Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Single Day” Challenge, Spring Edition! :cherry_blossom: :seedling: It’s springtime - a time of blossoming trees and new growth :seedling: Doesn’t that seem like a great time to grow your Japanese reading skills as well? If you’re looking for a way to help your re…

The new challenge thread is live!! (If you are still continuing your reading from the Spring challenge, please feel free to keep posting/updating in this thread until the new challenge officially starts on July 1st :blush:) [image] booksbooks Read every day challenge - Summ…

May 17, Tue :cherry_blossom: calendar post Week 8 of Spring 2022 ’s progress I’ve read JoJo and Yoru Cafe , and felt that there are some interesting things regarding vocabularies. 四()次()元() fourth dimension The text is , that is, 四 has (just a little more) special reading, but it isn’t Furigana’d.…

[image] Book9: And since it is fairly episodic (every chapter is self containing, at least mostly as far as I understand?), I should be able to stop after one volume and read something else if I want something with more story. Mostly this, yeah. Sometimes a few chapters are pretty directly co…

[image] Daisoujou: Mostly this, yeah. Sometimes a few chapters are pretty directly connected, but that’s more of a technical correction than anything meaningful for you because every volume break provides a pretty natural stopping point; it’s only mid-volume that they do that. I figured as mu…

▶ Adding onto my little JLPT digression

Finished the big chapter near the end of かがみの孤城, so I’m really happy with that! Only one more chapter and the epilogue to go. I’m tempted to just continue and finish now, just like others in the book club have done. :smile:

May 17 My friend saw Spirited Away for the first time last night, and it reminded me about to check on tickets to the livestream of the stage adaptation . The frustration thing is that even on vpn, Hulu Japan won’t let me create an account, and without an account, I don’t think I can purchase a tic…

May 17th! I finished the first volume of ふしぎねこのきゅーちゃん today. I’d definitely recommend it for anybody who wants something with low text density thats easy to stop and start when you don’t have much time. I’m definitely going to read the next volume too, but I’m reading quite a lot of different boo…

I’m running short on time today, and something’s been really wrong with my wrist/hand, so I’ll keep it short. Read a little over 7000 characters again, so still hitting that goal. [ゾンビ] There’s nothing too exciting in the image part here – but I need evidence there were zombies. (Well ok it was a…

[image] Daisoujou: New word: 蝕む (むしばむ), either “to be eaten by worms” or “to spoil/ruin/affect adversely/etc.” Extremely intuitive word, even the kanji is like bug + eat. Well, you have to know the word 食む, but when you do, it’s a a free word indeed :slight_smile:

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Japanese Language Reading

Redglare May 17, 2022, 9:03pm 1965

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May 17th

・薬屋のひとりごと 2 (20% → 25%)

Finished chapter 4. The chapters in this book definitely feels longer than in the previous book.

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