Summary post
I thought I’d make a check-in post now that we’re a week in, since I haven’t had the time for daily updates. So far, I have successfully managed to read something in both Japanese and Spanish every day, so the challenge is going very well! 
As far as my Japanese reading goes, I somehow managed to finish translating two Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling shows before their big April 9 Korakuen Hall show! It was a lot of work, but I’m proud of myself for managing to push through. I talked about those two shows here and here.
Highlights this time include me having to spend a lot of time on the Kamen Rider wiki in order to figure out a couple elaborate analogies (because most wrestlers are nerds), and then struggling to decipher a few names of certain characters from a few very well-known media properties that TJPW had decided to censor in their official transcripts.
Yuka Sakazaki said that after she defends her title, first she wants to fight ミ●キー at ディ●●ーランド, and then next she wants to fight キテ●ちゃん at サ●●オピュー●ランド. I figured out the first, but needed help from a friend for the second, haha!
I got no reading done on 大海原と大海原 volume 3 because the TJPW translations were more pressing, but now that I’m caught up (until they upload the transcript from today’s show…
), I’m hoping I’ll be able to stay more ahead of things, and have more time for side projects like catching up on the book club manga.
As far as reading in Spanish goes…
I’m about 80 pages (out of a little over 400) into Wonder, and reading it has seriously been one of the coolest language learning experiences I’ve ever had. Finally I can see what 98% comprehension feels like! I’m able to guess the meaning of almost every unknown word I come across. It feels pretty much what reading felt like when I was just getting started reading chapter books in elementary school, haha, and I kept checking out library books that were just above my level and struggling through them anyway.
I think I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who has an upper beginner/lower intermediate Spanish level, and who is looking for something easy but engaging to read. You could literally read this with just Duolingo Spanish if you get decently far along in their course.
It has honestly given me a lot more confidence with language learning, because I truthfully never envisioned that I would ever reach a point where I could easily read a book in a language other than English. It’s extraordinarily cool seeing it happen with Spanish, and it gives me hope that I’ll get here someday with Japanese, too! 