{"id":991,"date":"2008-10-02T02:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T09:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=991"},"modified":"2008-11-07T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T15:40:44","slug":"japanese-reading-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/japanese-reading-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese reading material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7308.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-992\" title=\"mangajin 23 harry potter nihongo\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7308.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_7308-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After several months of off and on reading (I didn&#8217;t bring the book with me to Europe during the summer when I was away for more than six weeks) I have finished \u30cf\u30ea\u30fc\u30fb\u30dd\u30c3\u30bf\u30fc\u3068\u79d8\u5bc6\u306e\u90e8\u5c4b. This was the first book I have read in Japanese in almost twenty years. Clocking in at almost 500 pages, I feel like I&#8217;ve accomplished something.<\/p>\n<p>Although daunting at the outset, the reading was actually not that difficult and quite enjoyable. In addition, I picked up some new vocabulary\/<em>kanji<\/em> and had a great review of other vocabulary, grammar, and <em>kanji<\/em>. Not all of the things learned will come in handy. After all, how often will I need to use words like \u5c4b\u6577\u3057\u3082\u3079\u5996\u7cbe (house elf), \u6756 (wand), or \u307b\u3068\u3093\u3069\u9996\u7121\u3057\u30cb\u30c3\u30af (Nearly Headless Nick) in real life? But overall this was a very enjoyable studying routine. I plan to continue it by reading a Japanese book on a daily basis from here on out (in addition to <em>Mangajin<\/em>, <em>Nihongo Journal<\/em>, and other things).<\/p>\n<p>The Harry Potter book had <em>furigana<\/em> next to all of the <em>kanji<\/em>. For my next read I plan to read something without the <em>furigana<\/em> crutches. It will probably be slower going, but that is the norm while in Japan which is what I&#8217;m preparing for.<\/p>\n<p>I also finished <em>Mangajin<\/em> #23 as well. If you are interested in purchasing either of these items from me (or the <a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/japanese-learning-materials-for-sale-or-trade\/\">other things previously mentioned<\/a>) make me an offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of off and on reading (I didn&#8217;t bring the book with me to Europe during the summer when I was away for more than six weeks) I have finished \u30cf\u30ea\u30fc\u30fb\u30dd\u30c3\u30bf\u30fc\u3068\u79d8\u5bc6\u306e\u90e8\u5c4b. This was the first book I have read in Japanese in almost twenty years. Clocking in at almost 500 pages, I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[89,27,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}