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

[iterimpius]

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Day 13 (9月 21日)

What did I read:
only 暁のヨナ, midway to chapter 37, around 15min. Will look up words tomorrow today
It was such an exhausting day, morning job and then straight to tutoring children, I went home and my brain was fried… on top of that I did study some grammar from 新完全マスター bc I had to make sentences to show my teacher Hope today will be more productive!

@Zakarius

This was an interesting article and I feel I have learned more about the moon viewing, but… now I am positively hungry and financially conflicted.

I am positevely just as hungry and devastated after reading your entry, aaah, not sure I could counter those very very solid arguments about reusage of お箸, I’m just glad for my wallet that I wasn’t the one to be browsing that website.

Because I don’t remember if I guys told you, but this thread has had its hand in me committing amazon crimes already, and the other day this happened

and now I’m just waiting for the mail to arrive

[Aislin]

Summary

September 18
18
total: 85/100

• 文豪ストレイドッグス21 (52 → 65%)

September 19
19
total: 86/100

• 文豪ストレイドッグス21 (65 → 74%)
• かがみの孤城 上 (0 → 3% text) (i didn’t start something new no, no way)

September 20
20
total: 87/100

• 文豪ストレイドッグス21 (74 → 80%)
• かがみの孤城 上 (0 → 3% audio)

September 21
21
total: 88/100

• 文豪ストレイドッグス21 (80 → 85%)
• かがみの孤城 上 (3 → 6% text+audio)

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→ BSD manga continues to be so thiiiick Even 5% manage to exhaust me. (I’m at 21th volume, but am reading in Japanese only since 20th volume)
→ did some cleaning with my bookmeter 積読 & 読みたい sections:
^ only 1 next volume, even if I already bought more volumes because sale (several volumes of several series really started cluttering up the space)
^ only the most important stuff in 積読, even if it’s a little incorrect because it puts some already-bought-books in 読みたい
^ but that’s because 読みたい actually lets me set priority, so that way my reading priority goes 積読 → 読みたい ★★★ → 読みたい ★★☆ → 読みたい ★☆☆ → 読みたい ☆☆☆ (which doesn’t mean I can’t still shuffle stuff around, but at least that helps me grasp my current situation better)
→ considering prolonging my challenge to 108 days

[fustian_garb]

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I have japanese class on Tuesday night and had to some yoga in the morning before work because ouch knees ouch so didn’t have a lot of time for reading yesterday. I finished the first volume of こぐまケーキ屋さん. Most of the volume is 4 panel, 1 page comics but the last dozen pages are こぐま’s ケーキ origin story, so I’d been saving it to read in one sitting. I’ve already bought the next volume (actually the next 3) so I’m excited to read more of his adventures. They just released a gacha toy of the bear and it is killing me that I can’t get it.

This morning I read another chapter of それいけズッコケ三人組 which turned out to be 9 pages instead of the usual 4, so that was an unexpected surprise but does at least explain why it took me so long. Bit confused by the furigana in it - 広場 gets furigana despite both being grade 2 kanji but 幹 doesn’t despite being grade 5? First time seeing 幹 in the wild after learning it on WK though so that was nice. Learning yet more words for trees and slopes and hills, just when I thought I’d pretty much got them all covered.

[chrisosaurus]

Home post - September 22nd - 2 pages of 大海原と大海原 + going over all of the previous lines to mine for Anki sentence cards + making 20 grammar sentence cards from A Dictionary of basic Japanese Grammar all to hopefully shore up grammar which is by far my weakest point.

[fustian_garb]

@chrisosaurus

aking 20 grammar sentence cards from A Dictionary of basic Japanese Grammar

I do grammar cards from Minna No Nihongo with the english on the front and the japanese on the back and they are haaaard but so good for me.

[Zakarius]

::: TANUKIDATE: 20210922 :::

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Day XXII: First two chapters of: 夜は猫といっしょ

My brain is kinda mushy today (I think I read way too much yesterday) so I needed something light to read.

And:

@windupbird

CAT IS CUTE

…is all the convincing I needed, I managed to find the first two chapters as a free preview.

It is very very cute (very cute), and I quite like the art style of this one, it’s got a nice whimsical feel to it (I cannot handle the cat’s little faceahhhhh).

Another one for the reading list (thanks again @windupbird )

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@iterimpius

and now I’m just waiting for the mail to arrive

Yay Tanuki!!

[Axazel]

Day 21
Read section 2, the rest of Chapter 8 in 手紙! (looooong)

Day 22
Read section 2, Chapters 9 and 10 in 手紙！
I actually thought I wasn’t gonna maintain my streak today. But I thought, “let’s just read a paragraph and call it a day”. But it was a plot twist (I KNEW something was gonna happen!!) and the chapters were short.

Hang in there everyone! We’re doing better than we were before the challenge!

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[popleraa101]

Day 22
今日の日本の本: それでも歩は寄せてくる（１） 第１局とパージ:１－５

It’s definitely one of the (look up ever other word) books for me but I did read this manga before when it first came out in english (didn’t finish all of it though) so that makes it a little easier for me to understand what’s happening.

