Illustration: Around a seminar table in a Japanese university classroom, a teacher leans beside a student and points to a particular passage in the student's open book. Other students follow the corresponding place in matching volumes, keeping fingertips on their pages while listening to the explanation.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

講こう読どく

koudoku

guided reading of texts

Used mainly for close reading in a class. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. しかし、それに対抗たいこうして神官しんかんの間あいだでは『日本書紀にほんしょき』神話しんわの講読こうどくが盛行せいこうし、神道しんとうの立場たちばを中心ちゅうしんとして神話しんわと歴史れきしを結合けつごうさせる思想しそうが起おこった。

    However, Shinto priests responded by widely studying the myths in the Nihon Shoki, and a school of thought emerged that linked myth and history from a Shinto perspective.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 大学だいがくの授業じゅぎょうで英語えいごの短編たんぺんを講読こうどくした。

    We studied an English short story closely in a university class.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 先生せんせいと古ふるい詩しを一行いちぎょうずつ講読こうどくした。

    We read an old poem line by line with the teacher.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 講読

  • 講lecture; clubOnコウ
  • 読readOnドク・トク・トウKunよむ

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