📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 🏖🏖

[Aislin]

@rikaiwisdom

I’ve started Secret, which is a long one (98 episodes) and it’s labeled as one of the harder ones. So far, so good.

Ooo, I liked Secret. But there is a long flashback in the middle which was a drag. Story pace suddenly halted due to it Unpacking the mystery was fun, though!

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Day 20
July 15

• 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (4% → 9%)
• ルーンファクトリー5 (年1 冬11-12)

Day 21
July 16

• ルーンファクトリー5 (年1 冬13-14)

Day 22
July 17

• 不可解なぼくのすべてを4 (chapter 19)
• ルーンファクトリー5 (年1 冬15 - finished the main plot! will continue some more, but after a break)

Day 23
July 18

• 不可解なぼくのすべてを4 (chapter 20)
• 乙女ゲームの破滅フラグしかない悪役令嬢に転生してしまった…5 (9% → 13%)

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Life’s been… weird. I cannot think of the right adjective so weird will have to do.
But I didn’t stop reading. I’m also motivated by the thought of everyone else struggling along.
Also I think I missed one day not in reality but in recording the same day twice using the same number. * goes to check *

EDIT: Found the culprit! I marked both 4th and 5th of July as Day 9. So the JLPT tiredness was to blame
So unexpectedly I got one more new shiny day on my record

[Belerith]

18.7.
Yesterday I read… volumes 3 and 4 of からかい上手の高木さん. Since the rest aren’t free to read, that’ll be where I stop with the series. It was fine, lighthearted fun, but not terribly interesting to me. I did like the way the characters’ expressions are drawn, though.

[maykeye]

16 pages of Forbidden Scrollery (2) complete and so is another chapter.

[vonnutje]

Today I switched the language on my switch to Japanese and played some animal crossing! Why did nobody tell me that this game has furigana This game is surprisingly easy to follow with some basic knowledge on the game and with lvl 10 WK and basic grammar knowledge this game is a joy to play in Japanese I really recommend it to people that wanted to play animal crossing or have animal crossing already, just switch your switch language to Japanese and you’re good to go

[chrisosaurus]

I have been doing the same with Super Mario Odyssey, I considered purchasing Animal Crossing to play in Japanese but I was worried there’d be too much puns or wordplay.

Super Mario has been great due to the abundance of basic action verbs (running, jumping, throwing, etc.), I was naively hoping Animal Crossing would be similar but for more day-to-day things - how are you finding the vocabulary?

[Redglare]

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July 19 Wasn’t particularly busy, but didn’t get myself to read until late evening? If not for this challenge I’d probably not read anything today

・Read 冷たい密室と博士たち, ch. 6, part 2. (38% → 40%)

[sycamore]

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Yesterday and today I just continued to read NO. 6. I’m a little ways into the 2nd chapter now and things are already getting interesting! These two days reading have felt a little bit more challenging than the first few days reading this. Both days I ended up reading up on new grammar/sentence patterns that I hadn’t come across before, and yesterday I had to read through the end of the first chapter twice because the first time round I was somewhat confused as to why some things were happening. One nice thing though is that I went into that reread expecting to have to painstakingly breakdown sentences to figure out what I’d missed and then just kind of found that the second time through I understood a lot more without a need for that. It’s nice when your brain works stuff out for you!

[Nishi790]

I need to stop bingeing this manga. Just got a bunch of flashback/backstory episodes from the male lead, along with some minorly dramatic realizations in their relationship that led to me reading 2.5 chapters last night (and staying up rather later than usual), then going ahead and finishing the volume (another 2.5 chapters) this morning. Still wanted to know what was next, and spend my afternoon reading another 4.5 chapters. At ~6 chapters/volume, and ~30 pages/chapter… well, volume 11 is about 3/4 done and I did a lot of reading today.

Definitely had harder to understand stuff today - looking up more words and grammar points than usual - flashbacks had a lot more narration type writing, which is decidedly trickier for me. It didn’t help that I was invested in the story, so found myself looking more things up to make sure I was getting the details right, where I might have skimmed a bit more on less plot-heavy chapters. I think I need to read some more narration type writing (so, you know, books, instead of manga) to practice this more…

[vonnutje]

@chrisosaurus

I have been doing the same with Super Mario Odyssey, I considered purchasing Animal Crossing to play in Japanese but I was worried there’d be too much puns or wordplay.

Only if you catch a bug/fish, so I’m not trying to actively translate those sentences. The rest of the game is very doable luckily

[vonnutje]

@chrisosaurus

Super Mario has been great due to the abundance of basic action verbs (running, jumping, throwing, etc.), I was naively hoping Animal Crossing would be similar but for more day-to-day things - how are you finding the vocabulary?

The vocab is standard, not a lot of kanji in the dialogues and that throws me of a little sometimes, but for the most part it is random chitchat with some more difficult words at the owl, but those are words that you will frequently see when you talk to him (words like donation).

[chrisosaurus]

@vonnutje

Only if you catch a bug/fish, so I’m not trying to actively translate those sentences. The rest of the game is very doable luckily

Ohh that’s really helpful to know, in that case I might bump it up my list of things to play =D
I think I’ve only played Animal Crossing back on the DS so my memory of the dialogue isn’t great (beyond remembering being scammed by Nook, naturally).

@vonnutje

The vocab is standard, not a lot of kanji in the dialogues and that throws me of a little sometimes

What’s kind of funny to me is that before WK I would have considered a kana only game to be a blessing, whereas now it is something of a curse, I guess that means WK is working?

