December 7th, 2025
- 155 reviews on WaniKani
- 15 lessons on WaniKani
- 9 reviews on Bunpro
- 3 stories on Satori Reader
- Manga: ちはやふる第３巻
- 3h of JLPT N2!
so, yep, i bombed xddd
I left the following message on my friends’ discord server immediately after going out of the examination station:
Even if somehow I did pass N2, which isn’t impossible, it almost certainly wouldn’t be 112 points I’d like to get to get labelled as B2 level by CEFR standards, so we’re back to the grind and looking forward to December 2026, “the time will pass anyway”, or something xdd
Truth to be said, I really considered that if I were to do well, I’d just rest on the laurels and go like “haaaa im so good at japanese 
” and then never confront the fact my speaking/writing is absolutely nowhere and then never approach N1, and now the deadline to feel like this is in a year from now, so that’s the silver lining ^^
Another thought is that I thought the emotion I’d feel while bombing would be, defeat? Being depressed? And I’m not necessarily seeing it yet, maybe I’m going through the stages of grief or something, but I know that night at the end of January will be depressing regardless xddd
So, ちはやふる！ Genuinely don’t know why this manga isn’t rated N2 on Natively, I think it’s really good N2 learning material, including the fact it brings a lot of sentences that don’t make sense until you actively think about things that are not written xddd
I think the furigana might be giving the false sense of comfort, but I believe you need to use the same brain muscles to understand it as something like Paradise Kiss, that I will also use as my N2 study material xddd
So are we doing 10 books in Japanese, 10 books in English, 10 books in German as a New Year’s resolution for real?
Looking forward to the winter reading marathon now, the goal remains 1 minute longer than @Redglare and 1 minute longer than @WeepingWeeb xdd
Life
I took an exam today! You wouldn’t know, it’s a weird one, I did sooo really well on that one im tellin you
Anyway, my N5 friend did much better than I did and she’s most likely passing! Really happy for her C:
Düsseldorf is also getting very Christmasy! I’m really salty that when I arrived yesterday, all the bookstores were closed already, and today, nothing was opened, because it’s Sunday in Germany ^^
…except for the Christmas markets and Japanese restaurants making crazy profit off of people coming to experience the Japanese culture in Düsseldorf ^^
Very Slam Dunk!
My friend left earlier than me, so I went to the Christmas market and did some ice skating! It’s been a while since I did it last, and it was raining the whole day, so the ice rink was basically a thin layer of a swimming pool on top ^^
Then hit the Glühwein (Kinderpunsch) stand and got myself another Christmas market mug, this one is ceramic and it was really pretty C:
EDIT: oo, btw, forgot to mention, but me and my friend got ourselves some matching TAKUMI RAMEN shirts from Düsseldorf, mine is Lavender and hers was pink ^^
See you tomorrow! ^^