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

[iterimpius]

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Day 16 (9月 24日)
What did I read:

歴史366 , 3 stories, ~25min

Day 17 (9月 25日)

-上級への扉 会話文3, just 5 min
-articles , suggested by a discord member, this one about 鳥居 gates (has furigana)
and this one about the top 紅葉viewing spots in Fukuoka! I enjoyed both of these soo much, the last one really stirs the wanderlust within me, I wanna go to Fukuoka now…
both articles took me 75min, bc I kept looking up the words and writing them down. temple and location readings always give me such a headache <3
-暁のヨナ, bookclub read-aloud, chapter 36 (later today!)

several words!

笠木 かさぎ coping; top rail
柱 はしら pillar; post
基 き counter for machines, foundation
貫ぬきcrosspiece (between pillars, etc.); penetrating tie beam
参道 さんどう road approaching a shrine​ (architecture)
俗界 ぞっかい secular life
降臨 こうりん descent (to earth, esp. of a god); advent
奉納 ほうのう offering
参拝 さんぱい visit to a shrine or temple; paying homage at a shrine or temple
満喫 まんきつ having enough of (food, drink, etc.); fully enjoying
例年 れいねん average (normal, ordinary) year
石垣 いしがき stone wall
櫓 やぐら turret; watchtower
憩いの場 いこいのば place for relaxation and refreshment
隣接 りんせつ adjoining；neighbouring; adjacent
大広間 おおひろま banquet or reception hall
樹齢 きれい age of a tree
盆地 ぼんち basin (e.g. between mountains)
崇める あがめる to revere; to respect; to worship
敷き詰める しきつめる to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
悟りを開く さとりをひらく to achieve enlightenment; to attain enlightenment
聳える そびえる to tower; to soar

[iterimpius]

@Aislin

You’re scaring me When I was doing the N3 version I was actually pleasantly surprised that texts felt much easier than what I’m reading for pleasure - mostly that I didn’t need to use dictionary, which was a good thing since that were supposed to be, well, exam texts And well, grammar felt straightforward, and they were so short and friendly.
Now I’m worried how big the gap to the N2 level will be.

oooh please don’t let our expiriences put you off! At least as far as I’m concerned, I know it’s definitely my lack of vocabulary and grammar and reading in general! That aside though, the N3-N2 gap is there indeed

@chrisosaurus

As mentioned I’m going in for surgery Monday

Wishing you all the best for Monday! May everything go smoothly, Chris!

[valkow]

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Day 24:

日本語: I read a fair amount of はめふら 10.

中国語

中国語: I read 我的一天. Word added: 吃饭.

[Natsuha]

I replenished my energy by ordering and eating some chinese food. Being full of power I read over one page of the パラサイト・イヴ book.

useful vocabulary 生体機能薬学講座
Yeah that’s one word, it should mean something like Department of Biofunctional Pharmacology or Department of Medicinal Biochemistry. Something like that even exists in real life, it’s not a made up word. It should be added to wanikani.

[Zakarius]

::: TANUKIDATE: 20210925 :::

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Day XXV: 人の嫁になったネコ

Today’s 日本の昔話 story is about a man marrying a cat?? … okay

Saw this word in another story but noting it down so I remember better: お百姓 (ひゃくしょう) - Farmer, peasant, country person.

ゴロゴロ - Rumbling

[Redglare]

My tiny summary post

September 25
・Honzuki 6. (27% → 29%)

Words and expressions

本気(ほんき)を出(だ)す・to make a serious effort
精(せい)を出(だ)す・to work hard, to work diligently
捗(はかど)る・to make progress. (I like how it has the finger radical and kanji for to walk)

手間(てま)・time, labor
パラパラ・sound of flipping through a book
めくる・to turn pages of a book. (This makes me think of the Wotakoi opening song, lol)

通例(つうれい)・custom, general rule
率(ひき)いる・to lead, to command (a group)
涎(よだれ)・drool

[popleraa101]

25日
今日の日本の本:日本人の知らない日本語
Ok sooo apparently there is a show for this マンガ too, soooo I will be watching that (in 日本語 subs), might not understand everything but I feel like it’s good to hear 日本人 talk because that hepls with the accent. The one page that I read, I quickly got the gist of what was happening. did I understand all the words? いいえ. But hey it was a good read that helped my long day!

@iterimpius

this one about 鳥居 gates (has furigana)

Just booked marked the website. the article intrigued me and now it’s a goal, ありがとう！

One more thought for the road… is 友人 (ゆうじん) only used for when one is not exaclty talking about a friend (person) or?

[rikaiwisdom]

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September 25th
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 48.

