I wasn’t sure if I would participate this time around, but I will give it a go.
Here’s my best attempt at a calendar, I hope I didn’t mess up the days.
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| 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | … | … | … |
Read here if you want a calendar of your own
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Reading material
- 大海原と大海原 with the ABBC
- からかい上手の高木さん Vol (2) ABBC offshoot
- チーズスイートホーム
- 王様ランキング - been meaning to tackle this since Sept 2019 when I picked it up in Japan
- A bunch of the ASK graded readers
- Super Mario Odyssey in Japanese Japanese Quest playing through it
- 逆転裁判 (Ace attorney) I’ve started working my way through the script and adding unfamiliar Kanji to Anki in preparation for trying to play the first case
- レイトン教授と不思議な町 (Professor Layton & the curious village) I’ve started typing out the game’s dialogue and text along with capturing photos to try distill some core vocab & grammar into Anki to prepare for playing the game proper
- 鬼滅の刃
Updates / Log
= highlights
- Sept 1st 大海原と大海原 ~ 3 pages
- Sept 2nd 大海原と大海原 - 3 pages
- Sept 3rd 大海原と大海原 - 2 pages, finishing the prologue
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Sept 4th 大海原と大海原 - 3 pages + re-reading prologue to populate vocab sheet
- Sept 5th 大海原と大海原 - 2 pages
- Sept 6th 大海原と大海原 - 3 pages
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Sept 7th 大海原と大海原 - 3 pages
- Sept 8th 大海原と大海原 - 2 pages, finishing ch. 1
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Sept 9th 大海原と大海原 - 6 pages, started ch. 2
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Sept 10th 大海原と大海原 - 6 pages, finished ch. 2
- Sept 11th 大海原と大海原 - 2 pages, started ch. 3
- Sept 12th 大海原と大海原 - 4 pages
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Sept 13th 大海原と大海原 - 7 pages, finished ch. 3
- Sept 14th 大海原と大海原 - 2 pages + typing up first chapter of 王様ランキング
- Sept 15th 大海原と大海原 - 1 page + skimming some 王様ランキング
- Sept 16th 大海原と大海原 - 1 page + lots of reading to make flash cards
- Sept 17th 大海原と大海原 - 1.5 pages
- Sept 18th 大海原と大海原 - 3.5 pages
- Sept 19th 大海原と大海原 >= 4 pages, finished Ch.4
- Sept 20th 大海原と大海原 re-reading ch.1 to answer question + チーズスイートホーム 2 pages
- Sept 21st チーズスイートホーム ~ few pages
- Sept 22nd 大海原と大海原 2 pages + sentence mining + grammar sentence mining
- Sept 23rd 王様ランキング mining kana words for first chapter
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Sept 24th レイトン教授と不思議な町 - typed out
2941 screens of dialogue / text to start mining - Sept 25th very slowly working through dialogue from レイトン教授と不思議な町.
- Sept 26th lots of A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar + going through notes from 王様ランキング and 大海原と大海原.
- Sept 27th re-reading graded reader 女の子
- Sept 28th re-reading graded reader ハチの話
- Sept 29th re-reading graded reader 七夕 織姫と彦星の話
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Sept 30th re-reading graded readers ジョンさん日本へ, 浦島太郎, and 笑い話
- Oct 1st x2 graded readers どうして猿の尾は短い？／どうしてクラゲは骨がない？ and バス
- Oct 2nd graded reader about 着物.
- Oct 3rd graded reader どうしてエビの体は曲がった？どうしてねこ年がない？.
- Oct 4th graded reader 舌切り雀
- Oct 5th graded reader ジョンさんの夏休み.
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Oct 6th all the things (mostly 王様ランキング vocab)
- Oct 7th 2 pages of チーズスイートホーム (1) finishing ch. 9 + 王様ランキング vocab.
- Oct 8th graded reader 絵姿奥さん, 王様ランキング vocab work, helping friend with teeny bit of やがて君になる.
- Oct 9th Started new graded reader, lots of work on 王様ランキング.
