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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5024 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1 of 6 19 August 2011 at 8:02pm | IP Logged |
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I have a background as a musician, and when we receive unfamiliar scores musicians can suffer "black page anxiety." That is what we name the panic that comes from having something new and unfamiliar to read. When feeling "black page anxiety" everything seems to blur together and lose all sense.
Lately when I am looking at Japanese websites, I feel the Japanese reading version of "black page anxiety." I don't mean this as a question of how do I read my kana or kanji. I am in the process of learning those, and this isn't really about that. I just want to know if there are reading stategies I can use to approach things that are written in Japanese, especially webpages, so that they are no longer intimidating. Thank you very much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5371 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 6 19 August 2011 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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I sometimes find reading Japanese intimidating too. I just try to practice regularly. Once I get down to it, it's fine, usually.
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6649 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 3 of 6 19 August 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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rikaichan is an add-on for firefox that gives the meaning of words and readings of kanji when hovering the word or
sign. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5756 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 6 19 August 2011 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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Display your websites in a way that doesn't put too much text on a screen at once, and that doesn't distract you.
The main reason I get this feeling is that I try to compute all at once and miss my starting point. When I only see one paragraph at once, it usually stops being overwhelming and when it doesn't, I can force myself to only look at the first word and actually read it, then the second, the third etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mei190 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5330 days ago 29 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 6 24 August 2011 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
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I can understand this and used to feel it some time ago.
I agree about starting off with smaller chunks. If you cannot find a way to display the pages with a smaller amount of text on the screen, view pages that you know aren't going to have that much on the screen. Places like news articles on Yahoo JP etc generally don't have majorly long articles. rikaichan used to be amazing for me, even though I don't have as much use for it anymore. This certainly can make pages feel less daunting when you have a backup popup dictionary. It makes vocabulary immersion quite quick also. These are probably the only things you can do until you truely know all the kanji readings. After that, it is considerably less daunting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4691 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 6 of 6 24 February 2012 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
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You could download Wakan and copy & paste text from websites to it, then insert Furigana. It also has a function to save vocab, so you basically "bring the text home to your learning environment", which takes away much of this anxiety. You now made the text the body you're about to probe ;)
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