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How do I find books written in Japanese?

I’m a very tactile learner and because I love researching, learning, and employing new information, my latest desire to help myself learn Japanese is to find a book written in Japanese on an interesting topic and translate it page by page until I’ve 1) read the whole thing, 2) learned a crap ton of vocabulary, and 3) seen grammar in action. I used to subscribe to Makoto+ through TheJapanPage and love the way the e-zine is setup, so that’s the approach I’d be taking with my project book. I just have FIND one first. I am US based and live pretty far from any major cities, so I’m limited to online resources. Does anyone have any leads?

3 comments

  1. If you have any interest in manga/light novels you can pick them up very very cheaply from ebay if you don’t mind the wait to ship from Japan.

  2. I agree with that guy ^ I think många is the best option. I’ve done children’s books and young adult light novels, but I’ve found många the best for a few reasons
    1) it’s very real (depends on the manga of course) but it’s real conversations and they use a lot of colloquial stuff that you wouldn’t hear in a text book

    2) because of the pictures if you don’t understand the whole meaning you can put things together

    3) it’s reaaaally easy to find English translations and these translations are direct becuase it’s a short sentence per cell, as opposed to a paragraph or grammatical sentence.

    Two that I really (because they use simple language and are still enjoyable despite the age it’s written for) is yotsubato! And Nichijou

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