Do you stop for every unknown word? Do you note them down and come back to them?
Cruise past them?
Generally I can follow the story well of the series I’m reading and I hate breaking the flow of turning pages and will only look something up if it stops me understanding entirely but idk how effective this approach is.
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i’ve done many different patterns, and i think they all have their own value, so i’m going to recommend trying different ones and then evaluating how they feel. and even when you find one that feels right, keep cycling from time to time to mix it up. you can stop and start, cruise thru and get whatever you can, or somewhere inbetween and circle words to come back to and then re-read after memorizing them. all worthwhile in their own ways. i tend towards the latter. i also tend to read a chapter without stopping, then read the chapter in english to see if i missed something critical, and then go back to see sections where i missed an inference or something – gotta love those unknown unknowns.
If you look up unknown words with Manga OCR + Yomichan it’s very fast and doesn’t really “break the flow”.
I stop for just about everything unknown. Thankfully, the stories I gravitate towards purely for enjoyment’s sake are the type to need relatively few lookups at my current level anyway, so it feels worth it to try and close as many gaps as I can. And since all of my manga are digital, I have a clean and simple way to include a lot of necessary context if I want to review on Anki. If I’m feeling lazy, I’ll just make custom word lists on my dictionary app for reference.
i+1 should be your understanding allows you to grasp the meaning.
If the panel has a cat eating a fish and you don’t know the word for cat and you saw 猫は魚を食べています, your should be able to piece it together.
Problem is manga artists generally wouldn’t be making comics for Japanese learners and choosing specific words. They’d write as whatever words they need.
Comprehensible input and i+1 is a concept from SLA. It is anticipating a teacher is curating curriculum based on a unit or goal. You’d have enough to understand a particular story, but not everything.