講読

こうどく · koudoku · JLPT N1 · noun

reading

📖 講 (lecture, explain) + 読 (read) = reading a text with an explainer, as in a class

Also used for subscribing to a newspaper or journal: 新聞を講読する means to take a newspaper. The 講 part adds the sense of regular, structured reading.

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