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Oct 10th graded-reader 桃太郎 + 9 chapters (10 - 18 incl.) of チーズスイートホーム (1)
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Oct 11th final 2 chapters (19 and 20) of チーズスイートホーム (1)
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Oct 12th started 鬼滅の刃 and read ~ 2.5 pages
- Oct 13th reread first 3 pages of demon slayer
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Oct 14th 5 pages of demon slayer + helping friend breakdown with やがて君になる (1)
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Oct 15 - Demon slayer 9 pages
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Oct 16 - Demon slayer 12 pages
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Oct 17 - Demon slayer 13 pages + 1 page graded reader
- Oct 18 - Demon slayer 3 pages
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Oct 19 - Demon slayer 6 pages finishing ch.1 + 4 pages from graded reader
- Oct 20 - Demon slayer 2 pages
- Oct 21 - Demon slayer 2 pages
- Oct 22nd Some Demon Slayer + Graded Reader 2 pages
- Oct 23rd Some Demon Slayer + Graded Reader 2 pages
- Oct 24th Demon Slayer 6 pages (started chapter 2)
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Oct 25th Demon Slayer 18 pages (finishing chapter 2)
- Oct 26th Graded Reader 2 pages
- Oct 27th Demon Slayer 1 page + Graded Reader 1 page
- Oct 28th Demon Slayer 3 pages
- Oct 29th Demon Slayer 1 page + Graded Reader 1 page
- Oct 30th Demon Slayer 2 pages + Graded Reader 4 pages
- Oct 31st Demon Slayer 3 pages
- Nov 1st Demon Slayer 1 page + Graded Reader 2 pages
- Nov 2nd Demon Slayer 3 pages + Graded Reader 7 pages
- Nov 3rd Demon Slayer 2 pages + Graded Reader 7 pages
- Nov 4th Demon Slayer 7 pages
- Nov 5th Demon Slayer 3 pages
- Nov 6th Demon Slayer 2 pages
- Nov 7th Demon Slayer 1 page
- Nov 8th Demon Slayer 2 pages
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Nov 9th Demon Slayer 27 pages
- Nov 10th Demon Slayer 7 pages
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Nov 11th Demon Slayer 35 pages (all chapter 7 and most of chapter 6), finished volume 1
- Nov 12 - graded reader 2 pages
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Nov 13th - wadanohara 15 pages (all of chapter 5), 2 pages from ABBC colours, demon slayer game
- Nov 14th - graded reader 3 pages
- Nov 15th - wadanohara 8 pages (starting chapter 6), going back over some hard demon slayer snippets
- Nov 16th - wadanohara 1 page
- Nov 17th - wadanohara 2 pages
- Nov 18th - graded reader 1 page, working on demon slayer character summary page, working with friend to decipher their manga
- Nov 19th - graded reader 2 pages
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Nov 20th - wadanohara 5 pages (finished chapter 6), graded reader 15 pages (finishing my last graded reader)
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Nov 21st - wadanohara 17 pages (all of chapter 7 and bonus content, finishing volume 1)
- Nov 22nd - Demon slayer 2.5 pages
- Nov 23rd - Demon slayer 6 pages
- Nov 24th - Demon slayer 1.5 - 2 pages
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Nov 25th - Demon slayer 8 pages finishing chapter 8 (in 3 days)
- Nov 26th - Demon slayer 7 pages (start ch. 9)
- Nov 27th - Demon slayer 10 pages (fin ch. 9 in 2 days?)
- Nov 28th - Demon slayer 7 pages (start ch. 10)
- Nov 29th - Demon slayer 12 pages (fin ch. 10 in 2 days)
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Nov 30th - Demon slayer 23 pages (start ch. 11, fin ch. 11, start ch. 12) + demon slayer game
- Dec 01st - Demon slayer 1 page + old sentences + lots of demon slayer game
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Dec 02nd - Demon slayer 31 pages (fin ch. 12, start ch. 13, fin ch. 13) + demon slayer game
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Dec 03rd - Demon slayer 8 pages (start ch. 14) + lots of demon slayer game
- Dec 04 - 9 pages
- Dec 05 - 4 pages (finished ch. 14, started ch. 15)
- Dec 06 - 2 pages
- Dec 07 - 1 page
- Dec 08 - 1 page
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Dec 09 - 10 pages - day 100 of reading \o/
- Dec 10 - 4 pages (finished ch. 15, started ch. 16)
- Dec 11 - revisiting 2 pages (168, 169)
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Dec 12 - 22 pages (finished ch. 16 and volume 2) + 10 pages (started volume 3)