Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Single Day” Challenge, Fall 2022 Edition! :maple_leaf: :fallen_leaf: The weather is getting cooler, the leaves are changing…fall (or autumn if you prefer) is here! :raccoon: We all know that fall can be a busier time of year, making it harder to build or maintain that Japanese reading habit. What better way to keep your motivation up than to join this thread of lovely like-minded readers? :heart: If you missed the previous Read Every Day challenges, feel free to jump in on this one! We would love to have more people join in on the fun and experience the magic of the challenge :sparkles: A little history behind this challenge: last summer, @Redglare had the awesome idea of doing a “Read Every Day” challenge, where we challenged ourselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months - we liked this challenge so much that we decided to make it a recurring thing! :grin: Now we’re more than one year in, and the challenge is still going strong :heart: Every challenge thread has its own special flavor, but the one thing they always have in common is being positive, encouraging, and fun! There are also usually some cute manga involved :wink: Archive of Past Challenge Threads Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella: Read every day challenge - Fall 2021 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon: Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 :cherry_blossom: :seedling: Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 :beach_umbrella: :sunny: Why is this challenge so special, or what makes it unique? Well, we think it’s a combination of the short/limited time frame, the habit-focused (versus output-focused) approach to the goal of “reading more,” and the general atmosphere of camaraderie and community spirit that’s been present in each challenge thread thus far ^^ I can say from personal experience that these challenges have helped me read way more than I would have otherwise, and many people (including myself) have noticed significant growth in reading speed and/or stamina while participating in the challenges. Whether you are an expert reader already or a new reader just starting out, everyone is welcome to participate in this challenge! To quote @Redglare: This is a thread for people who: :bookmark: want to spend time reading a bunch this fall :bookmark: want to improve their reading speed and comprehension :bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress :bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of reading every day for two or so months :books: :books: Time frame: October 1 - November 30 This is the “official” recommended time frame, but late starters are absolutely welcome! This thread will be up and running until the end of December, so you can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you. Your reading materials can be whatever you want, be it manga, light novels, books, visual novels, magazines, graded readers, satori reader, Japanese webpages/blogs, or Japanese games - you name it, anything goes as long as it is something in Japanese :jp: :durtle_the_explorer: “Reading” can be interpreted creatively, if that helps keep you motivated - for example, some people have counted reading Japanese subtitles as reading some days. In general, we are a pretty flexible and forgiving bunch :wink: Threads worth checking out I recommend checking out The News Reading Challenge thread if you’d like to read news articles every day, but you are of course welcome to post about it in this thread too if you’d like to. The "news reading" challenge 🗞 If you don’t know where to find reading material I recommend checking out the Immersion/Reading section of the following thread: The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List! There’s also quite a few book clubs here on the forum, some of them have vocab lists which can make for an easier reading experience. A list of book clubs can be found here: Master List of Book Clubs poll Sonny the Durtanuki says, let’s get reading! (Our lovable mascot, created by @Axazel) [4C07F27B-6A3F-4475-B3C4-6AFAD6625894]

New challenge thread is live! If you’re still continuing from the Fall challenge, feel free to keep posting updates here until the official start of the new challenge on January 1st ^^ [image] booksbooks Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 snowman_with_snowsnowflake Reading Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Single Day” Challenge, Winter 2023 Edition! snowman_with_snowsnowflake Ah, New Year’s - always a great opportunity to refresh and restart grin New year, new thread, new challenge season! sparkles If your New Year’s resolution is to read more in Japanese or work through your backlog of manga/novels, this challenge might be just the thing to get you going. If you missed the previous Read Every Day challenges, feel free to jump in on this one! We woul…

Home Yesterday I read 初恋 by 一樹らい. You can definitely tell how much she loves kagehina lol (she’s drawn a bunch of kghn DJs as ぶぶん飯店), the main characters look quite a bit like them, though that’s about as far as their similarities extend. This story’s also kind of like the opposite of Boy Meets Maria, despite the similarities in premise. Both have an amab person who was raised as a girl for much of their childhood because of their mother, before finally deciding they’re gonna put themself first and live as a boy even if it hurts her, and then the main character falls in love with them thinking they’re a girl and still loves them after learning otherwise. (Oh yeah and there’s trauma, but definitely not the same type.) But Ichigo is certain of his gender, while Yuu doesn’t know what he is; and Taiga might worry a bit at first about whether he likes Yuu as a girl or as a boy, but he pretty easily decides it doesn’t matter and puts it behind him, while Yuusa has a sexuality crisis. They’re both really good in their own way. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that it includes the one-shot よりみち! I also read the first two chapters of 君には届かない。vol 2. I had to skim vol 1 first though since I kinda forgot what happened, plus I got part of it mixed up with 恋ではないと思いたい. Some vocab of note: 見殺し () [noun] letting (someone) die without helping

:fallen_leaf: Day 33, 2nd of November :maple_leaf: :open_book: Back to my Home Post Reading more of Kiki, this time checking my attempts at deciphering the grammar with ichi.moe. Obviously that isn’t a perfect solution, as just in the second sentence I found a new grammar point I hadn’t known before and which wasn’t shown there. のように / のような - similar to When you only know の to indicate possession, then the idea that it could be part of a phrase isn’t forefront in your mind. Really glad Bunpro exists! Searching through grammar points is incredibly tedious in a dictionary, so this is an excellent resource.

