(2016-06-12, 7:23 am)Zgarbas Wrote: Looking up words is not a tadoku sin at all, I used the dictionary quite extensively when I first started out (and am using it a lot for my Spanish book now). It slows you down, so if anything it's tadoku on hard mode since you're tackling something that's above your level =)
I've run into this while reading 新世界より. It's generally an easy read, but there are definitely passages - e.g., the description of 追儺 - where the unknown vocab comes fast and furious for me. I'm still plowing through, but alternating with some lighter fare to keep my pace up.