日26 
今日の日本の本: 発表会 (はっぴょうかい)
I read this lesson a few days ago without lookin at the English ver. I thought I got the gist of the situation but aparentaly I was off just a bit.
so I saw
Ps. I looked up the kanji for neighborhood cuz I was curious and it’s
おやすみなさい ya’ll (－.－)…zzz
よこそう,(we)
Day 26: September 26
What did I read?: 雨と君と Vol. 2 
How much did I read?: 12 pages
How long did it take me?: 14 min
Project is going well, and I might…might be able to finish it close to on time (or at least closer to on time than I previously thought possible 
). I’m feeling…strangely unbothered about it. It gets done when it gets done. Apparently we have passed through the frantic stressed out phase and entered the zen phase.
So many cute tanuki panels <3
Good words:
付箋 (ふせん) - post-it note (I like the second kanji a lot)
洗い熊 (アライグマ) - raccoon (I feel like maybe I’ve heard this word before, but “washing bear” is the cutest name for “raccoon” ever)
野生 (やせい) - wild; growing wild; living in the wild
Not at all, welcome! 
I think I can speak for everyone in saying we feel like the opposite of minding - welcome aboard!
wishing you the best for today @chrisosaurus! hope the surgery goes well and wishing you a speedy recovery 
Day 18 (9月 26日) 
What did I read:
雨と君と 
I forgot to tell you guys, but it arrived in the mail on Saturday!
Read around 9 chapters, some 47pages, 30min.
I can’t take it, it’s so so so cuteeee
helppp aalkskrf
Also read 暁のヨナ, only half of chapter 37 bc I was getting so sleepy…
Home post - September 27th - I did some light reading today by re-reading a graded reader I read a while ago, one of my early favourites, as a way to see how far I had come - it was an absolute breeze. Tomorrow I might try an audio book version of it or another story.
Today was 女の子
A very very simple story both in terms of narrative and grammar, but I think the first graded reader where I really felt “wow, graded readers can actually have narrative” - so I wanted to revisit it.
Surgery went well, from tomorrow things will get much worse once the anesthetic fully wears off. See you all on the flip side and thank you all so much for the support =D
Took a day extra to finish reading through volume 3 of Polar Bear Café Today’s Special. With that I’m caught up to the current releases. I’m kinda proud seeing the volume of work I read through, there’s about 150 chapters shared between the two titles. Adding up Yotsuba and that’s about 250 chapters. Trying to get to the next milestone, which is 25 volumes (I’m at 22 now).
My physical backlog has slinked back a lot over these past months. I have been thinking about what to read next, either reading the Dai spinoff or returning to one of the books I put on hold. I should also assess what I have on kindle. Aside from manga I have made some way into Tobira (chapter 3) and Skyward Sword (about 30 hours in). So things are progressing nicely still.
Day XXVII: 鬼の腕 
Today’s 百物語 is about a disembodied demon arm getting revenge.
“この腕は、女房みたいなものだ。”
I erm… I’m not gonna ask.
ある冬 - think I’ve seen this ある[year/season/day etc.] before but must have looked over it. Meaning “one winter”, ある日 - “one day” (but not in the counting sense).
Thought I hadn’t seen this kanji before: 離 - it’s on level 31. 
土葬 (どそう) - the story gives an explanation of this one: burying a body in the ground instead of cremation.
線香 (せんこう) - incense stick.
Day 26:
日本語: I read a lot of はめふら 10 (and finished it), then read a fair amount of はめふら 11.
中国語: I read 闰年 and 四和十.
Sept 27 - I read a short paragraph about the “Japanese economic miracle” because I have a text to read on this topic for my next Japanese class
Passing N2 gave me the opportunity to switch master’s and find a job where I can use Japanese. While it’s very exciting, I feel very under qualified for both my master’s and my job - Japanese ability-wise 
I’m going to do my best this year. 
September 27th
Satori Reader: Secret, episode 49.
Day 27: September 27
What did I read?: 雨と君と Vol. 2
How much did I read?: 15 pages
How long did it take me?: 14 min
I think working on the weekend is catching up to me, oh no
I’m so exhausted I want to cry. But also fall asleep. I want to cry and fall sleep simultaneously, this is a very weird feeling
I only read one chapter today, but it was pretty cute - we met some of the girl’s friends. But one of them said the tanuki wasn’t cute, like how even dare D:< She did make him some special gyoza later, though, so I guess she’s ok 
Good words:
懐く (なつく) - to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed
ドンビキ - being put off (by someone’s words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); being left speechless
仲間はずれ (なかまはずれ) - being left out; being ostracized
がっつく - to be greedy; to devour greedily
Thanks to everyone for sharing their encountered words, its always fun to pick up vocab like this by accident - although I don’t try get them all, occasionally one will jump out at me and its free learning.
I love this word 仲間 + 外れ makes sense, added it to Anki =D
Seriously considering giving 雨と君と a go at some point.
Ohh this is helpful, I’d seen ある日 but I wasn’t sure how far that pattern could go, super useful to encounter this =D
Another great word!
Day 19 (9月 27日)
What did I read:
2 small news articles from TODAI Easy Japanese news app.
One was about a typhoon about to hit
And the other was about UK having a shortage in working hands (after Brexit basically) and offering 5000 working visas to employ truck drivers and poultry workers. This one had some unknown words tbh.
緩和 relief; migration; alleviation
養成 training
促す which is WK early 30s I believe and I COULD NOT REMEMBER SOBS
方針 policy; pla; objective
陸運業協会 Land Transport Association
物流業界 logistics industry
人手不足 labour shortage
就労 ビザ working visa, work visa
家禽 poultry, fowls
離脱後 after withdrawal (from EU, in this context)
欧州連合 EU🇪🇺
ちょっと遅刻しまう。。。
I started reading every day in late August, might as well try to keep the streak going for another month. This is a big improvement over my previous best of 14 days 
Apple Books might not be the best reader, but I like being able to set yearly and daily goals.
I was wondering if anybody checked those! I’m glad it serves you or anyone else good 
. I actually blur the readings for anyone that would like to practice and give it a guess. I too tend to check what everyone else is reading and what words they’re encountering, not everyday, but quite often. And also the tanuki pictures and other cute stuff that you peeps upload.
You’ll see that I add some words that I added already days ago or weeks ago, because I bump into stuff I don’t remember adding 
. But hopefully that helps reinforce.
I probably will try to read some more manga tonight but after procrastinating my actual work by browsing the threads here, I found the very helpful link to some free very simple Japanese books that someone posted and so I read a couple of the level 0 graded reader books. I’d love to say I flew through them with ease but there were still one or two things I had to look up. Still felt good 
::: TANUKIDATE 20210927 ::: 
