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Common slang/contractions used in Japanese Manga

#1
I was wondering if anybody could help.

I was wondering if there is any useful resource, online (ie. easily cut and pastable, rather than time-consumingly copy from a book and type-outable), for helping Japanese learners transition from textbook Japanese to manga/anime/videogame Japanese - somewhere that might list common phrases, or useful slang, or some of the contractions that make manga seem so daunting. Something aimed at people who know textbook Japanese, but might get confused by something like, for example, the use of って as a topic marker or whatever.

The reason I'm looking is that I have recently taken over a newsletter aimed at westerners living in Japan, and there is a regular one- or two-page column about learning Japanese. Previous columns have covered stuff like the evolution of the Japanese writing systems, Japanese superstitions and so on. But I thought something like a guide to real Japanese might be more useful, and I figured somebody must have already done something like this, right?
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#2
I really think the best way is to just start reading it, you'll catch on eventually.

That aside, this site is pretty neat http://anime-manga.jp/
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#3
Yeah, that's certainly what I've found - but this is for the benefit of other people who may be reluctant to dive in. And because I've already assimilated a lot of this information, I find it difficult to try to think of what might be useful for someone starting out...
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#4
http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/colloquial-contractions.html
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#5
Since I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Japan, to me, the people in manga seem to be speaking normally, and the sentences I'm reading in KO2001 and suchlike are weird. Smile
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