Japanese reading intensifies
2016-Mar-08, Tuesday 21:40![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I didn't have tutoring today since I have book group (theoretically...there may be technical difficulties that prevent it from occurring), so I asked Aya-sensei to give me another chapter of 世界の中心で、愛を叫ぶ to read since I'd have two weeks to read it. Since I'm getting the whole thing as a scanned-in PDF from her hardcopy, I figured I'd post a page so people can see what I'm reading:
Normally I'd have the page festooned with notes of questions I have about particular sentences, vocabulary words and their pronunciations so I don't have to keep looking things up, but I'm still doing an initial read-through to see how much I understand before I do any of that. This page is about how the protagonist and Aki, the perfect Yamato nadeshiko love interest, have been chosen as Romeo and Juliet for their class's performance in the school Culture Festival, and some of the other (male) students are teasing the protagonist over his enthusiasm during the balcony scene. I think.
But yeah, I'm reading a Japanese novel!
Normally I'd have the page festooned with notes of questions I have about particular sentences, vocabulary words and their pronunciations so I don't have to keep looking things up, but I'm still doing an initial read-through to see how much I understand before I do any of that. This page is about how the protagonist and Aki, the perfect Yamato nadeshiko love interest, have been chosen as Romeo and Juliet for their class's performance in the school Culture Festival, and some of the other (male) students are teasing the protagonist over his enthusiasm during the balcony scene. I think.
But yeah, I'm reading a Japanese novel!
