USJETAA Japanese Reading Group - September 2022

The goal of the USJETAA Japanese Reading Group is to help 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.

Find your timezone: Sept. 9th 7:00 PM EDT / 6:00 PM CDT / 5:00 PM MDT / 4:00 PM PDT/ 3:00 PM ADT / 2:00 PM HDT / Japan time: Sept. 10th 8:00 AM

In September, we'll be finishing Nakaya Ukichiro's シカゴの雉子 (Chicago Pheasant) (https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001569/files/59806_74210.html). Nakaya was a physicist known for his work with artificial snowflakes in addition to being an essayist.

We'll be finishing the second half of the reading from the sentence アメリカがまだ新しい国であるということは、中学校の西洋歴史でも教わったわけであるが、実際に住んでみて、初めてその点がよくわかったような気がする。

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