📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 🌸 🌱

I believe he is (purposefully?) misunderstanding what the other person said. They asked him to leave, and he answered ‘as if I am)will be here just because I was asked to’ or something? I really thing this sentence needs context for sure.

Btw, I default to 居る for いる. If that doesn’t work, 要る. Very rarely have I encountered another meaning of いる in kana form, that also wasn’t obvious from context. If at all. :thinking:

So, agree with @Daisoujou here. :slight_smile: Which, on second thought, works all without the complicated misunderstanding situation I thought of.

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@Daisoujou and @Belerith

坊っちゃん

Unfortunately, the story moves on right after (“saved” by the school bell signaling start of classes). So I won’t know what 坊っちゃん does about the situation until later.

But it would certainly fit his personality to go all

Especially considering the developments at the end of the previous chapter.

So thank you both. This makes more sense with the actual text there. Will report later what ends up happening about this thing.

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Day (mumble) to day 29:

日本語: I read a lot of 冷たい密室と博士たち and finished it! Also a fair amount of TUGUMI and a fair amount of 三毛猫ホームズの推理.
Read-aloud: We read some of 蟲師. (And if I haven’t updated since before then, a different we read a chapter of ハイキュー.)

中国語: Every day I read an intermediate entry on Mandarin Bean and one page of 骑士幻想夜.

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I’ve been reading はなにあらし all of April so decided to pick up やがて君になる as a change of pace today. The chapters in that are a lot longer than はなにあらし (はな only as like 12-15 pages a chapter while やがて君になる is closer to 40) so finishing a chapter takes a bit longer. I’ll probably switch between reading the two books throughout the month of May since I have a couple volumes left of はなにあらし.

Only read the first chapter of やがて君になる today but it was an interesting start to say the least. Nanami had quite the smug expression as she rejected a random guy in the opening pages :smile:

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Happy belated birthday and many returns of the day! @potatonaught

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Summary Post

Day 30: April 30th
What did I read?: ダイロクセンス Vol 1
How much did I read?: 23 pages
How long did it take me?: 39 min

Second chapter off to an intriguing start :eyes: As expected, Rui comes by to demand his camera, and…somehow ends up tagging along to a crime scene? (I’m still a little confused on exactly why/how this happens tbh but…it happens xD). In any case, he does his thing and has a vision of the crime again - this time we get a little more insight into how his power works, though it’s still pretty vague. Very psychic detective vibes~ Also I cannot get over how so many people know who Rui is. Like…??? I’m envisioning him as like a Tiktok celebrity or a Youtuber doing magic tricks or something idek :rofl: Please show us what makes him famous, I want to see~

Good words
  • 逢引 (あいびき) - (secret) date; clandestine meeting; assignation; tryst; rendezvous
  • 芸能人 (げいのうじん) - performer; entertainer; celebrity
  • 横流し (よこながし) - diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels
  • 鑑識 (かんしき) - forensics; (criminal) identification; crime lab
  • 後処理 (あとしょり) - after-treatment; post-treatment; post-processing; dealing with the aftermath
  • 猫かぶり (ねこかぶり) - feigned innocence or naivete; beguiling innocence; wolf in sheep’s clothing
  • 名誉毀損 (めいよきそん) - libel; defamation; slander; character assassination
  • 遺書 (いしょ) - note left by a dead person; suicide note; testamentary letter; will; testament
  • 言いがかり - false accusation
  • 滲む (にじむ) - to run (of liquid); to spread; to bleed; to blot​

@potatonaught Happy belated birthday! :3 :birthday:

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Day 30 / Calendar

Halfway there! (pretty much)

Today I’ve completed the last week of the ABBC book club, so now that’s 2 books finished under my belt. Kinda nice having only two to do on a given week for a bit, gives me more time to appreciate them better.

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April 30
Saturday is Spy x Family day! Episode 4 of the anime corresponds to chapters 4 and 5 in the first volume, so that’s what I read today. That’s it for the free volume! So of course I bought volume 2 lol. They got me!

