Trouble working out when the next word starts


I'm studying Kanji from the book "Kanji de manga", In the book they present
manga written in hiragana/katakana and replace one word with the Kanji they
showcase on that page. However, when I'm reading it, I notice that everything
is squashed together with no spaces in between.

Here's an image of what I mean:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TnpYi.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TnpYi.png)

How can you tell when the next word starts? I understand everything in the
book, except when the next word starts.

Thanks.




There are three things that can help you here:

  1. They're being nice and breaking words cleanly at the end of each line. The start of a new line is always the start of a new word here.**
  2. Speak the lines out to yourself. Hearing yourself speak will combine your listening comprehension with your reading comprehension. However, this is moot if you don't:
  3. Learn more words. My brain is used to the various parts of speech, and thus immediate splits apart the text (from the first bubble) into:

> べんきょう・なんか・して・どう・した・の？ めずらしい・わ・ね

Regardless of the presence of Kanji. Kanji is meant to assist in that
splitting process. The full text is:

> 勉強なんかしてどうしたの？珍しいわね

Notice that the real text is mostly Hiragana anyway. Reading enough manga and
novels will get your eyes used to this.

** Novels won't always be nice like this. Mid-hiragana-stream splits from line
to line are quite common.




There are three things that can help you here:

  1. They're being nice and breaking words cleanly at the end of each line. The start of a new line is always the start of a new word here.**
  2. Speak the lines out to yourself. Hearing yourself speak will combine your listening comprehension with your reading comprehension. However, this is moot if you don't:
  3. Learn more words. My brain is used to the various parts of speech, and thus immediate splits apart the text (from the first bubble) into:

> べんきょう・なんか・して・どう・した・の？ めずらしい・わ・ね

Regardless of the presence of Kanji. Kanji is meant to assist in that
splitting process. The full text is:

> 勉強なんかしてどうしたの？珍しいわね

Notice that the real text is mostly Hiragana anyway. Reading enough manga and
novels will get your eyes used to this.

** Novels won't always be nice like this. Mid-hiragana-stream splits from line
to line are quite common.

