The USJETAA Japanese Reading Group helps advanced beginner and intermediate level students improve their reading skills. Each month we will look at a short reading from Aozora Bunko, a repository of public domain literature. Participants should attempt to do the reading on their own and come to the meeting with any questions. We will spend the meeting each month reading the assignment sentence by sentence to understand how the Japanese is working.
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This month's meeting will be on the first Friday of the month.
March reading:
https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000234/files/50417_47816.html
This month we're reading "Waterfalls" by Imai Kuniko. She's a novelist, poet, and literary scholar from Nagano prefecture. The reading uses the older kana orthography, so small つ will appear as big つ and え will sometimes be written as へ. The reading ends with a challenging poem. Let's puzzle through this one together!
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