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best part about learning japanese is being able to read and also eventually understand recognizeable words i hear in music or media. worst part is preparing to talk and then accidentally stuttering because i almost spoke in japanese, even though i meant to speak english which is my literal native language. my brain is stupid 😭 atleast im starting to learn but speaking can get embarrassing since im from tbe south
I decided I want to either start with Japanese or Korean for self studying languages again. Help me out!!
I've self studied Japanese on and off for years but I consume more content in Korean on a daily basis.
Thank you lovelies <3
[N2] 光が死んだ夏
In February I tackled a manga, that I've been curious about for a while: When 光が死んだ夏 was published as a tankōbon in 2022 and was immediately a hit, I unfortunately only read the very first chapter before I gave up.
This was because it is set in a rural area of Japan and is told almost entirely in dialect, which I didn't have any experience in back then.
Now that I'm more used to reading various texts in Japanese, I wanted to try reading this series once more and found that what was a significant hurdle a few years ago, was now easily manageable and I was able to read the 6 volumes comfortably back to back even.
There's of course the (eldritch?) horror and the grief of losing your best friend paired with the confusion over the thing that replaced him becoming him, but interwoven with that is also the theme of being young in a rural and mostly elderly community steeped in incomprehensible traditions. And both of these themes mesh extremely well!
I would recommend N2 reading abilities, but the manga has furigana on all kanji and is not particularly difficult to read except for the dialect, which you can look up and also will get used to after a while.
You can read the first few chapters and all new chapters for free on the publisher's official site:
