Re: Unexpected benefit of studying Japanese ^====^

elsie wrote:
> "The Wanderer" <inverseparadox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> > Just keep going, no matter how slow the progress may seem; you'll pick
> > up more and more as you go along. I've almost never done more than that,
> > and except for most kanji (working on it...) and a few parts of the
> > grammar, all I'm missing now is vocabulary and practice. ^_^
> >
>
> My epiphany came this weekend reading Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. Delrey
> often puts a couple of untranslated pages from the next volume as an omake.
> As I was looking at the dialogue bubbles, I looked one with the hiragana for
> ha and i and recognized it as Syaoron saying "hai." It was the first time in
> reading where I looked at the word, knew the hiragana, and knew the word of
> dialogue being expressed.
>
> I'm concentrating on hiragana at this point as a way of building vocabulary
> and reading ability. My five-year goal is to apply for and get a Fulbright
> fellowship in Japan. Depending on the fellowship you need to demonstrate a
> certain level of language familiarity. While I'd like to sign up for a
> course, the closest one is at Virginia Tech and is always full, so there's
> no room for non-degree students. My own university doesn't offer the course.
>
> laurie

Untranslated manga with Hiragana (that's where all of the Kanji used
has Hiragana characters above or to the side of the Kanji for
pronunciation purposes) is good practice reading IMO.

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