人間の関係
Sunday, March 30th, 2008(to anyone learning Japanese: please see possibly very helpful link below!)
昨日、Newport Beachと言ういいところに行く途中で、Costa Mesaにある日本のスーパーのミツワで泊まってから、買い物をした。漢字が上手になるように、がんばって日本の本を読むことにした。だから、そっちの本屋でいい本を探していた。「人間の関係」の本を見るとたんに、興味をそそった。作者の「五木寛之」を聞いたことがなかったけど、日本に有名な作者だそうだね。
哲学の興味があって、日本人の思い方が知りたいから、作者のことも本のことも知らないでのにとにかく買った。今日読み始めた。難しい！ほぼ本より、天使辞書のほうを読んでる！（笑）
Hey folks, I decided to start doing some heavy reading in Japanese. A book called ningen no kankei (Human Relations) by Hiroyuki Itsuki. He (yes, I thought Hiroyuki was a dame’s name at first; I was wrong) is apparently quite popular in Japan, mostly for his fiction, but lately he has been writing more philosophically-oriented things.
Anyway, as I read this, I write down new words I have to look up to help me learn the words, making the reading go (hopefully) faster as I go along and learn the vocabulary. I noticed that google documents lets you share documents with anyone through a link, so I thought “hey, if helping others is easy and convenient, why the hell not?” So, if you want to go down the same fool-hardy path as me, I believe this will be a GREAT help for you. I look up almost all the kanji-containing words I see.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=piKF_Z6L4JhH4s2uS0bY0eA&hl=en