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

[windupbird]

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Day 2: September 2
What did I read?: ハイ☆スピード!
How much did I read?: 4 pages
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 22 min

Omggggg it’s Rin
It’s Rin, guys
Rin and his cherry blossom pool dreams <3

I’m sorry, I feel like me reading this book is going to lead to a non-negligible amount of fangirling so uhhhh apologies in advance. Maybe one day I will learn to talk about the things I love coherently and eloquently, but today is not that day.

Favorite words from today:
静まり返る (しずまりかえる) - to fall completely silent; to become still as death
根掘り葉掘り (ねほりはほり) - inquisitively; pryingly; nosily; thoroughly; persistently; through-and-through

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I get notifications every time someone edits the participant list, and every time I see a new name pop onto the list it makes me happy Welcome everyone! And a special welcome to our first-time-posting-in-the-community-ever participants @Kez, @Mysbis, and @thezoyya, we’re glad to have you here!

@Omun

Sssh, don’t let @windupbird find out.

lol just kidding Happy to have you on board!

@Redglare

a tiny list? with tiny updates?

starts chanting “tiny list! tiny list!”
I love your tiny summary post so much so tiny~

[Redglare]

@rikaiwisdom

Also tiny welcome back @Redglare To be fair, your “tiny” challenge is probably more than my normal challenge, so don’t feel bad at all, rejoice cause you’ll join us again !!! Praise the crab.

Thank you! I’ve been so excited since I joined! Praise the crab!

At first I thought joining challenge while being busy would give me debuffs because it’s going to take too much of my focus and attention away from my studies, but it might not be a debuff after all? Like @Thud mentioned when convincing me, taking some time to read can be a nice break from regular studies. I think it’ll be great; instead of going from 100% fulltime JP student to 0%, I can continue by reading a tiny bit every day.

tiny happyglare noises x3

[Redglare]

@windupbird

starts chanting “tiny list! tiny list!”
I love your tiny summary post so much so tiny~

I’m glad you like it
Thank you for hosting the thread this round! Feels great to see so much activity and enthusiasm for this challenge

[NicoleRauch]

Bookmeter woes

@Aislin

I was convinced that Bookmeter is using Japan time for setting the date.

@Aislin

it was still August 31st for me, but September 1 in Japan. Aaand Bookmeter added it to the August count.

Hehe I noticed the same I think they are just trying to be smart here. Because when you finish a book somewhat shortly after midnight (Japan time), they seem to understand that you read most of that book on the previous day(s) and so they still add it to the previous day. (Which I think is a good feature, but anyway.) If you want it to go to the September count (btw, why? if you read it in August…) you can set the finishing date on the dialog that lets you confirm the book and enter your comments etc.

@Aislin

I didn’t want to make a mess and repost my summary

You can delete your initial post (there is a small x in the upper right corner) and then you can safely repost your summary I’m pretty sure you will lose the likes, though…

[fustian_garb]

Another 6 pages today, but at lunchtime as I had conversation class before work (Japan/UK time differences do not work in my favour…). If it hadn’t been for signing up for this challenge, I definitely would have skipped reading today. This chapter had a lot of puns about Kanji readings and mis-readings that made me laugh and I had to look up the katakana サインペン, although I could roughly guess the meaning from the context (it’s a felt tip pen).

[Rowena]

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2日目 9月3日

Today’s NHK News Web Easy article was 新あたらしい1万まん円えんのお札さつ 工場こうじょうで印刷いんさつが始はじまる

[vonnutje]

I failed to read something yesterday, but at least today I found some time again to read ^^

03/09
I read the second episode of Suzuki and Sakura on Satori reader! I think this is my favorite story so far. I am trying to work through the free content right now, but maybe I will buy the subscription this weekend So far I’m really impressed by Satori so the money will be well spend!

[chrisosaurus]

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September 3rd I read to the end of the prologue for 大海原と大海原 which seemed like a good place to stop, it was only 2 more pages of actual text and some more of just picture panels.

[Kez]

Thanks for the welcome!
Three days in I’m having a lot of fun, I have been reading the Ask Books Graded Readers Level 0 volume 1.
Surprisingly interesting content, the one about how the sakura (桜) bloom from South to North over several months in Japan, the festivals and activities around that. And another about soy beans, and their various uses. Including the Setsubun (節分) where people throw toasted soy beans around to keep demons out of their house!

[Axazel]

Day 3

Another short reading day! I just started the first bit of chapter 3 in 深夜特急. I want to read more, but on the other hand I’m happy with any progress

My only new word is 途方に暮れる = to be puzzled, at a loss.

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Welcome to everyone new!! Can’t wait to hear what you’re reading each day

[Zakarius]

.☆:STARDATE: 20210903:☆.

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Day III: アイアン・メイデン

Not a random article this time - today I bought Iron Maiden’s new album “Senjutsu” and thought… why not read about that in Japanese while listening? Seems fitting.

Though I can’t find a Japanese article about the actual release of the album, but I did find an article from a few weeks ago about one of the singles. So I’ll read that.

アイアン・メイデン, that is not how I expected “Iron” to be written in katakana. Looking on the Japanese Maiden-Wiki and reading the band members names - it feels like I could learn all the kanji (okay, maybe not ALL the kanji) and I’d still have trouble with working out katakana names.