Random words

• 暴く = あばく to disclose, to expose, to divulge.
• 報道 = ほうどう news, report.
• 裏側 = うらがわ reverse side, hidden side.
• 海浜 = かいひん seashore, seaside.
• 海辺 = うみべ beach, seashore.
• 圧倒 = to overwhelm.
• 横顔 = よこがお profile, face in profile.
• 大人びる = おとなびる to be or to become adult-like.

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[tiny_river_otter]

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Day 25: Read another two pages of よつば＆！I didn’t have to look up any words today, even to double check, which was nice!

[windupbird]

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Day 25: September 25
What did I read?: 雨と君と Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 12 pages
How long did it take me?: 16 min

I worked most of the day…why does this project take so much time D: The annoying thing is that I would actually really enjoy this project if I felt like I had adequate time to complete it and really dig into it. Story of my life. -_- Anyway.
These chapters killed me with cuteness - the tanuki has seriously turned the cuteness up to 11 in this volume.

The tanuki started growing in his winter coat and he looks so soft D:

So floofy

もふもふもふもふもふもふもふもふ

But then he caught a cold

Tanuki burrito

Plus I got some bonus reading practice trying to figure out what the heck is going on in this random flyer I found inside the manga xD

Is the cat gigantic, or is it just perspective? (I think it’s perspective, because on the back there are some more illustrations where it looks like it’s normal cat size. But I was momentarily very excited about a manga involving a giant cat xD For a sec I thought maybe the premise was like…the woman’s husband turned into a giant cat. Isn’t there a manga like that? Or am I making that up? I don’t know why that’s where my mind went )

Good words (I guess I'll put them in here since leaving them out would kind of defeat the purpose of the spoilers I put above)

しょぼしょぼ - dejectedly; gloomily​
めげる - to be discouraged; to shrink from
換毛期 (かんもうき) - molting season
風邪気味 (かぜぎみ) - slight cold; bit of a cold; touch of a cold; lingering cold
おくるみ - covering used to wrap a baby

@Zakarius

Today’s 日本の昔話 story is about a man marrying a cat?? … okay

Omg what
Wait

In honor of my flyer, I feel like I have to read this now

[iterimpius]

@popleraa101

One more thought for the road… is 友人 (ゆうじん) only used for when one is not exaclty talking about a friend (person) or?

友人, generally speaking is more formal, polite than 友達！you might use it in a more formal situation etc, but the nuance is the same, both words express someone who is your friend. Link , HiNative

Glad the 鳥居 article picked your interest!

[chrisosaurus]

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September 25 very slowly working through dialogue from レイトン教授と不思議な町.
It turns out there are 2 versions of this game in Japanese, they first released a version without furigana, and then later released a “friendly version” with furigana. I had been expecting to have furigana, but then I thought I must have misremembered. Finally put 2 and 2 together. I’m kind of having fun battling Kanji, although I’m also a little tempted to spring for the furigana friendly version, but that seems wasteful now.

September 26 today is the last day where I can use my left arm for a while, so trying to get a bunch of typing tasks out of the way =p
Been trying to crunch a bit more WK than usual as I’ve been slacking off lately and surgery will only make that worse.
I’ve also been mining grammar and vocab from 王様ランキング and 大海原と大海原.
But my main task today has been working through A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar to make Anki grammar cards for grammar points I’ve encountered in my reading, so even though I didn’t make any progress reading through a story today, I still read and worked to understand a lot of Japanese - so I’m counting it.

Over the next few days I’m hoping to keep up some form of reading, it might end up being graded readers as I can usually work them out in my head - whereas a lot of my other reading material is complex enough that I want to take notes and do more formal breakdowns.

I’m sorry I keep mentioning my surgery , I mentioned it as my reading has been a bit different lately and will likely be weirder for a while more still, I wasn’t trying to elicit sympathy from anyone but I really do appreciate all the wishes and thoughts =D

@fustian_garb

Fingers crossed for you that it all goes well!

@Redglare

Hope surgery goes well and that you’ll have a speedy recovery!

@Zakarius

Wish you all the best, hope it all goes smoothly and you have a quick recovery!

@iterimpius

Wishing you all the best for Monday! May everything go smoothly, Chris!

Once again, thank you all very much

See you all on the other side, although it may be a while before I post any updates

@Redglare

Wait, is this the game you and the others have been talking about? I must have missed it, I’m kinda lost xD

I spoke about this game briefly above but I didn’t make it very clear what I was talking about =p

I posted a photo of the game arriving (but I didn’t mention the name in text, I linked to some discussion on it from the summer club).

[Akifuyu]

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Sept 22 to 26 - I was able to continue 僕らの天使ゲーム every day except on Thursday because I was too tired to read. My two-year apprenticeship is starting tomorrow and I really hope I’m going to have enough free time to keep up with WK + my other hobbies I’m now at page 151/354.

