Syphilias' Pep Talk!
I wrote a really nice letter to a member here who wanted to learn Japanese, and wanted to know where to get manga in Japanese. I just kept typing and so I decided I'd share this little pep talk with the MH community.
Enjoy! (^w^
ふふっ～！
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On the news article you asked where is a good place to get books in Japanese.
sasugabooks.com
This site has a really nice selection. There are options to buy manga in a set(whole/half/good chunk) of a series, or just buy one book at a time.
It's kind of like a store you would walk into, and they don't just have manga. They have a wide selection of books in Japanese as well as English.
They are located in USA, so I don't know if it's still the same to get it shipped to Mexico, but you can answer that for yourself. Be prepared to wait a few weeks for delivery. I'm in California and my deliveries never got to me and shorter than 4 weeks.
My first and only manga I bought from there was The Mythical Detective Loki. Make sure if you buy it that you DON'T get the one with RAGNAROK on the title. That is the second part of the series and starts after volume 7 of the first series.
You could also look up titles on mangahelpers to give you ideas for manga you might like.
As far as learning Japanese goes, you'll have an easier time learning since you're starting with primarily spanish(I assume it's your first language?) Japanese works similarly to Spanish, so after you read a lot, (and I mean a LOT! I have read through Loki volumes 1-6 for the 5th or 6th time now... it never gets old, and I understand more each time I go through it.) then you will start to see patterns and you won't have to think as hard.
A lot of people try to translate every single phrase to their primary language(English speakers, at least) and this is a long, daunting, and pretty much useless way of learning Japanese. Google search "hiragana chart" and "katakana chart" and write down 5 sylables 50-200 times a day until you don't have to use the chart anymore.
After you've learned all of the hiragana/katakana, you can read ANY shounen manga, since shounen almost always has furigana(hiragana on the side of the kanji) in order to show you the readings of the kanji.
Don't worry about kanji until you're comfortable reading hiragana, because you can gradually learn kanji over the course of your life. You'll start recognizing the same kanji being used in different ways, and the same BASE kanji being used in a DIFFERENT kanji, and it'll all just MAKE SENSE for SOME REASON!
Anyway, there are plenty of resources on the internet, as well as a TON of books on the subject. You're going to have to use your brain JUST a little, so....
GOOD LUCK LEARNING JAPANESE, MY FRIEND!