:maple_leaf: :jack_o_lantern: :snowflake: :christmas_tree: November 2 :christmas_tree: :snowflake: :jack_o_lantern: :maple_leaf: Home Post 夜カフェ２ :cake: I think a read a bit less than half the chapter, this is a slightly longer one than usual. The next stopping point was close enough to the end that I had a choice of either stopping or finishing the chapter, and finishing the chapter was probably another hour away. So tomorrow it is.

Home post :bookmark: Nov 2 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf: ・本好きの下剋上 12 (9% → 17%) Thought I wouldn’t have time to read today, so I read earlier than usual. Then I suddenly had plenty of time to read, so I read some more (was actually trying to take a nap this time). Encountered the word 嵩張(かさば)る today in Honzuki. It’s fun because I just learned it the other day from Spice & Wolf.

[image] omk3: I guess I need to slow down a little. :sweat_smile: I always forget it’s important to rest too :zzz: Erm… I wrote this 3 hours ago. After which I proceeded to read the first chapter (45 pages) of Junji Ito’s うずまき… Not even one of the books I had in progress, no, I had to go start a new one…I need help :see_no_evil: Anyway… Interesting words I came across: 駆け落ち - elopement, running away with a lover 手の施しようがない - beyond help 前触れ - advance warning, portent, omen And just look at the detail in this panel (nothing scary, I promise) [image]

[image] omk3: 駆け落ち - elopement, running away with a lover So I used this casually in conversation once to reference some friends of mine who eloped and was met with shock. I guess it has a very negative connotation in Japanese whereas at least where I grew up saying someone eloped just means it was done fast and/or quietly, but not necessarily a bad thing. Google says Today the term "elopement" is colloquially used for any marriage performed in haste or in private or without a public period of engagement. which matches my understanding, but I do also wonder if it’s true for everywhere English is spoken :sweat_smile:

I always forget to post in this thread. ボッコちゃん Today I read seven pages and finished the next short story. What I like about this book is, that sometimes rarer grammar points are used which you usually don’t see that often. Konosuba Vol.1 I read the next four pages. This book is pretty easy that means I don’t need to look up vocabulary that often.

Finished Chainsaw Man 6 yesterday. Will start 7 and probably finish that tomorrow since its my day off. I might even just binge read. Who knows. My addiction to YouTube seems to be waning a little so I might be able to focus more.

:maple_leaf: :turkey: November 2nd :turkey: :maple_leaf: (Home Post Link) Had a really odd day–not entirely sure what’s up, but was just in a really weird kinda melancholic mood when I woke up. Since it’s rainy season and the days get so short here, maybe I just haven’t been getting enough sun or something. Made sure to take a walk and dug out my sunlight lamp. Ended up spending a bunch of time playing stuff in English after work just to see if I could kinda shake off the funk, but to no real avail. BUT! I’m not willing to give up my streak, so power through I suppose. Tae Kim 144 → 151 – some nice clarification about giving/receiving verbs. Main new thing of note was て form + みる for trying things out vs volitional とする for making an attempt to do something. からかい上手の高木さん chapters 3 and 4. Kindle is working mostly fine so far, it’s kind of a pain to zoom in and read furigana because it kinda breaks and you have to wait for it to register, but this hasn’t come up a whole lot. It really messes up the pages in between chapters sometimes, maybe when I converted my epubs to aw3 I messed up somewhere Good Words 指導「しどう」ー guidance, coaching 爆笑「ばくしょう」ー burst of laughter 筋肉痛「きんにくつう」ー sore muscles 三日坊主「みっかぼうず」ー monk for three days (exp), someone who can’t stick to anything Reply [image] windupbird: Then you can read it with the Yotsuba club! We resurrected ourselves for volume 15, so I’m sure we’ll be gathering back together again whenever Vol 16 finally comes out :joy: Absolutely! Looking forward to it :smile: (at this rate it’ll just be another what, 2 years? :sweat_smile:) [image] pocketcat: `` which matches my understanding, but I do also wonder if it’s true for everywhere English is spoken :sweat_smile: I think it generally has a negative connotation in English too, it has a sort of accusatory tone for something that’s maybe not all that well thought out. I might use it to describe a situation to other people, but probably wouldn’t say it directly to the people who are eloping, if that makes sense. I usually associate it with romantic period works: Ethan Frome, Sorrows of Young Werther, Daisy Miller, that sort of stuff with a few hot headed lovers making some questionable decisions in their haste and passion, at least.

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lucylavelle November 2, 2022, 10:38pm 861

November 2nd!

Today I read Chapter 14 of Orange.
I think I’m getting a cold, since I’m a bit sniffly and headachy - so reading todays chapter took me longer than usual, but even though I find Orange quite a tough read sometimes I always enjoy it so much

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