Comments on J-List side blog: Manga and Learning Japanese

I have to agree with you about manga being a very ...

2008-11-24T23:41:00.000+09:00

I have to agree with you about manga being a very compelling way to study. I love to study that way　(its the reason I got Genshiken in the first place).

One　of the first manga I read in Japanese was Yotsuba, another manga with a pretty "地味" story. I'd have to recommend it to anyone who wants to try studying by manga because of its simple story and the fact that all the kanji have their furigana over them. Its always good to start with a manga aimed at a younger audience.

Yes, I didn't expect Genshiken to be so thoroughly...

2008-11-24T22:43:00.000+09:00

Yes, I didn't expect Genshiken to be so thoroughly satisfying in all ways, funny considering it's 地味 story, i.e. not flashy like Eva or whatever. I feel sorry for Welcome to the NHK since I expected something like Genshiken and it wasn't as good by far. (I didn't read the manga yet, I should do that.) Manga makes learning Japanese frankly something sort of close to easy, since it's so compelling in itself, it's not hard to study using manga.

I remember covering the colloquial "って" in my Japa...

2008-11-24T21:19:00.000+09:00

I remember covering the colloquial "って" in my Japanese class. There was a whole paragraph about it in the textbook, called Nakama, that I used.

Also Peter, I just recently got my hands on the Genshiken manga, true that about the anime being incomplete. But when you think about it, its not uncommon for that to happen when something is adapted to video, be it a novel or a manga. I don't know how many anime have destroyed their source material (thats you anime version of Zero no Tsukaima), at least the anime version of Genshiken was still very enjoyable.

Lol, at least she wsa not like my English teacher ...

2008-11-16T02:22:00.000+09:00

Lol, at least she wsa not like my English teacher in high-school, when I asked for a sentence I read in a D&D rules book she didn't even know that that meant.

Is it good, Timo? I haven't had time for manga in ...

2008-11-15T19:34:00.000+09:00

Is it good, Timo? I haven't had time for manga in an age, what a shame since I like it. I usually watch the anime versions of what I want to see, and if the manga is much more extensive I read it, like Genshiken, which you have to read since the anime is incomplete.

manga? try sundome.

2008-11-15T16:05:00.000+09:00

manga? try sundome.

Learned my lesson when they tried to teach me Span...

2008-11-15T02:08:00.000+09:00

Learned my lesson when they tried to teach me Spanish in school, trying to make me sound like a goddamn missionary. Perhaps I should get some formal instruction, but I probably run into your problem of teachers trying to make you sound like some heiress girl.

Ah, maybe so. She was especially strict I think. A...

2008-11-15T01:05:00.000+09:00

Ah, maybe so. She was especially strict I think. And yet, she was so damn hot, the object of everyone's fantasy. I think she was 25 at the time, which seemed like such an experienced age for a woman to be when I was 18. Bwa ha ha.

Times must have changed, as I have been taught (br...

2008-11-14T23:55:00.000+09:00

Times must have changed, as I have been taught (briefly) about ...って in my Japanese classes.