📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 🍁🍂

Japanese Language Reading
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Dec 15, Thu of Week 12 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

  • Death Note Vol.5 Ch.43 (end volume)

Deadly meeting. Actually, I watched anime a little ahead.

Sorry, but I skimmed two vols ahead just now. – 計画通り –

  • うたわれるもの (a little less than 1 hour)

Night camp and girls. (See vocabularies :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:)

Interesting words
  • ドジ = blunder
  • ボヤキ = grumble. Verb form being ボヤく, meaning to ぶつぶつ.
  • 楽(らく)チン = easy-peasy
  • 競馬(けいば) = horse-racing
  • 召喚(しょうかん) = summoning
  • 魔物(まもの) = demon
  • 夜泣(よな)き = crying (of an infant) at night
  • 災厄(さいやく) = calamity = 災難(さいなん)
  • 人事(じんじ) = human affairs (personnel’s)
  • 母子家庭(ぼしかてい) The first part is 母子(ぼし) = mother and child.
  • 兼(けん) = combination
  • 専念(せんねん) = undivided attention. Think, specialized attention.
  • 請(う)ける = to receive a contract / to redeem = 請(う)け負(お)う / 請(う)け出(だ)す
  • 安直(あんちょく) = simplistic. Cheap and direct.
  • 定石(じょうせき) = standard tactics. Like a standard targeting stone?
  • 一環(いっかん) = make a ring / a part of a ring
  • 巡回(じゅんかい) = a patrol
  • 発覚(はっかく) = disclosure
  • 具(ぐ)だくさん = full of ingredients. Well, 具沢山.
  • 世辞(せじ) = flattery
  • 泥濘(ぬか)る = to get muddy. However, such places are called 泥濘(ぬかるみ). An alternative verb form is indeed 泥濘(ぬかる)む.
  • 開墾(かいこん) = cultivation (farming) of a wasteland
  • 塩梅(あんばい) = seasoning
  • 調理(ちょうり) = cooking. Just like 料理(りょうり).
  • 湯水(ゆみず) = hot and cold water. Also means things to use plentifully, wastefully.
  • 湯浴(ゆあ)み = taking a bath
  • 格別(かくべつ) = special
  • しなやか = nimble. Perhaps like a high quality 品(しな).
  • 余所余所(よそよそ)しい = being distant. Of course, 余所(よそ).
  • 煮(に)えたぎる = to be boiling hot / to be on a rolling boil. There is even more Kanji’d form 煮(に)え滾(たぎ)る. (Put in for the sake of Yomichan).

SFX

  • もたつく = to catch もたもた = slowing down
  • ヨボヨボ = tottering like a toddler / unsteady gait
  • ズラリ = in a row / in a line

Phrases

  • 遜色(そんしょく)がない = by no means inferior to. Japanese people just don’t like the color / feel of a 孫(まご) or a son (子孫(しそん)), standing on a scooter.
  • 舌鼓(したつづみ)を打(う)つ = to eat with much gusto. The drum alone is called 鼓(つづみ), and Kanji also used in 太鼓(たいこ).
  • 我(われ)に返(かえ)る = to come back to one’s sense