And I’m willing to keep getting it to work! It’s just that I have a feeling that I have an ADHD brain trying to navigate a certain level of being intermediate in Japanese, where the pros of ADHD brain: it sometimes goes hypoactive and you can hyperfocus for literal hours, cons of ADHD brain: force it to do something against its will in the hyperactive mode and it’ll start physically hurting your body before you even know it 
I’m still trying to understand my mind and my body, so this thread is the attempts to understand myself too ^^
Thank you for this post! It was very encouraging to read it ^^
dam i thought i’d just do a spring 2026 marathon with an audiobook and i’d be good at listening, what do you mean it’s 700 hours, that’s 690 more than my entry would be 
xddd
Interesting discussion either way, thanks for posting this!
January 11th, 2026
- 117 reviews on WaniKani
- 6 reviews on Bunpro
- Book Club: 推しの子第２巻
- Children’s Book: 友だちは1/2ゆうれい終わりまで
- Manga: 冷たくて 柔らか第２巻
- Podcast: 50m of ちっち邸のゆるっとゲーム雑談
uuh uh. I spent something like 7 hours on Japanese today again.
I also finally made our book club official, Speed Run Book Club is a thing now! We started with 君に届け that I’ll be reading over the upcoming days sometime ^^
But as for today:
The 友だちは1/2ゆうれい book, I thought “why keep splitting it up into chapters”, and then I just binged it in a bubble tea place. The whole book counting the first chapter before took me something like 3.5-4 hours maybe, it did have furigana everywhere, so no lookups were strictly necessary, but the stamina issue showed up once again and I was zooming in and out of some sections. Luckily though, I understood 99% of the story beats, so it really wasn’t that bad.
I did not look up a single word or a single character in the book.
I decided to rate it Level 22 on Natively because it just threw a VIOLET TWILIGHT at me and I’m like “WAS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A KIDS BOOK” xddd
But yeah, I’d really be interested in finding those 少女探偵ナンシー somewhere, but I’m almost sure the library at JDZB doesn’t have it ^^
On the other hand though, 推しの子 went flying today! I had a really good reading session, where even if I was making lookups, the lookups were like “ah yeah, that makes sense” and I also was able to understand 99% of the story beats even though the text was much more difficult ^^
And 冷たくて 柔らか, it started of a little disappointing, but then it picked up once again in the second half and I was bought again, not enough to give it 5 stars again, but I’m still into the manga ^^
As for the podcast, it took me 40m into the episode to realize that this is no longer a video game podcast, but a board game one, I was wondering why were they talking about the board games there xdd
But it was an anniversary episode and there was one riddle related to a board game, wasn’t able to crack it, but the board game looks fun ^^
Life
I think that SAD caught up with me really bad xddd
Consider it a continuation of complaining over the last few days, it’s getting meh ^^
That’s the reason for so many hours of Japanese today, I just simply couldn’t get myself to real world today that much ^^
I got myself some Vitamin D to try to boost my mood, but it took me until 2pm to even be able to leave the flat today ^^
I did manage to witness a beautiful sunset though!
And then I cooked some Asian, baozi and edamame… with German tea ^^
Back to work tomorrow, see you then~