(2016-06-19, 11:03 pm)RawrPk Wrote: I also considered maybe reading the manga in English first and then Japanese but maybe that is considered cheating? I like to do extensive reading when I read manga so I almost never use a dictionary on my first read. I tend to do lookup after the initial reading session so I just thought maybe reading in English first would ease the process. Any thoughts?
I for one think you could get a lot out of that exercise. In fact I plan to do much the same thing in the future. I have an untested theory that the only thing that matters is that you understand what you are reading. If you have to read the story in english or pre-learn vocabulary to get to where you are understanding most of what you are reading or watching, that's not cheating, it's pragmatism.