📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall/Autumn 2021 🍁🍂🦝

Japanese Language Reading
#388

９月１５日：

What did I read:

  • 大海原と大海原, Pages 19-26

All I can say is that despite not knowing quite a few words, it’s a pleasant feeling to read a text and actually understand what you read. Even if it’s all with furigana which decreases difficulty to easy by default. Story wise, Wadanohara and her familiars returned to their homeland because of some “urgent magical task”, and chapter ends with a witch from withes country sensing they are back home, and saying that that sea is unfamiliar. Actually looking forward to what going to happen next. I didn’t play the game, so I’m out of the context, so I’m interested as to why Wada lost her memories and who’s the mysterious guy she’s trying to remember is.

Words I didn’t know: 急用, 故郷, 舵, 心地, 聴こえる, 風船, 割る, いじめる, いい加減, 着く, 慣れる

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#389

Home post

Day 14:

日本語: I read a fair amount of パノラマ島綺譚, some of 鋼の錬金術師, some of 地縛少年 花子くん (finished v1), and a bit of 魔王城でおやすみ.

中国語

中国語: I read 买耳环.

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#390

Summary post

September 15
・Started Honzuki 6. (4% → 6%)

@Zakarius I got the ChipTM installed today - maybe kanji automatically floating in my brain will help me read faster like it did for you, hehe.

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#391

Tanuki :raccoon: tanuki

You’ll wake up tomorrow fluent in Japanese! I’ve had both power-ups now, but I think the second one reversed everything because my head’s all jumbled with kanji again.

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#392

Summary Post

Day 15: September 15th
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 41.

Lazy and quick update today because sleepy :sleeping_bed: .

Two weeks in!

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#393

Fall Challenge Calendar!!!

９月
月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 :raccoon: 16 :sloth: 17 :fox_face: 18 :maple_leaf: 19 :raccoon:
20 :fallen_leaf: 21 :fallen_leaf: 22 :fallen_leaf: 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30
１０月
月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 02 03
04 05 06 07 08 09 10
11 :dart: 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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#394

Sleepy update from me too: I meant to read another little bit of 魔女犬ボンボン, but instead somehow ended up reading … 9% of ふらいんぐうぃっち on Bookwalker?

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#395

I’m all for this. :blush:

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#396

Summary post

Day 15: September 15
What did I read?: 雨と君と
How much did I read?: 16 pages
How long did it take me?: 26 min

Surprise! Tanuki day~
I had a weird work schedule today so not a lot of time to read. But there was so much cuteness D:

Tanuki goes to the beach

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Why is it so cute :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Look at the way it holds this shell in its tiny paws

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Also we run into some German (I believe) speakers? Who see the tanuki's superior cuteness and behave accordingly

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Honestly, same

Somehow this moment of running into the foreigners reminded me of when I visited Japan and it made me cringe hard because I’m the most awkward person alive interacting with strangers in another language hhhhhhhhh I remember all the interactions I had and uhhh pretty much all of them make me hate myself
:upside_down_face: :upside_down_face: :upside_down_face: :upside_down_face:

Anyway, here are some words

  • イメトレ - training method in sports, etc. where one imagines how a scenario would play out; mental rehearsal; mental preparation; visualization (for practicing a skill in one’s mind)(practising); practicing under simulated conditions (e.g. while watching a video)​
  • 食べきれない - more than one can eat

Welcome welcome @ImpactFrames and @slimeborge! :wave: :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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#397

Summary Post

Day 15: Read another two pages of よつば＆！There were several kanji I had to look up this time, so it took a little longer, but it was fun! :smiley:

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#398

home post

In the office today but stopped at a park on the way in and read 4 pages/1 mini-chapter with a coffee. Finished a story arc today and the story did not arc in the way that I expected it to. It was a ghost story and it went a bit more X-Files than Scooby Doo, which surprised me in a book for 8 year olds. Those kind of cultural differences are always interesting when you’re reading in another language, I think.

