Anyone here read the novel 君の名は?
I want to just read this book and only this book. It will be my first novel and big fan of the movie. I just started doing around 3-4 pages a day actively learning the words and grammar points that I dont know.
Up to around 15 pages done now.
But, in my experience, this book is a heavy hitter on how the words are used that you dont see in textbooks like:
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足を運ぶ "to carry feet" -> to walk
(instead of 歩く or 散歩する) -
シリアス深刻な表情: the word serious is written once in katakana and then in kanji (shinkoku). To describe the serious ernst of the information.
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身を起こす : literally to move the body. In other words "to wake up" instead of 起きる.
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Even the first sentence: 懐かしい声と匂い、愛おし光と温度。(A distant voice and smell, a beloved light and warmth).
Man, i fried my brain over this sentence just because I never seen the word 温度 (temperature) outside of scripted weather forecasts and just the words lumped together. I couldn't place a translation on it.
And there are 100's of these in the book. It really makes you work with the words you already know and see them with different nuances. There is a lot of searching up to do but learning this way really makes it stick for me even though progress goes slow.
There is a lot of feeling in every word. The amounts of onomatopeia in conjunction with nouns can make a whole other feeling or sentence.
And the long ass sentences make you work with your understanding of grammar.
I also have the audiobook that i listen mostly at night. And sometimes simultaneously. I really wanna be able to understand every sentence in this book from beginning to end and not just 60%. For now my shortcomings is vocab and its usage. Grammar and listening are fine.
What was your experience with it? Did it improve your reading, grammar, vocab a lot?
How long did it took you? …
by ZetDee