Lately, I’ve been spending some time trying to improve my writing skills in Japanese, which definitely needs some more work. What’s the first step to improving writing skills? By reading of course! So I’ll be sharing with you guys what I’m reading right now on the internet.<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying to find some interesting short stories on this online literature magazine called \u300c\u7834\u6ec5\u6ce2\u300d<\/a>. I just learned a new expression today: \u300c\u97f3\u3092\u4e0a\u3052\u308b\u300d and here \u300c\u97f3\u300d is read as \u300c\u306d\u300d not \u300c\u304a\u3068\u300d. It’s from a story called \u300c\u50d5\u306f\u30ac\u30fc\u30c9\u30de\u30f3\u300d<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u30ac\u30fc\u30c9\u30de\u30f3\u3068\u3044\u3046\u4ed5\u4e8b\u306f\u8089\u4f53\u7684\u306b\u3082\u7cbe\u795e\u7684\u306b\u3082\u3068\u3066\u3082\u75b2\u308c\u308b\u3002\u30a2\u30eb\u30d0\u30a4\u30c8\u60c5\u5831\u8a8c\u3067\u6642\u7d66\u306e\u9ad8\u3055\u306b\u60f9\u304b\u308c\u3066\u3084\u3063\u3066\u306f\u307f\u305f\u3082\u306e\u306e\u3001\u3042\u307e\u308a\u306e\u904e\u9177\u3055\u306b\u97f3\u3092\u4e0a\u3052\u308b<\/u>\u6bce\u65e5\u3060\u3063\u305f\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unfortunately, it’s in Flash so I’ve been using the IME drawing pad<\/a> to look up Kanji.<\/p>\n One word I thought might be tricky is on page 8:<\/p>\n \u3053\u308c\u306f\u5bfe\u5fdc\u3092\u8aa4\u308b\u3068\u5927\u4e8b<\/u>\u306b\u306a\u308b\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Here, a group of yakuza is approaching the guardman. By context, \u300c\u5927\u4e8b\u300d doesn’t mean “important” and instead should mean “a big matter” so it should be read as \u300c\u304a\u304a\u3054\u3068\u300d and not \u300c\u3060\u3044\u3058\u300d.<\/p>\n It’s a fairly short story in an ordinary everyday life setting about how the supposed best people in society act in the worst way and vice-versa.<\/p>\n New Kanji (for me): \u61a4\u61e3<\/u> Feel free to share any interesting reading you’ve come across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, I’ve been spending some time trying to improve my writing skills in Japanese, which definitely needs some more work. What’s the first step to improving writing skills? By reading of course! So I’ll be sharing with you guys what … Continue reading
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\nMy rating: 3\/5 stars<\/p>\n