[Redglare]

My tiny summary post

September 22 Today’s tiny read:
・Honzuki 6. (24% → 25%)

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It is officially autumn in the northern hemisphere The fella on the photo must be the unique leaf tanuki

[Natsuha]

Sorry I was too lazy to post the last three days in this thread. But of course did I read everyday. I started the クドわふた manga volume 1, actually I already read half of the volume. It’s soooo cute Did I already mention that I have a weakness for cute manga?

[NicoleRauch]

Sept 19: Read a tiny bit of 乳と卵. Also, read a bit in the Shinkanzen N2 Reading book. Wanted to do the first lesson, but got exhausted already by reading the preliminary explanations in the book

Sept 20: Got around to doing the first lesson in the Shinkanzen N2 Reading book. These stories are always so crammed full with unknown vocab that I sometimes have a hard time understanding anything at all. Luckily this one went okay though Also, I think I read some more of 乳と卵.

Sept 21: Took another practice test (there are 3 in the set that I was required to buy for my prep classes, and the teacher will address the contents of those tests in different lessons). This one went much much better than the previous one. I will of course stick with studying more, but my spirits have been lifted somewhat by this result. (Also, I did the listening part of the first test at some point and scored 80% - if that’s indicative for the real test then this should carry me through it )

[valkow]

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Day 21:

日本語: I read a lot of はめふら 10, a fair amount of のだめカンタービレ, some of それでも歩は寄せてくる (finished v3) and a bit of 魔王城でおやすみ.

Reminder to self to read more 小川未明童話集

中国語

中国語: I read 闹钟, 又迟到了, 看电影, 生日, and 孩子的生日. It was great that I was motivated to do that many today, but one a day is also okay (<-- note to self to not get over-ambitious and end up not doing even one).

[Vanilla]

@valkow

: I read 闹钟, 又迟到了, 看电影, 生日, and 孩子的生日. It was great that I was motivated to do that many today, but one a day is also okay (<-- note to self to not get over-ambitious and end up not doing even one).

What are these? Like short stories?

[valkow]

I’m reading through the beginner category on Mandarin Bean. Each one is very, very short. Their simplicity, the hover-over dictionary, and the downloadable audio makes it perfect for me right now.

[tiny_river_otter]

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Day 22: Read 4 pages of よつば＆！One of the pages didn’t actually have any text on it so I read extra today. Also, the facial expressions in this part really got me

[Vanilla]

Ahh, ok. Until now, I wasn’t able to tell if you were a beginner at mandarin and reading one short story every day or advanced and reading like one book every day lol. The 5 in one day helped a bit in figuring it out.

[MaraVos]

月9 日21 ・ Another four pages! After the first page I wanted to stop, but convinced myself to at least read one more page. Then instead I read three, because I kept thinking, hmmm what happens next? I’m so excited that’s starting to happen from time to time!

And then in the afternoon I read a story from １０分で読める物語1年生, which I am rereading in order to keep a 読書ノート as they explain how to do in the back of the book. So I also wrote my thoughts on the story in Japanese.

Anki deck down to 758.

All in all a great day for studying!

月9 日22 ・ Read two pages. Nothing to write home about really.
Anki deck: 754 (although I did a lot more than 4 flashcards!)

[rikaiwisdom]

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September 22nd
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 47.

Random words

• 理系 = りけい science (subjects regarding science).
• 文系 = ぶんけい humanities, social sciences and fine arts; liberal arts (as opposed to 理系).
• 社会人 = しゃかいじん working adult, full-fledged member of society.

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[MaraVos]

Dear Tanuki Cuteness Brigade,

I was looking up こぐまのケーキ屋さん when I happened across … … … クマとたぬき!

I’ve pretty much only seen the cover and I’m already done for.

[windupbird]

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Day 22: September 22
What did I read?: 夜は猫といっしょ Vol 1
How much did I read?: 43 pages
How long did it take me?: 23 min

re: work - dying a slow and painful death
Re: cat - still cute :3

遊びのお誘い

Look at this little cat puddle

They tried to give the cat a bath and it went about how you would expect

Good words:
嗅ぐ (かぐ) - to sniff; to smell
波打つ (なみうつ) - to wave (e.g. in the wind); to heave; to pound (of a heart); to undulate (can also mean to dash against (of waves); to billow; to roll)
びんた - slap in the face; slap on the cheek
バレバレ - (of a lie, etc.) obvious; transparent​
舞い上がる (まいあがる) - to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up (can also mean to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits)

@iterimpius

and the other day this happened

@Zakarius

Another one for the reading list (thanks again @windupbird )

Lol I’m slowly turning the thread into a book club for cute manga…this pleases me
I ordered the second volume of the tanuki manga, it should be here tomorrow

@MaraVos

クマとたぬき !

What the heck, this is so cute, why is it so cute
slams the buy button