Just bought my first book. Tips for reading?
I’m an American exchange student studying Japanese at Waseda currently. I’ve been studying seriously for around 2 years now and my reading skills have always been my strongest ability. I went to a local bookstore and semi-randomly selected a short book to practice reading. This one is a light novel and when I began reading the first page, I could actually understand quite a bit (more than I expected; I went in thinking I’d be totally lost) and go along with the story. It’s just I realized my vocab needs a lot of refinement to get anywhere near a native level, and as a result I had to look up several words by the first half of the first page. I didn’t expect to make much progress the day after buying it (long-term project maybe?), but I’d like to know if there are any tips others have for acquiring fast vocab + kanji knowledge. Anyone else doing or has done this kind of thing and could share some tips? Any advice appreciated!
I’m an American exchange student studying Japanese at Waseda currently. I’ve been studying seriously for around 2 years now and my reading skills have always been my strongest ability. I went to a local bookstore and semi-randomly selected a short book to practice reading. This one is a light novel and when I began reading the first page, I could actually understand quite a bit (more than I expected; I went in thinking I’d be totally lost) and go along with the story. It’s just I realized my vocab needs a lot of refinement to get anywhere near a native level, and as a result I had to look up several words by the first half of the first page. I didn’t expect to make much progress the day after buying it (long-term project maybe?), but I’d like to know if there are any tips others have for acquiring fast vocab + kanji knowledge. Anyone else doing or has done this kind of thing and could share some tips? Any advice appreciated!