I wonder what is more difficult to read, Japanese names in kanji or non-Japanese names in katakana

[sycamore]

@Slowopoke

Do you think I could try giving it a read after I learn Genki 2 grammar or should I wait til I have a more expansive knowledge of grammar? For me, vocab isnt always a huge issue its mainly grammar.

yeah! After covering N5 and N4 grammar I’d say you could give it a shot! worst that can happen (as happened to me when I first tried to read it quite a while back) is that you decide that it’s too much of a struggle and then you can put it to one side and try again later. And it will feel cool when you do come back later and find that you can read it so that’s still not a bad outcome!

I’d say for me (it might be different for others) what stopped me my first time through was mainly that I had such low reading stamina for reading in Japanese that the first chapter took aaaaaaages. I then switched to reading manga for a while and at least partly due to the last of these challenges, I went from a a chapter of manga feeling like a lot to read, to being able to (depending on the manga ofc) being able to read a volume of manga in a day if I was in the mood to do so. Then when I switched back to trying to read novels I found that it felt a LOT more manageable because I was less tired out just by the experience of reading in Japanese. So what other reading you have done in Japanese might also be a factor in how you find it? good luck with it! I’d say definitely get the audiobook if you can as it’s really good.

[valkow]

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Day 2:

日本語: I read some of 小川未明童話集, some of ミステリと言う勿れ, and a bit of パノラマ島綺譚. That last is a new book, and while both it and 乳と卵 are difficult, I can already tell that パノラマ島綺譚 is an easier kind of difficult for me.

中国語: I read 帮忙. I learned 着 as a ながら-type of auxiliary word.

I also edited in a read-aloud session on day 1 that I forgot about yesterday. We read two chapters of 7SEEDS.

[Aislin]

@windupbird

I’m sorry, I feel like me reading this book is going to lead to a non-negligible amount of fangirling so uhhhh apologies in advance. Maybe one day I will learn to talk about the things I love coherently and eloquently, but today is not that day.

I love hearing you doing the fangirling! Btw, I don’t think I thanked you for setting up the thread yet So thank you for taking the responsibility

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@NicoleRauch

If you want it to go to the September count (btw, why? if you read it in August…)

Normally I would agree but I want the count to go to some summary

@NicoleRauch

You can delete your initial post (there is a small x in the upper right corner)

That I noticed but I don’t want to because

@NicoleRauch

I’m pretty sure you will lose the likes, though…

Also I would feel like I’m cluttering up people’s feed

@NicoleRauch

you can set the finishing date on the dialog that lets you confirm the book and enter your comments etc.

but that is actually an excellent idea which I’m gonna use
Thank you for being awesome again

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@Redglare I love your tiny updates

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@valkow

but I find it interesting that I think I’m the only one here starting the calendar weeks on Sundays?

I thought it would be more common, because it’s something I see often in other places on the Internet I actually triple-checked if the calendar weeks are starting on Monday when I copied mine because I do have a strong opinion about it - it makes no sense to start a week in a middle of the weekend

[NicoleRauch]

@Aislin

Thank you for being awesome again

Awww

[Aislin]

Summary

September 2
2
total: 69/100

• メタモルフォーゼの縁側4 (40 → 67%)

September 3
3
total: 70/100

• メタモルフォーゼの縁側4 (67 → 100%)

[Redglare]

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September 3
・Read Honzuki 5. (77% → 78%)

I saw people add their bookmeter profile to their summary post, I guess I'll do that too.

[Akifuyu]

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Day 3

I didn’t have much time today but I managed to read a few pages of 僕らの天使ゲーム. I circled the words I didn’t know and I’ll try to look them up later. ^^

EDIT :

Vocab

• 飢餓 (きが) : starvation
• 飽食 (ほうしょく) : satiation
• 顧問 (こもん) : adviser
• 貫禄 (かんろく) : presence; dignity
• 矢先 (やさき) : the very moment (when)
• 虐待 (ぎゃくたい) : abuse
• 風潮 (ふうちょう) : tendency
• 沁み沁み (しみじみ) : keenly; deeply
• 機動隊 (きどうたい) : riot police
• 忽然 (こつぜん) : sudden
• 心境 (しんきょう) : state of mind
• 眉唾 (まゆつば) : questionable information
• 所轄署 (しょかつしょ) : competent police station
• 陳腐 (ちんぷ) : stale
• 大衆 (たいしゅう) : general public
• 低劣 (ていれつ) : low grade
• 迎合 (げいごう) : accommodating oneself (e.g. to public opinion)
• 挑発 (ちょうはつ) : provocation
• 毅然 (きぜん) : resolute
• 殊勝 (しゅしょう) : admirable
• 一筋縄 (ひとすじなわ) : ordinary method​

[NicoleRauch]

Sept. 3rd:

• Read next week’s assignment of 小川未明 stories (5 pages)
• Read 1 page of 糞尿譚

I hope going forward I can read more of 糞尿譚 than just one page per day Otherwise it will take me forever…

[chrisosaurus]

@Kez

Ask Books Graded Readers Level 0 volume 1.

I absolutely adored these stories, later collections have more gripping narratives, but I still really enjoyed the factual nature of the early books which made them easy to understand. It was fun learning about soy beans and sakura =D