[Zgarbas]

tashippy Wrote:How would one count pages on a big smart phone screen in and Aozora novel in Vertical Text Viewer?

Sounds cool @Zgarbas. Are you the only one in the class who is reading some of the books in Japanese? If the 27 books are already online somewhere could you copy/paste the list? Don't bother typing them out if they're not, that's an unnecessary hassle.

Yeah. Only read 斜陽、南の国境、西の太陽、and 羅生門 fully in Japanese though. Tried Mori Ogai, but he was way too hard to read, and I couldn't find the rest online (or they were too long and I didn't have time; it's hard to fit 27 novels in 2 months. Still got a low grade =( ). If it's English versions you're interested in, I still have a few on my computer and could mail them to you if you'd like.

As for the ones in Japanese, you can find them on 青空文庫, along with most other classics like Souseki.

I was hoping just for the list of the book titles. I'm curious to see what a your professor decided is required reading.
I might take up your offer for the English versions if I can find the bunko version in Book Off. I haven't really taken the time to learn how to put Aozora books onto the Kindle because I kind of like the little bunko books anyway. >ニコ<

[Zgarbas]

I totally misunderstood that question ^^'.

We had: 砂の女（Kobo Abe), Setting SUn（Osamu Dazai)、河童(Akutagawa Ryunosuke), キッチン(Yoshimoto Banana <3), Masks & Years of Waiting (Fumiko Enchi), Geisha, a Life (mineko Iwasaki), Death of a Tea Master & Hunting Gun (Yasushi Inoue), Ladcadio Hearn's Japan (anthology), A Strange Tale from East of the River (Kafū Nagai), The Master of Go, 雪国、山の音 (Kawabata), Runaway Horses, 金閣寺 & the way of the Samurai (mishima), Kinshu (Teru Miyamoto), South of the Border, West of the Sun & IQ84 (haruki murakami), Coin Locker Babies (Ryu Murakami), A personal Experience (Kenzaburo Oe... I hated this book), Wild Geese＆The Dancer(Mori Ogai), The book of tea (Okakura), I am a Cat & こころ (Soseki), A Cat, a Man, and Two Women (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki).

Not sure about the names in English for some of them. The ones I left in Japanese we also covered in translations class.

Wow, almost all of them are classics. You sure didn't lose your time reading those.
(Thanks for the list, it gave me some ideas).

tashippy Wrote:How would one count pages on a big smart phone screen in and Aozora novel in Vertical Text Viewer?

Here is what I found for vertical Japanese text aka "double rowed"

Quote:#book : 1 ppp
#dr [6] – (double rowed) Japanese Only : 1.48 ppp

Source: http://readmod.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/...-manual/#6

Also, you can always use http://readmod.com/ to instead update. Just login using your twitter info, Click the Update section> insert amount of pages read> choose "Book" as medium> then put a check mark next to "Double Rowed?"

Hope this helps!

RawrPk Wrote:

tashippy Wrote:How would one count pages on a big smart phone screen in and Aozora novel in Vertical Text Viewer?

Here is what I found for vertical Japanese text aka "double rowed"

Quote:#book : 1 ppp
#dr [6] – (double rowed) Japanese Only : 1.48 ppp

Source: http://readmod.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/...-manual/#6

Also, you can always use http://readmod.com/ to instead update. Just login using your twitter info, Click the Update section> insert amount of pages read> choose "Book" as medium> then put a check mark next to "Double Rowed?"

Hope this helps!

Actually, the double rowed option is for printed books that look like http://readmod.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/01_022.png. I am going to assume that the app he talks about scales to your screen size so the only real way of getting a good score out it it would be to download the same story on your computer and get the character count then divide that by 400.

Hmm, tried to make an update today, but it seems to have been applied twice and the delete update button doesn't work.

dizmox Wrote:Hmm, tried to make an update today, but it seems to have been applied twice and the delete update button doesn't work.

tweet "@TadokuBot #undo" minus the quotes

arigatou

drdunlap Wrote:

dizmox Wrote:maybe I'll have to swallow my pride and abuse my foreign-ness and network to get a job after all.

いつの世も持つべき物は人脈だ。

Scratch that, I think I'm going to be fine. Still 8 months to improve and it's not like every company has web tests.

Should finish Spice and Wolf volume 7 today, yay

How do you guys tackle books with occasional words that are somewhat strange, such as WWII terms? I'm reading 永遠の０ right now and I do fine until the guy starts talking about planes and all that. Some words aren't even on most of the dictionary sites I use. It's very depressing attempting to read it at some points.

TheVinster Wrote:How do you guys tackle books with occasional words that are somewhat strange, such as WWII terms? I'm reading 永遠の０ right now and I do fine until the guy starts talking about planes and all that. Some words aren't even on most of the dictionary sites I use. It's very depressing attempting to read it at some points.

Examples (especially of some words that aren't on the dictionary sites you use)? Although, I'm reading 影法師 by the same author right now and it's set in 江戸 so that's a good time. With characters who have names like 富樫九郎右衛門.. But I can see where a lot of the words they're using are just older versions of things I already know and the old objects with which they're interacting I can usually figure out through kanji and/or context. -- Keep a dictionary handy and keep on keepin' on. :p

TheVinster Wrote:How do you guys tackle books with occasional words that are somewhat strange, such as WWII terms? I'm reading 永遠の０ right now and I do fine until the guy starts talking about planes and all that. Some words aren't even on most of the dictionary sites I use. It's very depressing attempting to read it at some points.

There's a lot of stuff I don't look up, if I can get a general idea of what they're talking about. Generally I'm aiming for 95%-98% comprehension rather than 100%, and words that are somewhat strange/outdated are probably words I don't need to learn.

If I really care (usually this is just if I'm doing a translation, or if I have NO idea what's going on) then I'll try Wikipedia, and often I end up paging back between the Japanese Wikipedia page and the English Wikipedia page. Either wikipedia or searching Google for [term]とは / [term]というのは will usually yield useful results.

Wow, it's all over. Guess I can stop reading now.

B-but... I wanna read more! Reading through Date A Live (yeah... Personal choice, really), so I'm gonna keep going.

Anyone read any really good books this round? I went through Another (Ayatuji Yukito) and it was a lot better than I thought it would be, despite some boring explanation scenes (I already know THAT) and a few predictable plot twists (definitely didn't guess the end though).

I would share others, but they ain't Japanese.

I really enjoyed プラチナデータ by 東野圭吾.
It's pretty easy to read and the story's interesting (mystery/detective novel style). :]

I like these books.
[funny]イン・ザ・プール(奥田 英朗)
[poignant]その日のまえに(重松　清)
[crime mystery]天使のナイフ(薬丸 岳)

Thanks for the suggestions

[Zgarbas]

Ready for the next round?

When is the next round?

[Zgarbas]

Starts tomorrow. It's a half-round (from the 15th to the 30th)

perfect timing, right before school starts. round 2.5 started a few hours ago

It really is perfect timing for that, Aspiring. I just finished summer intensive at school. I also feel it's a good amount of time since the last one (so's I could catch up on speaking, vocab, listening and writing).
I'm getting my wisdoms pulled tomorrow morning. I don't know if this will allow me to read more because of time off of work or less because of extreme pain. Ibuprofen will be my reading partner.

I finished my final unread Japanese novel yesterday. I had ordered some new ones over a week ago and it still hasn't even shipped out yet from Kinokuniya. ;_;

[RawToast]

Ah good, time to read once more

Hope to score higher than last time round (with half the time). Picked up a dual language set of stories to plough through.