📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 🍁🍂

Japanese Language Reading
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Nov 30, Wed of Week 10 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

  • Pocket Monster Special Vol.1 Ch.4-8

For yesterday’s post, thank you to @natarin for correction. The Pokedex entry suddenly makes sense.

It is said that Pikachu is pretty smart.

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Ch.4 features a flyer with Furigana. Otherwise, Pokemon moves feature lots of Kana words otherwise replaceable with Kanji, just like A-nya talk. Well, early Pokemon games too.

HP has a Furigana of Hit Point . Gym really being a training gynasium.

The next chapter has a rat man.

  • かがみの孤城 (上) 91% (Ch.8 December)

Barely touched this one. My listening is further now.

Interesting vocabularies
  • 臨場感(りんじょうかん) realism, but 臨場(りんじょう) is simply just appearance on stage.
  • 電光石火(でんこうせっか) lightning speed, from Pokemon move
  • 精鋭(せいえい) good seed. Has a related vocabulary 少数精鋭(しょうすうせいえい), probably like 選(えら)ばれし者(もの).
  • 体力満(たいりょくまん)タン the latter half (満(まん)タン) is actually full (満(まん)) tank (タン)
  • 先制攻撃(せんせいこうげき) Why did sensei attack (攻撃(こうげき))? Of course, first half (先制(せんせい)) is a qualified vocabulary of its own. The meaning similar to 先手必勝(せんてひっしょう) perhaps.
  • 強暴(きょうぼう) not that hard to guess, but the dictionary presents two other variations with slightly different meanings (凶暴(きょうぼう),      狂暴(きょうぼう)).
  • とっちめる to teach a lesson. Kanji form is 取(と)っちめる, shortened version of 取(と)って締(し)める.
  • 権威(けんい) an authority = rights + menacing
  • 生体実験(せいたいじっけん) experiment on a living person or animal
  • うろこ scale (of dragon-like). Like loitering child. Kanji form is 鱗(うろこ), so yesterday featured 鱗粉(りんぷん) (of an insect).

Phrases

  • 馬子(まご)にも衣装(いしょう) perhaps Japanese people likes to dress ponies.

Forgotten ones

  • 水族館(すいぞくかん) I definitely have seen this one before like 水族館デート.
  • もろに sounds like まるで?, but actually more of もろとも or 諸々(もろもろ)
  • 下(さ)がる can mean to step back; and 外(はず)す can mean to dodge.

As for this Challenge’s recap, I get a feeling that I still need to read more to collect vocabularies; even if I want to improve my listening first. I can collect vocabularies much less via listening, although grammar might be observed either way. So, I would continue to read most days, next month too.

About light novel or manga, perhaps it is not as important in my current stage as I have thought before; but having attached audio, like VN or subtitle, should help a lot. It still matters as for ease of reading, or comfort.