Re: Need help choosing a novel to read
From: Chris Kern (chriskern99_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/12/05
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:47:24 +0900
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:59:09 -0000, "Paul Blay"
<ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> posted the following:
>"Gavin Steyn" wrote ...
>
>> I'm looking for some recommendations that will push my Japanese boundaries a
>> bit, in addition to being good (that is, I enjoy Murakami, for example (and
>> plan to read more), but reading his novels isn't going to push my Japanese
>> up to a higher level).
>I /liked/ the Harry Potter books - but I don't know that they'd be that good to
>learn from because the Japanese is probably the 'wrong sort of odd'.
I just finished the first Harry Potter book in Japanese today. Not so
bad because I had already read it in English and was familiar with a
lot of the more "rare" vocabulary from "other sources". Especially if
you've read them in English and enjoyed them it's worth a shot.
I actually saw a fair bit of JLPT 1-kyuu grammar in the book and quite
a bit of 2-kyuu grammar so it's not completely worthless either. As
usual with fantasy-type books, the vast majority of the vocabulary is
normal, everyday words, and the "fantasy" stuff are usually either
katakana loan words or kanji compounds which you can guess.
-Chris
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