I’ve spent the last year learning more and more about Extensive Reading as a language acquisition tool, and decided that one of my 2026 goals was to read 100 Japanese books of any size. I’ve been doing my best to also write a little something about each book in Japanese, but I realized that I never get feedback on it, so I figured I could start posting here!
For those who don’t know, extensive reading is about reading A LOT. Not reading difficult things, or big books, or chapter books, but just reading ANYTHING in your target language.
Reading a long book is hard, but reading multiple smaller books is much easier and has a similar outcome, so I encourage anyone else who has been beating themselves up for not finishing their light novels to give this a shot.
The guidelines for commenting are:
- Include the name of the book
- Something interesting about the book
- Try and write at least three sentences
Example/Book 11:
昨日はtadoku.orgの「温泉の町 別府」を読んだ。レベル3の本だって二つの新しい言葉を学んだ。「どろゆ」と「むしゆ」は温泉のタイプだけど行ったことない。学びやすい本だった。
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