Today was also read aloud day for Haikyuu book club. This week’s chapter was more action-heavy than dialogue-heavy.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! It was a very lovely day.

Progress on Tadoku graded readers
44 / 44 level-zeros
12 / 12 level-ones
10 / 10 level-twos
x / 18 level-threes

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lol I got May’s TokyoTreat box today, and this month’s noodles are kitsune udon, what Ochi had in the cafeteria scene I read however many days ago that was. This one’s Maruchan’s 赤いきつねうどん to be exact, though I have no idea what makes it red. I can’t read like half the ingredients and TokyoTreat doesn’t say in their booklet, but it’s not because it’s spicy, because it’s not, nor that it was supposed to be spicy, because TokyoTreat always says when something is spicy or sour and will even make it out to be very much so even though none of it ever actually is. Disappointingly. They’re all weaklings, apparently. Anyway, the soup wasn’t spicy, though there was a tiny packet of 七味唐辛子 included (barely enough to make it barely spicy). It was good. I’d have been more excited if I actually liked toufu lol but the texture is just awful. I picked it out before I did anything else.

I finished ch 2 of クールドジ男子 and read ch 3. 三間ぁー ♡♡♡. He’s so dumb I love him. (Although that could be said for all of them…)

I love him… Also, I didn’t expect it, but it seems his default personal pronoun is 僕. At first I’d thought he was just using it to be more polite, but even in his internal monologue he uses 僕, so I doubt it.

I can’t wait until I get to ch 5, Hayate’s and Mima’s “date” a.k.a. their first meeting outside of a small animal café. (Hot iced coffee…)

Also I watched the PV today and each of the characters only has like one line but aaaaa Umeyan’s voice sounds so good… I’m gonna fall in love with Mima even more. No! Stop! He’s already my fave!! Augh, why’s October gotta be 5 months away??

I finally started ch 1-5. SCOUTING of 2.43. I read 2 pages, putting me at pg 82. It wasn’t clear from the anime, it seemed like it was all the same day, but when Kouhei pretends to be feeling unwell and excuses himself from practice to go spy on Seiin is three days after they watch the recording of one of Seiin’s matches. Also Ochi specifically goes out looking for him because Yuuhi’d seen him doing perfectly fine not long before lol

Also I’m counting these because I read the subtitles/lyrics:

The last one was a lot harder since it’s faster and my reading speed ain’t up to par yet, but I got the gist of it from it and the audio. Also, tons of cute kitties! So yeah, I found a new artist I like, and I’ll definitely be watching more of their music videos at some point.

Some vocab of note:

絶好調 (ぜっこうちょう) [noun, な-adjective] in perfect form; going swimmingly
乗り切る (のりきる) [ラ五, transitive] to get through (adversity); to weather; to overcome; to get over; to tide over; to survive
ありったけ [adverbial noun] all that one has; all that there is; the whole
口癖 (くちぐせ) [noun] pet saying; favorite phrase
思春期 (ししゅんき) puberty; adolescence
神曲 (かみきょく) [noun] It’s a slang word meaning “incredible song; great song”
覇気 (はき) [noun] spirit; drive; vigor
腹ごしらえ (はらごしらえ) [noun, する verb] having a meal (before doing something); fortifying oneself with a meal

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April 30th (Calendar Post)

Bookclub day 2:

ゆるキャン△ => 26 Pages
シメジ シミュレーション => 12 pages (59 minutes)
夜カフェ => 11 pages

I was very distracted today and forgot to measure my reading time >.<

Some fun panels:

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#shakingHands

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April 30 :cherry_blossom: Home Post

I played more Zero Time Dilemma today! Not a whole ton, at some point my brain decided to start watching Jujutsu Kaisen again instead, but not a bad day all around!

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Day 30 :heavy_check_mark: :milk_glass: :japanese_goblin:

告白 ~ 11% to 14%
ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 27 pages

I’ve written about 告白 earlier, so not much to add. Uncomfortable things keep coming up (and it’s bound to get worse). There has been mention of a student conducting experiments on animals and eventually killing them. Thankfully there were no details and I hope there will be none in the future. Animal abuse is one of the few things that I can’t bear to read about even in fiction.

