I had started a side project a couple years ago where I was reading the JP novel translation of MDZS (published by FrontierWorks) side-by-side with the Exiled Rebels EN translation, and then proceeding to get lost in the weeds. I like the weeds. It forced me to do a lot of research. Unfortunately, tumblr is not a good place to put five page essays on the regular. I only had one person who read my stuff.

But it seems like DW is a place where people find long posting significantly less objectionable??

I have all that stuff saved in a word doc somewhere. Minus tangents where I translate Tang dynasty poetry, it's 62 pages long, and I only finished the prologue through Chp 3.

Would anyone read it if I started reposting it?
 

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This post assumes you just finished getting through an elementary textbook like Genki or Minna no Nihongo or god forbid Tobira. The real meat and potatoes of Classical Japanese is that conjugation table. What I want to do is bridge the appendix page of your modern Japanese conjugation tables with enough knowledge that you can jump tentatively from modern to classical rather than take a leap of faith and fall in a river.

The average learner's Japanese text book does NOT give you enough to work with to actually pivot to Classical with an adequate level of understanding of grammar.

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