📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 🌸 🌱

Japanese Language Reading
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May 28, Sun :cherry_blossom: home post

Week 9 of Spring 2022’s summary

Reading

  • The truth is I have read something else, but I might not dare post everything here (and I believe it’s not exactly few - Bookwalker burned quite a sum of money). Nonetheless, Death Note Ch.15 is read. Nonetheless, learning quality varies, depending on how calm I am.
  • I find Wikipedia readable, but depends on how focused I am; and perhaps the difficulty of the article itself. After all, it does depend on whether I can keep up my 我慢. 羅生門 is more difficult, however.
    • Not sure if 青空文庫 is not properly configured, especially on mobile. But with Kiwi Browser, I can open up DevTools and 1. set lang="ja" 2. style="line-height: 2".
  • I’ve found Doctor K, and it feels quite cool. With Furigana too - I am considering reading it.

Listening

  • I watched Yuru Camp Season 1 Episode 1, but it is not on Netflix (which started from Season 2). I believe it is essential, as a antidote to manga’s lack of Furigana.
    • I can’t find Japanese subtitle so far, and I have to watch multiple times (but not advancing the episode).
  • Some songs of my interest in the past; but many new songs in various thread on this forum. Also, a little of VTubers - however, they don’t feel like conversational Japanese.
  • Found that AnkiDroid can record audio as well (but not as far as Speech-to-text). Also found Speechling - might be a nice way to restart doing flashcards and learning from phrasebooks.
    • Nonetheless, I didn’t do much Anki lately.
  • Found that YouTube with timestamp can be embedded in Anki (and AnkiDroid). Nonetheless, HTML should be edited too. (style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16/9" and remove width=, height=)
  • I found jpdb.io Discord server, and chatted a little there.

Grammar

  • Sentence breakdown makes me more aware of sentence structures.
    • I have always known that early levels’ context sentences are weird, like de-Kanji’d in odd places; but never took them seriously.
    • After the breakdown, I would deduce the grammar points, and look up on explantion, anyway. However, I also see an importance of running through the essentials sequentially, without skipping. though, I haven’t started the latter one, yet
    • Apparently, there are 78 vocabularies in Level 2, therefore around 200 sentences. It will probably takes 4 weeks / 1 month.
  • A man in Takagi Vol.1 club is quite actively learning, and I learnt a lot from him, and some others’ answers to him. Personally, I have watched Takagi EP.1, but not really read Vol.1
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