In other news, this ゲゲゲの鬼太郎 story turned out to be more involved than I expected. We meet an awesome youkai called ほうこう (the lack of kanji in his name is driving me crazy), who, among other things, likes making everything (and everyone) into pickles.

ほうこう pics

ほうこう can use his teeth as bullets - and they’re laced in powerful anesthetic!
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He can split into the four elements: 水ほうこう、火ほうこう、地ほうこう、風ほうこう:


(Which of course means one element can be used against another to defeat him…)

Here he is relaxing after a hard day of pickling:
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Beautiful nature panels


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Fun words from ゲゲゲの鬼太郎

バラ色 - rose coloured, but also rosy/bright (for future, prospects, life, etc)
がめつい - greedy, tightfisted, calculating
自由がきかない - restricted, confined, unfree
命からがら - for dear life, barely escaping alive
毒消し - antidote
台無しにする - to spoil, to ruin, to make a mess of
ほっぺたが落ちる - to think something is delicious
油断のならない - treacherous, sneaky, cunning

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1st of May
Day 31

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to read three pages today, just the rest of page 42 of かがみの孤城. My shift got extended by one and a half hours, and some unexpected things cropped up, leaving me with only a two-hour interval to study (while I was still mentally exhausted from work) and an hour of downtime (which I used up writing my study log post and this post, as well as reading and my evening WK reviews).

It’s only 9:30 but I want to sleep in about ten minutes since I only had five and a half hours of sleep last night my fault though, me and my book addiction again :roll_eyes: :joy: . I’ll get a good night’s rest banning myself from picking up a novel other than かがみの孤城 and refresh my mind and body for a fun and big day ahead I have planned for tomorrow!

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May 1, Sun :cherry_blossom: home post

Week 6 of Spring 2022’s planning (1st week of May 2022)

  • Committed, and paced - for the sake of discussion
    • Night Cafe :shrimp: Ch.5
    • Death Note :notebook: Vol.3 Ch.11
    • Happiness :drop_of_blood: Ch.5 (It’s somewhat re-reading, but who cares)
      • Also, I am already committed to the whole series, even if the discussion after the first vol dies down. But what are the pace and methods of reading, that I still learns well?
  • Committed, with マイペース(my=pace)
    • Yuru Camp :tent: vol.1 - first half = 3-4 chapters
      • Reason: it’s a kind of manga that I research around a lot on real places and real activities (camping / food). I will also read real non-fictional Japanese, if I have to.
      • Of course, I have already bought and read a little.
    • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 2 - A few more chapters
    • (1/5) Wanted :skull_and_crossbones: - Eiichiro Oda - will try to finish the whole book.
  • Listening (Yeah, I can’t find :sound::sound: Listening everyday challenge…) and my focus is not Extensive Listening :ear: yet; more of learning to graze.
    • 3 grammar listening
    • 1+ casual listenings

I might start Japanese writing later once I get more comfortable with listening; and has some nice inner voice.

April 2022’s recap

I think that the most important factor is to set learning goals here, is that it is not too short, nor long. Too short (imo, daily), is hard to keep consistent in the first place, and can be tiring / burdensome; or too long (imo, monthly; but it is too easy to speak ill of something in retrospect), and it will be inconvenient to push forward to reach the goals.

Still, I might eventually slow down to monthly, if I want to focus a little less on Japanese language.

About the vocabularies, I feel like there are too many vocabularies to learn in depth. I could as well give all enough attention; but not too seriously…

Other than resources I previously found useful (Goo progressive JE; Wiktionary; Jisho/ichi.moe’s parsing; Prosody Suzuki; Japanese Wikipedia; ググる), I found that Kotobank may have the definitions or explanations I need (more than Goo JJ or Weblio sometimes).

May 2022’s planning

I plan to get into two areas that were too hard to reach before.

  • Listening - while I can listening to anything, and not making so much sense; it might be better to listen to something I can’t afford to miss - grammar. And of course, grammar can be apply elsewhere as well.
  • Writing - I can indeed write, and open a dictionary a lot; but that would be unnatural, and perhaps unfun. I want to do it better, and not feeling uneasy enough, to make writing a regular activity.

