Reddit reviews Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text (Japanese Edition)
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I think you can always do passive listening as in watch Anime and Dorama with subtitles. It might not seem like you study, but the constant exposure to spoken Japanese alone will train your ears and you will soon start to recognize words and phrases which gives you a nice feeling of success.
Once you finished Genki 1, you are probably ready for reading practice with native material. Pick up a simple Manga that has furigana and try getting through it, it will probably take you 10-20 minutes per page at first, but that speed will increase. Just imagine yourself at 4-5 years of age, trying to read your first book. There are also graded readers (just Google it) or parallel texts which I highly recommend.
Like most people here are saying you need to know a lot more Japanese before you can read novels. Once you're a but further I recommend you to read this book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Short-Stories-Japanese-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0143118331
Everytime a new kanji is introduced it has the furigana attached. Also put all the new words you learn in a flash card app.
Good luck with studying :)
(Tae Kim http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/ Tae Kim)
Like most answers, i'd have to say you need vocab, some kanji, basic grammar, and probably more. However, if you plow through some reading material, translating as best you can and figuring out what you can, grammar-wise, doing your best understand what's going on, then yeah it can be a valuable exercise.
Just keep at it. Take notes. Study what you're learning by translating. But again, learning a bit more of the language in traditional ways will help greatly. Maybe do that in parallel with the reading.
This is a pretty good parallel text with no extra help, just a straight one-for-one:
http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Japanese-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0143118331/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375183036&sr=1-3
While I personally do not know any, as I am a beginner (for like, 4 or six years due to my lack of studying :D )
u/overactive-bladder had shown me some.
https://www.amazon.fr/Read-Real-Japanese-Essays-Contemporary/dp/1568364148/ref=pd_sim_14_1/259-4279497-3692713?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1568364148&pd_rd_r=d172be83-a0ea-11e9-a0e7-ff5133ca3569&pd_rd_w=0Ju56&pd_rd_wg=onHm2&pf_rd_p=7e133c34-2a2a-4f4f-8372-6a26c70ca073&pf_rd_r=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8&psc=1&refRID=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8
exploring japanese literature: https://www.amazon.fr/Exploring-Japanese-Literature-Tanizaki-Kawabata/dp/1568365411/ref=pd_sim_14_5/259-4279497-3692713?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1568365411&pd_rd_r=d172be83-a0ea-11e9-a0e7-ff5133ca3569&pd_rd_w=0Ju56&pd_rd_wg=onHm2&pf_rd_p=7e133c34-2a2a-4f4f-8372-6a26c70ca073&pf_rd_r=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8&psc=1&refRID=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8
A collection of Japanese short stories with parallel English translation =D It would be really neat to have more to hand to put the grammar I'm learning to practice.
I am nowhere near reading novels in Japanese but I bought a nice Penguin pocket for when I can that features Japanese short stories with the Japanese on one side of the page and English on the other.
https://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Japanese-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0143118331
there are many graded readers out there with exactly what you're describing though.
https://www.amazon.fr/Read-Real-Japanese-Essays-Contemporary/dp/1568364148/ref=pd_sim_14_1/259-4279497-3692713?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1568364148&pd_rd_r=d172be83-a0ea-11e9-a0e7-ff5133ca3569&pd_rd_w=0Ju56&pd_rd_wg=onHm2&pf_rd_p=7e133c34-2a2a-4f4f-8372-6a26c70ca073&pf_rd_r=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8&psc=1&refRID=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8
exploring japanese literature: https://www.amazon.fr/Exploring-Japanese-Literature-Tanizaki-Kawabata/dp/1568365411/ref=pd_sim_14_5/259-4279497-3692713?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1568365411&pd_rd_r=d172be83-a0ea-11e9-a0e7-ff5133ca3569&pd_rd_w=0Ju56&pd_rd_wg=onHm2&pf_rd_p=7e133c34-2a2a-4f4f-8372-6a26c70ca073&pf_rd_r=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8&psc=1&refRID=47RS5KNR1PN2A3V66MX8
also, i am a native middle eastern and i studied arabic there. now that i moved away (thank god) i am anxious of losing my dialect and the written language. i have been looking into getting back into kawa3ed for the harakat part. even natives mess up a LOT. i still remember my arabic teacher saying "i always cringe when i hear a news reporter screw up the kawa3ed lmfao.