@vonnutje

but for the most part it is random chitchat

\o/ random chit chat \o/
Awesome, one of the things that Mario lacks is normal dialogue, characters conversing are usually talking about an objective, or giving the minimal story elements, so having a game where there is more ‘chatter’ sounds really helpful for reinforcing that every day vocab.

and since I’m here, quick update time.
Home post - July 19th からかい上手の高木さん chapter 7 - pages 9 and 10.

[rikaiwisdom]

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Day 49
Satori Reader: Secret, Episode 3.

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@momoni

I’ve tried to avoid any spoilers until I finally have the time to sit down and properly play it myself. Tried playing it this spring with the Japanese audio and English subtitles for listening practice and I regret everything - it’s just so ridiculously high-paced that there was in fact no time to read the subtitles.

I see I guess that’s part of the problem that I have with FFXIV too. You can read at your own pace when there are dialogues between quests, duties and such, but when you’re doing something, the text flies away crazy fast and there’s no way I’m catching anything of the battle dialogues or pointers. One of the biggest reasons I don’t play it in Japanese is actually because I don’t want to kill my party because I don’t know how to read something most enemy spells have a fairly quick cast, and I simply can’t read katakana or kanji at that speed. Not to say that if I need to explain something to somebody or them to me, how are we going to communicate? “Avoid so and so when they cast X” … “when they cast what :’)” . So I end up putting it in Japanese, playing around for a bit solo, then back again to English after a short while because I’m extremely overwhelmed.

@chrisosaurus

What’s kind of funny to me is that before WK I would have considered a kana only game to be a blessing, whereas now it is something of a curse, I guess that means WK is working?

Same I can’t read full hiragana now, gimme that kanji.

[windupbird]

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Day 49: July 19th
What did I read?: しまなみ誰そ彼 Vol. 1
How much did I read?: 38 pages (1 chapter)
How long did it take me?: 1 hour 16 min

Quick/boring update today, since reading this took way longer than I thought it would Still very good though

[deejayyp]

1Q84 Book 2: 38 Pages, 1hr 35minutes.
Read about twenty pages, was close to the end so decided “Ah screw it, just read it til the end” and finished it off.
Man, this book series is so damn interesting. I went ahead and bought the rest of the series after I finished it so I have the rest of em to look forward to.

[Burnannator]

Reading the Novel version of Coco is going along noicely.

[chrisosaurus]

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July 20th. Wow what a day!

TL;DR からかい上手の高木さん 9 difficult pages (and a few trivial / picture-only pages), this is a lot at least for me.

Longer version of my abnormal day

The longer version is that I didn’t get to sleep until 2am and then at 5am a nasty tooth ache woke me. I took the day off work to see a dentist, thankfully it looks to have just been my gum (?!?) and there is nothing wrong with the tooth, but after all that and only a few hours sleep I wasn’t feeling up to work even after the pain subsided.

I decided to instead spend what was left of the afternoon on the balcony reading and trying to relax a little so that today didn’t feel like a complete write off.

Reading からかい上手の高木さん, today all up I read the final 6 pages to finish chapter 7, and started chapter 8 )reading pages 2, 3, and 4). I then wrote out the next 5 pages to make tomorrow smoother.

I timed myself for part of it. Reading the last 6 pages of chapter 7 took me 1 hour and 40 minutes. This included writing out and breaking down every line by hand in a notebook. I didn’t time the rest, but I’d guess in the realm of 2.5 - 3 hours total today, although a lot of that was me being inefficient.

This means I’ve met my stretch-ish goal of finishing chapter 7 before the volume 2 offshoot club starts. Although now I’m a few days early… so I’m going to see how much of the remaining chapters I can squeeze in, or at least write down.

EDIT: I finished chapter 7 in 4 days =O

[Belerith]

19.7.
Yesterday I read 13 pages of 使ってはいけない日本語, finishing chapter 3.
I also read the remaining pages of chapter 6 and chapter 7 of 1Q84. Commencing catching up!
Then I read the free manga recommended in the extensive reading thread, ルックバック. I really, really liked it. Not gonna lie, I cried. Really good.
And then I read SとN, which is an actually very cute BL manga. Much appreciated after the roller coaster that was ルックバック.

What can I say, it was a slow day at work. Today’s log is going to be much shorter. Or at least contain less books.

[maykeye]

Extremely tired today, taking a nap didn’t help and feel only worse, as result read only 6 pages of Forbidden Scrollery(2). Well, actually it was 2 pages and 4 pages with no text to be honest, but whateves, I managed not to break the streak. I might lost the count for the streak, but I didn’t break it.

[Natsuha]

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Today I finished the first volume of the 聲の形 manga. What should I read tomorrow? Maybe that pervy manga. Shouko is so cute I would totally hug her. I’m sorry but cute things are my weakness. All this bullying made me really sad. Why can’t people be nice to each other?

[Belerith]

20.7.
I think I’m done reading for today, so I’ll do today’s log on the day!
Today I read a bunch of manga! Volumes 3&4 of 異世界妹 (the 電子版, which are only around 80-90 pages each), and chapters 1&2 of volume 1 of かしましめし, which is about food, and enjoying life or making life bearable by enjoying food. It’s actually nice so far. The art is kind of… Flowy? Stylish? I like it.
I also read a chapter of 1Q84. 3 more chapters until I’m caught up again.