📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 🧣🍂🍁

Japanese Language Reading
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Dec 18, Mon of Week 13 of Fall Q4 2023 :maple_leaf:

  • あなたも殺人犯になれる! Ch.6-8 (17-28%)

  • いちばんやさしい世界史の本 (5-6%)

  • STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.4 (1 hour 45 min)

Words of the day
  • ぽか. = blunder
  • ポケベル. = “pocket bell” = pager. That ancient messaging handheld.
  • 使つかい勝手がっての悪わるい = not user-friendly
  • 宮中きゅうちゅう = imperial court
  • 象形文字しょうけいもじ = hieroglyph
  • 写実的しゃじつてき = realistic
  • 流砂りゅうさ = quicksand. 流砂りゅうしゃ variant doesn’t work well with the Google IME.
  • 興亡こうぼう = rise and fall, e.g. of nation
  • ノアの方舟はこぶね = Noah’s ark. Also, ノアの箱舟はこぶね.
  • 舌足したたらず = unclear wording
  • 夜よなべ = working at night. Like doing 内職ないしょく.
  • 度外視どがいし = disregarding
  • 快挙かいきょ = spectacular feat
  • 骨ほねを埋うずめる = to devote the rest of one’s life
  • 手ても足あしも出でない = cannot do a thing; to be at wit’s end