I’m honestly considering the same. It’s a bit disappointing, considering how famous it is…
The only thing that keeps me going is that I pushed quite hard for it when things were on the fence, so I feel some responsibility to see it through.
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Responsibility, adulthood… eew
But seriously, 頑張ろうね! I hate to drop things halfway, since I already bought it and all.
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Since this is more advanced than the other clubs, wanted to ask here for advice here (and also because some people here apparently read super fast 
) . @sigolino and @Naphthalene (and of course others), do you use anything to study vocabs, like external SRS or something, or SRS after you read?
I hate learning vocabs in isolation, it never worked for me, but I’m afraid I might be going at it inefficiently to just depend on reading material I love and looking up words until they stick.
Well, it hasn’t been bad so far, but I want to take the most advantage out of my little free time. Any advice is highly appreciated!
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I probably can’t help too much with advice. I just read a lot and have no patience for SRS, so I use a dictionary whenever I feel like looking up a word I don’t know. I might slack if I think I get it, so I don’t look up everything either, though if the same word shows up a few more times I usually do.
The only “advice” I can give you is to read a lot. In my case, I’ve been doing it for the past 1 and a half year or something nonstop, and it really made a world of difference.
Due to some life circumstances, I did coincidentally have a lot of free time during that period, though, so I don’t know how well that would work for you…
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That actually does help. Thank you!
I’ve also been stalking you on bookmeter, we have lots of shared interests.
I was meaning to do the same, I really just want to read and read. (I just don’t want to discover after a couple years that I should have done it way differently)
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After I finish reading each week, I add the words I had to look up to Anki, and if it’s hard to work out the meaning from the kanji alone, then I will write a quick mnemonic. It’s thanks to Wanikani that I found out that mnemonics are very effective for me. I also include their sentences from the book too. Though without Kindle, it’d hard to do all this, since it remembers what word you looked up and the corresponding sentence.
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Well, I’m not using anything at the moment, but I used to use Floflo as my instant dictionary, adding all words that I found interesting.
Problem is that it kinda snowballed, and I now have a massive amount of reviews I’m not doing. I’m probably going to do a soft reset (instant burn anything above a certain level and send back to lesson the rest) then remove all my lessons for a fresh start. While I’ll probably miss on stuff by burning things I don’t actually know, it’s still less of an impact than simply not using the tool.
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お誕生日おめでとうございますsigolino先輩。How old does that make you now?
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Thanks 
23, about to have my middle life crisis.
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Good luck with your middle life crisis. At least try to do it in Japanese for practice 
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Hopefully more like a quarter life crisis. 
Happy birthday!
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Well, I’m not quite done yet, but at the very least I’m not late anymore. \o/
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I’ve read it 
I have to say, I really like how nice and friendly Reinhard is(actually, I guess most of the characters are. Well, a few of them at least). Just come up and save some random person who’s in trouble, have a nice chat with them, offer to help them with some random thing… all on his day off, too, if I recall correctly(I think he said that, at least). To be honest, that’s the part that made the strongest impression on me, so I don’t have all that much to say about the rest. I mean, Subaru’s description of him made it sound like he’s really impressive (though, I wonder how much of that may be influenced by the fact that he just saved Subaru’s life. We only see things from Subaru’s perspective, after all)
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I used use houhou and I built floflo to deal with some of its inefficiencies. It’s a lot more lax than wk and houhou as well. Helps estimate the difficulty of a book while letting you read above your level through prelearning.
I know I’m the one who built it but I feel like it’s signifcantly more effective than other SRS because you don’t waste time making cards and you know you’ll be using every single card you learn
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I had a question about a part in this week reading. It’s the part where :
Subaru ask to the fruit owner if he saw 偽サテラ。Can someone tell me if my interpretation of it is good?
Close to the end of part 4
I Believe Subaru speak first
やべぇ、ありえないポカやらかした。まさか捜しにいかなきゃいけないのか？」
That’s bad, it’s impossible (???) Don’t tell me you have to look for her?
「何をぶつぶつと……ああ、クソ。あのな、そんな騒ぎなんざ珍しくもなんともねえよ」
What are you talking about? aa kun? It rare that she doesn’t make a lot of noise.
「答えてくれたのは嬉しいけど、マジで!?
I will be glad to answer you but really?
Can someone help me understand this part? cause I don’t understand the exchange.
Second question
Slightly after that, is the owner tell Subaru he won’t give him answer since he doesn’t pay but then change his mind because someone helps his girl???
@Ditto20 I really like Reinard. As much as I want to tell how if he is impressive or not that might be a spoiler. Unless you don’t mind me listing some of his abilities. We already read that The チンピラ called him the holy knight
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I haven’t reached that part but, (ps: also, sorry for FUBARing the spoiler tags, this is hard 
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That sounds like Subaru indeed.
ありえない means impossible. ポカ is a mistake. やらかす means to make a mistake as well (especially in soccer and net用語 ref: https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/やらかした) so it would mean something like “Damn, I have made a crazy error”
Don’t tell me I have to go look for her
ぶつぶつと（言う) means to mutter under one’s breath. Subaru was actually talking to himself.
" aa kun?" (Sorry to laugh).
I believe that’s a so ソ not an n ン
あのな is kinda meaningless, just something like “y’know”
珍しくもなんともねえよ is actually 珍しくない (not rare) with a も for emphasis and a なんとも for MORE EMPHASIS. Emphasis for days. -> absolutely not rare at all/ there’s really nothing special about it.
Total sentence: “What are you grumbling about? Ah, [expletive]. Y’know, that kind of commotion ain’t nothing special.”
“I’m glad you answered my question, but… Seriously!?”
I don’t know yet
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For the second question, if I remember correctly the owner does say that he changed his mind from before because another broke person helped find his daughter(and Subaru then thinks some stuff about how it seems like the daughter still got help even if he wasn’t there)
And I think I’ll just wait until whenever we get there to see more about Reinhard and see for myself then 
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The owner tells him it was 白いローブに、銀髪. So it was actually Satella who saved her again. Subaru understands that even when he’s not with her she ends up saving the little girl.
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yeah, I realised as much, but I didn’t remember how explicitly it was mentioned and didn’t want to say it if it wasn’t obvious, but I guess it was, so thanks for helping fill in that part
(That’s the downside of just answering questions from memory instead of actually opening the book)
Actually, I checked that part again, and unless I checked the wrong part, while I do think it’s her, that’s actually not explicitly mentioned, and Subaru really does just think that “someone” will help the daughter regardless of what happens, so I guess I did remember correctly (or checked the wrong part, I’m not going to deny that possibility)
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It does seem funny seen that way. I was thinking maybe there was someone named kun. so he was like “Aaa Kun?” Like remebering something. Since some people are named two letter word. chin,kan,pan something.
Thanks for the help. Makes much more sense.
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