They weren't kidding about it being painful.

cross-posted from: ani.social/post/2385805

“Ah, yes, I’m familiar with this string of characters. It appears frequently when the male and female characters are entwined in the heat of passion. Strangely, she keeps saying “Go!” “Go!” even though the dictionary indicates that she should be saying something like “I’m arriving!” “I’m arriving!” instead…”

Sentence taken from a random Japanese article on a website I saw recommended at r/LearnJapanese, NHK’s Easy Japanese News service. It’s pretty good as reading practice, but the slow reading speed (even with Yomitan) makes me feel like a Stellaris researcher trying to decipher the stories of a long-lost civilization… and getting it wrong 90% of the time.

But 10% of the time, it works, and you feel pretty good about that. Hopefully it gets easier and better the more reading is done…

Source: “Kyoto Prefecture, Uji City: Mimurodoji’s Plum Blossoms Bloom Prettily.”