As always, I am finding better ways to learn from reading (language-wise; also, Kanji-wise); and listening.

I think it is only the second month of the challenge, that I can still say so much.

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:tiger2: :books: Tanuki Den (aka Homepost): Date 20220501 :cherry_blossom: :raccoon:

Tanuki Scroll XXXI: 火車 (妖怪) :fire::cat::fire:

Today I read about 火車「かしゃ」the fiery yokai cat chariot that is said to devour the bodies of the dead.

It’s been awhile since I’ve read a wiki article and I was surprised at how fast I could read each sentence compared to last time.


:seedling: Japanese found in the tall grass :seedling:

New Things

悪行「あくぎょう」ー Evil deeds; Wickedness
積み重ねる「つみかさねる」ー To pile up; to accumulate
正体「しょうたい」ー Identity; true form; true colours
檀家「だんか」ー Family which supports a temple; parishioner
出棺「しゅっかん」ー Carry out a coffin; funeral procession
妙八「みょうはち」ー Myohachi (instrument), little cymbals on string used in Buddhist ceremonies.
古典「こてん」ー Classic, like “classic literature”; the classics
奇異「きい」ー Odd; strange
参照「さんしょう」ー Reference - like a dictionary reference, or a footnote
「へん」ー Older way of writing: 編 (compilation/volume (of text eg.))
使者「ししゃ」ー Messenger; envoy
下半身「かはんしん」ー Lower half of the body
雷鳴「らいめい」ー Thunderclap; thunder
轟き「とどろき」ー Roar; rumble; booming

Places
播磨国「はりまのくに」ー Harima province, now part of present day Hyogo prefecture.
宍粟市「しそうし」- Shiso city, Hyogo prefecture
八幡浜市「やわたはまし」ー Yawatahama City, Ehime prefecture

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May 1st!

Today I read chapter 5 of 夜カフェ.
I’m still finding it tough to get the hang of reading a novel. There is so much text compared to manga!
But I’m managing it, even though each chapter takes me ages :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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I’m alive! Unfortunately I did next to no reading while visiting my friends. I guess you could count replying to a language exchange partner each day and skimming JP headlines, but when I’m used to 10-30 pages a day checking a box for 5 sentences feels like cheating :sweat_smile: Anyways, I plan to get back on the wagon this evening. I did my best to catch up on everyone’s posts, and some small replies:

This book is one I want to read. I’ve heard a lot about it and it seems right up my alley. I think I also have a copy of the movie somewhere…? But it looks like only one person has rated it so far, and that can throw things a lot.

Spoilered for sensitive:

Pretty bad. I’ve only ever seen it in movies but it strikes me as akin to calling someone a ‘homo’ but not quite up to the level of the F word?

Also, re animal cruelty if that does come up again I might nope out of reading it too. It’s also my only “crime too far”. :grimacing:

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Today was a pretty good reading day! I read the full section for かがみの孤城 🪞 Week 23. It went pretty quickly even despite a surprising number of unfamiliar kanji.

Like this sentence

城が輪郭を失って、ぐにゃぐにゃに捩れているような錯覚に陥る。
(Noting that 捩 looked significantly different in the font of the book than on my mobile.)

The action is really gearing up at this point, by the way :smiley:

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Summary post :bookmark:

May 1st! :cherry_blossom: :eyes:

・薬屋のひとりごと (75% → 78%)

Finished chapter 26.

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Quick update for the month:

I started 2 days late but then only missed one day. It’s been a busy month and I haven’t been able to read as much as I wanted: I’m still catching up on 2/3 bookclubs and I’ve only managed to play バリアブルバリケード for a bit over 10h even though I had some holidays. However, I’m still feeling a little bit of progress and an improvement on my reading speed (at least for the current books/VN), so I’m happy I’m following the challenge and hopefully for May I can do some more!

I’d say I’ll update more frequently too, but that hasn’t happened yet so…we’ll see.

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