r/LearnJapanese • u/Kasumiiiiiii • 5d ago

Practice Reading Practice

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I need to read more and after completing the Kanji Kentei 8級 (ES grade 3), my husband bought me the How To Train Your Dragon series in Japanese ヒックとドラゴン. My goal is to read everyday for 20 minutes, so around 5 pages. It's not a lot, but I have kids and a house to keep and other studying to do. Lots of vocab I didn't know in the first chapter, but the difficult kanji has furigana. The grammar was fine.

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u/saoj123 4d ago

The font of the katakana on the cover is really cool

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u/Kasumiiiiiii 4d ago

The book has excerpts and the map written in that font! I like it too

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u/DryButterfly6350 4d ago

Passing a kanji test made for third graders and then still meeting lots of new words in chapter one is a very honest picture of learning Japanese. Five pages a day with kids and a house to run will add up fast.

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u/Kasumiiiiiii 4d ago

After the exam, I was feeling pretty confident and then I started reading and I was like "okay I know half that word..." lol

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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS 4d ago

I'll bet if you keep with this for a while you will be able to finish more than 5 pages in 20 minutes.

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u/Kasumiiiiiii 4d ago

Yeah.... My kids are 4 and 1 so right now, I sit down, and they're climbing all over me so unless they grow up before December...

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u/RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS 3d ago

I just meant to be encouraging about the fact your reading speed will improve with consistent practice. Not really sure what you mean to imply by this reply but my kid is also four.

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u/Fancy_Control_7285 4d ago

Nice! Have fun :]

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u/songbird516 4d ago

Neat! I loved reading those to my boys in English; I bet there's a lot of fun adjectives to learn in Japanese 😂

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u/Kasumiiiiiii 4d ago

The descriptions of Gober so far are pretty hilarious

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u/Relevant_Can_4355 3d ago

do they keep the english names or does hiccup get localized into something else entirely