Comments on: Learning Japanese Through Hana Kimi

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:20:59 +0000

I’m not sure I’ll get through all of it!! Besides, I only have the first five volumes atm.
The deluxe edition came out about the same time as the TV series. The difference is it has some images from the picture books at the front in colour, and they have three or four editions in the one book.

I was in Japan when he was in Grease but very sad because I couldn’t get tickets. I really wanted to see it! I will have to hunt around for the you tube clips!!

By: ChocoCat

ChocoCat — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:25:15 +0000

Carlie-san, I salute you! I wouldn’t have enough patience to read all of Hana-Kimi in Japanese! Lol. Sugoii..
I have not seen the duluxe edition before..is it expensive?
Btw, did u see YouTube clips of Ikuta Toma playing Danny Zuko in the Japanese version, Grease? (a musical though, not movie). If I remembered correctly, it was played last year Oct-Nov in Japan. I wished I was there to see it!~ It would have been awesome! (^__^)

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:32:36 +0000

Hao, I love the drama! I’ve even reviewed some of it here:

http://www.goddesscarlie.com/tag/hana-kimi/

And have the photo book from the series :luvfly:

Yeah, I’m not too worried if I don’t understand something completely. Some slang I can find, some slang I know from hearing elsewhere – that’s when it helps to read a loud as some times when just reading I don’t get it, but when I say it out I realise I have heard it before.

After I’ve gone through it a couple of times I would like to go through with the English translation so I can see how much I have “got” and perhaps understand a bit more.

Eventually I hope I will need no dictionary at all!

By: Hao

Hao — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:48:47 +0000

I’m doing the same with Love Hina, watched the anime a long time ago and now I’m reading the manga, my recommendation is just to skip parts that you don’t understand when you don’t have an online dictionary or something accessible, in any case slang won’t appear…

BTW, have you seen Hana Kimi Jdrama? Great stuff, I recommend it ^^ (can share link if you need) Lemme know if you need the link

By: GoddessCarlie

GoddessCarlie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:13:29 +0000

Actually, it is quicker, cheaper, and easier for me to go to Japan for book off than NY. Yay for being at the arse end of the planet In some ways I am glad that I don’t live close to a book off, it would be very dangerous indeed!

By: M-Kat

M-Kat — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:36:58 +0000

It’s a great way to learn I think. When I went to Japan I bought the Death Note mange (which I’m sure isn’t the best manga to start off reading in Japanese:-p) and the Hana Yori Dango manga and began to read that. Also if you ever go to NYC there is a Book Off with tons of reading material.just the same as in Japan. When I was living there I think I was at book off maybe 3 or 4 times a week :-p

I should try reading Hana Kimi though. I’ve seen the show and have the English manga but I agree reading something again in it’s natural language is very helpful!! I wish you success in finishing it ^^