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#399

14.9.
About 2 pages of 使ってはいけない日本語, this week’s short story for the beginner book club, 眠い町, and a couple pages of 人間失格.

15.9.
I read about half of chapter 6 of キノの旅. Almost done with this reread. :slight_smile:

Nothing exciting here. :sweat_smile: I really should pick up the pace on 人間失格 if I want to finish it this month though.

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#400

Summary

September 14
:maple_leaf: 14
total: 81/100

  • カラフル (40 → 44%)

September 15
:maple_leaf: 15
total: 82/100

  • カラフル (44 → 48%)
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#401

Streak Count: I don’t remember and I’m too lazy to count, but I think it’s still unbroken?

To be honest, I’m just here to complain about those times they just throw a bunch of nouns together.

「南大阪産業廃物処分業組合みなみおおさかさんぎょうはいぶつしょぶんぎょうくみあいの理事長でした。」

Even they knew it was annoying to read, since none of those words ever required furigana before.

It’s not a hard sentence, my brain just wants to nope out when faced with something as long as 南大阪産業廃物処分業組合.

Complaining done now. ^^

Happy reading, everyone!

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#402

:fallen_leaf: :raccoon: .☆:TANUKIDATE: 20210916:☆. :raccoon: :fallen_leaf:

Day XVI: 雨と君と :raccoon:

Seeing Tanuki’s surprise visit to the beach I had to read the tanuki today and I had to read it now (thankfully I have some free time this morning), so I read the first three free chapters of 雨と君と.

It was difficult focusing on reading because of the constant distraction of sheer cuteness, but I made it, and now I don’t know what to do with myself.
Too. Much. Cute.
:raccoon: :raccoon: :raccoon: :raccoon: :raccoon:

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#403

Home post - September 16 - Another very sleepy day where I only read 1 page of 大海原と大海原 - although that was after spending a few hours going through vocab sheets and notes for another book I previously read to add vocab to Anki - and going through vocab sheets for a few books I plan to read to do the same. Time to sneak in an episode of anime before I call it a night T.T

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#404

:ballot_box_with_check: Day 16

Read section 2, a few pages which pushed me halfway into chapter 5 in 手紙!

I don’t know how to feel about the current plot. The beginning has me trusting no one and nothing, so everything always feels so tense. Like lately there’s a girl that’s pursuing dating Naoki. Which would usually be kind of cute (I love love). But he’s not that into her (he actively changed his bus route to avoid her) and she got ahold of his address by following him to his door??? She did send him cute letters… But that’s also stalking?!? Not cute. Whether it happens or not, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Sleepy, so I’ll post new words next time!

:raccoon: :raccoon: Main Post :raccoon: :raccoon:

I almost complained about this yesterday! My word is: 帝都大学通信教部. Yours is 12 characters long, so you win. But even at 8, and being able to tell the meaning, it’s still not fun to look at :sob:

:raccoon: :maple_leaf: Hello to everyone who’s joined in the last couple of days!! :maple_leaf: :raccoon:

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#405

Thanks! I’ll make sure to use this :pray:

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#406

Home post

Day 15:

日本語: I read a fair amount of ミステリと言う勿れ and a bit of 魔王城でおやすみ.
Read-aloud: We read a chapter of 7SEEDS (and finished v19).

中国語

中国語: I read 立春.

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#407

９月１６日：

What did I read:

  • 大海原と大海原, Pages 27-33

Wadanohara and her familiars are on the way to their home. Just when they’re about to return, Kuromaki catched up to them and passed to Wada something what’s important to her, but she forget in Witches country because she was too nervous. Wada is disstressted by the fact that she forgot this thing and says sorry to Kuromaki who went out of her way just to deliver this item.

Words I didn’t know: 鮫, 飛ぶ, 追いつく, 困る, 殺風景, 冗談, 大事, 届ける

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