Hi everyone,
I'm making this post cause recently, while my ability to read through Japanese content has significantly improved, I still feel somewhat frustrated. Let me explain.
So basically I am currently reading around 10 pages a day of the light novel ようこそ実力至上主義の教室へ (Classroom of the Elite). It takes me around 10 minutes per page (including the time I spend creating flashcards for new vocab and looking up various things). While I acknowledge this is already a rather good time per page considering that I am reading in a foreign language, I am looking to improve. I know if I want to actually build some literary culture in Japanese one day, I can't just read 10 pages a day.
My idea right now is to maybe reduce the time I spend creating flashcards cause considering that there are between 3-4 words I don't know per page, it takes a bunch of time to write a whole card and copy the context sentence manually (reading on Bookwalker so I don't think I can use Yomitan). Maybe I could just write the word and screw the context sentence.
Other idea is to spend less time overanalyzing sentences. Sometimes when I struggle to understand a sentence, I lose time pondering way too much about it while I could just keep reading and use the context to help me figure out the meaning retrospectively. A good example of this is when I struggled to understand how the word パレット was used in a sentence while, if I had read the next sentence, I would have understood it is merely the name of a place the characters are talking about.
What do you guys think about these ideas ? Feel free to discuss them and give me your own tips that got you to read more efficiently in Japanese.
by GibonDuGigroin