
https://youtube.com/channel/UCsQCbl3a9FtYvA55BxdzYiQ
https://youtube.com/user/Dogen

[Anonymous No.18117944]

>>18117755
>>18117813
WA2 is unironically great as well, but I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner. Why can't you read manga again?

[Anonymous No.18118360]

>>18117850
I'm reading this right now and it's been great so far, I love the cultural foundation it's built on with the paintings and season-related stuff.
>>18117890
Subahibi's structure is actually surprisingly interesting, I just finished reading it earlier this week and enjoyed it a ton.

[Anonymous No.18118394]

>>18117850
>Sumaga, Oretsuba
>>18117813
>Kusarihime
According to vndb these have lolicon, is it that bad/can be avoided?

[Anonymous No.18118395]

>>18117549
>likes reading books without images
>can't read books with images
How? If anything, manga should be easier than literature

[Anonymous No.18118834]

>>18117549
At what level can I begin reading Japanese stuff like Dazai? Currently studying for N3 rn.

[Anonymous No.18118950]

>>18117595
Lol

[Anonymous No.18118961]

>>18117549

[Anonymous No.18119173]

>>18117682
>Even basic children books like 吾輩は猫である
That's not a children's book, but children are made to read it in school.
>rely on the kind of prose that's impregnable to even some native adults
Anyone who is literate can read Soseki. He's not even that hard. You must unironically be talking to the equivalent of Americans who have difficulty with Jack London.

Overall horrible advice. OP, how good are you right now? How fluently can you read Modern Japanese? Can you read this (taken from the nearest book at hand, which happens to be on the Constitution):
日本国民は、正当に選挙された国会における代表者を通じて行動し、われらとわれらの子孫のために、諸国民との協和による成果と、わが国全土にわたって自由のもたらす恵沢を確保し、政府の行為によって再び戦争の惨禍が起ることのないようにすることを決意し、ここに主権が国民に存することw宣言し、この憲法を確定する。

[Anonymous No.18119226]

learn a european language rather than some retarded oriental one.

[Anonymous No.18119440]

>>18119173
> Know 90% of the listed kanji
> Don't know the specific words.

[Anonymous No.18119470]

>>18119440
That might be because you've been reading slop. Look up every single word and reread until you understand it properly.