How to seperate words and particles when reading When reading Japanese at such an entry level I often find myself stopping to translate every second or third word. This can take some time but it's good to help learn. Often there are a series of words together and it's hard to take just the individual word out to be translated especially when some words contain what looks like it could be a particle, or kanji that change their meaning when prefixed or suffixed by certain other kana characters. Is there any good method for a beginner to help identify where one word starts an another word ends? Ideally I'd like to translate a sentence word for word so that I can try to work out the context of the sentence as I read in a liner manner... If I translate the entire sentence in one hit then I feel like this prevents optimal learning and also moves the dependency to translation tools such as google translate instead of dictionaries such as Jisho.

Manga for Beginners Hi Everyone, Is anybody able to help locate a good manga for a beginner starting out learning Japanese? Everything I search for in English I can only find with English translations, however am finding it very difficult to locate a Japanese version. Ideally I would like something with available in both Japanese and English as my vocabulary is very limited so I will be looking up translations for every word to begin with and would like to check my translation against an English version to check if I got it right. I'm sure there's tonnes of free content available however I can't seem to locate any in Japanese so if anybody is able to point me in the right direction what would be great!

Which Radicals Make up the 私 kanji? I'm trying to learn some basic Kanji and I think it would help to understand how to identify the radicals. In the example 私 I can see the person/human radical on the left 亻and the private radical on the right ム but that's all I can find. This is enough for me to remember the kanji and is a very basic example. But are there more radicals hidden on the left? If not, What are the extra markings and how do you identify the correct radicals with so many extra marks which possibly make them look like different radicals? Edit: Is it a Tree radical 木 mixed with the person radical 亻on the left maybe?