Vocab

• 所轄 (しょかつ) : jurisdiction
• 頭蓋骨 (ずがいこつ) : skull
• 陥没 (かんぼつ) : collapse
• 鈍器 (どんき) : blunt weapon
• 失神 (しっしん) : Syncope
• 厄年 (やくどし) : unlucky year (I want to learn more about this later haha)
• 煽情的 (せんじょうてき) : sensational
• ノイローゼ : Neurosis
• 素行 (そこう) : behaviour
• 殊更 (ことさら) : intentionally
• 苦渋 (くじゅう) : bitterness
• 喪失 (そうしつ) : loss
• 破滅 (はめつ) : destruction
• 出世 (しゅっせ) : success in life (interesting word!!)
• 均整 (きんせい) : balance
• 迂闊 (うかつ) : careless
• 無断外泊 (むだんがいはく) : staying out overnight without giving notice
• 自嘲 (じちょう) : self-deprecation
• 事も無げ : careless
• 怪訝 (けげん) : puzzled

Sentence I liked

この男、おそらくこれまでに挫折というものを知らなかったに違いない。勉強も、仕事も、結婚も、子育ても。だからこんなにショックを受けているのだ。それに比べると、花井のこれまでの人生なんて挫折だらけだ。 → 挫折( ざせつ, failure (e.g. plans, business) ) だらけ that’s probably my future too

@chrisosaurus

today is the last day where I can use my left arm for a while

I wish you all the best for tomorrow too!! See you when you feel like posting / when you can post again

[Aislin]

@chrisosaurus

then alter released a “friendly version” with furigana.

Owww, I didn’t know about it.

@chrisosaurus

I wasn’t trying to elicit sympathy from anyone but I really do appreciate all the wishes and thoughts =D

C’mon, this thread is all about peer support, right?
I also hope you’ll have a speedy recovery!

[TheGreywolfMunch]

Day 26

I haven’t posted here in a while, and I haven’t been reading everyday either, whoops. I read two pages of Kiki today though! Since I’ll be away from home and not bringing the book I’ll read some free manga I collected from Bookwalker instead for the next four days.

[Aislin]

Summary

September 22
22

• かがみの孤城 上 (6 → 7% text+audio) Okay, good place to stop for a while, so now I’ll try to finish カラフル first.
• カラフル (48 → 50% text)

September 23
23

• カラフル (50 → 52% text)

September 24
24

• 文豪ストレイドッグス21 (85 → 100% Finally Finished )
• カラフル (48 → 52% audio)

September 25
25
total: 92/100

• カラフル (48 → 52% audio once more because I kept falling asleep the day before)
• カラフル (52 → 53% text)

→ Changed how I use the audiobook version. Before I was trying to read and listen at the same time, but switched to read first, listen later. I was too frustrated with constantly pausing the audio
→ カラフル spoilers!
The letter from the mother was interesting, and gave her a nice depth, even if I don’t relate to her life choices. (But then again, I’m personally fine with being average. I’m struggling with perfectionism, but I want to be irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, and thinking of myself as average gives me comfort, because that means my choices don’t matter that much, which helps with perfectionism… yada yada)
And I think protag was definitely too harsh with her. I also wonder what it is with the mother denying that there are any severe personality flaws regarding the father. I was wondering from the start if the angel can provide a fake backstory, maybe even because that was how original 真 perceived some events.

[Redglare]

@chrisosaurus

I spoke about this game briefly above but I didn’t make it very clear what I was talking about =p

I posted a photo of the game arriving (but I didn’t mention the name in text, I linked to some discussion on it from the summer club).

Ohhh, then it makes sense xD I guess I was mixing bits of conversations

@Aislin

September 22
22

• かがみの孤城 上 (6 → 7% text+audio) Okay, good place to stop for a while, so now I’ll try to finish カラフル first.

I see I’m not the only one doing tiny reads

[popleraa101]

Ohhh ok thanks so much

[popleraa101]

@Aislin

かがみの孤城 上 (6 → 7% text+audio) Okay, good place to stop for a while, so now I’ll try to finish カラフル first.

teach me the way of the tiny words 先輩。下さい

[Zakarius]

::: TANUKIDATE 20210926 :::

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Day XXVI: クマとたぬき (16 page free preview)

@MaraVos thought I’d check out the manga you mentioned (thanks for suggesting it!)

Conclusion: Very cute. Must read.
I’m gonna need some serious funds for a book haul, because there is so many on the list now

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@windupbird

For a sec I thought maybe the premise was like…the woman’s husband turned into a giant cat. Isn’t there a manga like that? Or am I making that up?

えええぇぇ!! what a coincidence

@windupbird

Tanuki burrito

You know, I didn’t think the tanuki could get any cuter, but then I see this tanuki burrito and now I can no longer function how cute this much