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Japanese Language Reading
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Dec 16, Fri of Week 12 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

  • かがみの孤城 (下) 32% => 35% (around 1/20 of March, audio separately first)

幻滅された。

Bookmarks can be saved (a little inconveniently), with percentage, by scroll screenshot on Android. On web browser version, percentage doesn’t show. Sync can be done by pasting in Notion, where long vertical images aren’t shrunkened.

  • 史記 (front to page 44, half of Ch.1)

Perhaps around the start of 漢 Dynasty. I would be nice if I can associate names with my Chinese dialect… (where I don’t need Hanzi), not really the Mandarin one, and I don’t always find an answer. (I don’t give up the hope of learning Mandarin in the future, though. Perhaps next two years.)

  • うたわれるもの (1 hour)

Bind play

I also touched a little of BU$TAFELLOWS. So, I reinstalled on my Android tablet as @Book9 started the club, and has a good idea on how to make the VN linear, and not hurried; so now easily manageable.

Prologue + Chapter 1 is free on Android, but more than twice as expensive than Steam version. (Around 3.5 times.) However, Steam has no free version. (Steam is translated-to-EN sub version, though.)

Interesting words
  • ぎこちない = clumsy
  • 特典(とくてん) = special benefits. Extra stuff from the game.
  • 古今(ここん) = all times; ancient and modern times.
  • 野太(のぶと)い = audacious
  • 舗装(ほそう) = pavement
  • 雪融(ゆきど)け = melting of snow. Alternate version is indeed 雪解(ゆきど)け from 解(と)ける.
  • 両隣(りょうどなり) = both sides
  • 下卑(げび)る = to become vulgar. Also see 下卑(げび).
  • 上玉(じょうだま) = fine jewel
  • 盗人(ぬすっと) = robber. From 盗(ぬす)む + 人(ひと).
  • 苛(さいな)む = to torment. Compare 苛(いら)つく and 苛(いじ)める.
  • 無粋(ぶすい) = inelegant
  • 首尾(しゅび) = from beginning to the end
  • 絶世(ぜっせい)の美女(びじょ) = woman of unmatched beauty
  • 群雄割拠(ぐんゆうかっきょ). Literally perhaps collection of heroes, but split amongst factions.
  • 成(な)し遂(と)げる = to accomplish
  • 召(め)し捕(と)る = to arrest (e.g., of a police)
  • 見(み)せしめ = setting as example. I see as 見(み)せる + 締(し)める.
  • 心神喪失(しんしんそうしつ) = of an unsound mind
  • ほとぼりが冷(さ)める = things calm down. The particle changed to の in context. 熱(ほとぼ)り perhaps comes from 火(ほ)通(とお)り?
  • 身(み)ぐるみ = all one has. Dictionary suggests 身ぐるみはがれる and 身ぐるみはぎとられる, but in context uses 剥(は)がす.
  • 良心(りょうしん)の呵責(かしゃく) = pricks of conscience. 呵責(かしゃく) refers to tormenting. (Caustic words + Blaming)
  • 鵜呑(うの)みにする = to swallow whole (e.g. of a 話(はなし)). 鵜(う) is a cormorant :feather:.

SFX

  • じたばた = making a fuss
  • ざっくり = roughly
  • まごつく = to be confused, from まごまご
  • しおしお = dejectedly; in low spirits
  • もぞもぞ = creeping about
  • すっくと = upright (of standing posture)
  • ぱらり = dropping in small bits