I think it’s probably just one sentence (just because it makes a lot more sense that way, at least the way I understand it, especially in context)
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Day 1
Read aloud from 上級レベルのとびら textbook, Chapter 9!
Day 2
Read ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂、chapter 6.
Things I learned in reading:
百年早い = Implies, “Dont get ahead of yourself.” Often used by superiors trying to put subordinates in their place.
血の気が引く = to go pale (from fear or shock).
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That sounds interesting. Too bad my vacation starts in a month and lasts two weeks, so for now I’ll yukkuri shiteitte ne for now. Speaking of yukkuri, I’ll probably go for another minecraft LP, which will help with reading stylized fonts as well.
As I’m on work, I didn’t watch beyond intro yet, but so far the episode was easy to understand, production quality was there(and my listening Japanese is garbage, so it’s clearly will be more reading than listening).
Step 0: choose the material
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Great free Japanese digital library: Aozora Bunko 青空文庫 : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Oh, I understand, thank you! 
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It seems to be fun so I will join the challenge. I only managed to read a text in the reading part of the second genki book and some lines in the game ソウルサクリファイス デルタ.
Finished
Manga
アポカリプスの砦 vol.1
あさこ vol. 1
ふらいんぐうぃっち vol. 1
聲の形 vol. 1
マジャン ～畏村奇聞 vol. 1
レンタルおにいちゃん vol. 1
それでも歩は寄せてくる vol.1
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I read 50 pages of 天冥の標2 yesterday and another 50 today.
It feels pretty slow compared to my usual pace, but I was busy yesterday, thought I would catch up today but ended up bumping against a chapter that completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief.
A computer program encoding a super AI was encoded into DNA and inserted into the genome of sheep thousands of year ago, so that, once sequenced and open by accident by the wrong program on a modern day computer it would stealthily take control of said computer before spreading itself through Internet? Like… how does that even work. What program would execute a series of ATCGs? … time to go to bed I guess.
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Well, it’s like how in many Sci-Fi movies all computers are always compatible, regardless of which planet they come from 
When I come to something that’s very hard to imagine ever happening in reality, I just keep reading further. Because no matter how improbable / impossible X is, you can always say “Yes, X is most likely false, but let’s just assume it’s true and keep moving forward”
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Ahh, I wanna participate but I probably won’t succeed sad face
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But if it has no coherence, it loses meaning… I’m not even sure why that chapter was a thing. Anyway, next time I’ll try to open a fasta file (format for biological sequences) in Gimp and see if my computer is suddenly into world domination.
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Give it a try! You can set a small goal like reading one NHK Easy News article or something else you’re interested in that doesn’t take much energy. Even if in the end you are ultimately unable to do 100% of the days, any percentage is still a win over a 0% 
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Ooh, how is it? I have it but haven’t started reading it yet. I imagine there’s a lot of metaphors and vagueness in there… Is it difficult?
June 1st: I read this week’s parts of a few bookclubs yesterday, so ~15 pages of 殺人出産 and a chapter of 1Q84, as well as a chapter of a manga, あせとせっけん vol. 10.
I haven’t read anything yet today.
thoughts on goals
I’ve been thinking of what I want to make my goal for the next 2 months though, since I pretty much read every day anyway. Maybe to read something not bookclub related each day, even if it’s just a few pages. Or I could find myself a project, like a certain book I want to read.
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Read a bit on the third part of the Ask Graded reader. Probably won’t have time to go finish that part today, but this one was conveniently divided into “chapters” (when chapters are 2-3 pages each it feels kinda silly to call it a chapter). I’ll finish that one tomorrow.
I’m actually using this challenge to finish of some books I’ve started but not finished so that seems like win-win.
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I do read at least one page of manga every day! But my definition of every day excludes Saturdays and Sundays. I’m always on the lookout for good manga that fills one of the three following criteria: it must not have an anime and little chance to get one; the anime must be incomplete with no chance of ever being properly finished; the anime must suck for reasons unrelated to the manga. Any recs you can give me will be much appreciated.
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Jumping back into Japanese after 3 year break!
I finally figured out how to set up my kindle with my Japanese Amazon account.
Spoiler: you only need a different password. I use kindle on my mac and iPhone. Anyway, I saw Flying Witch ふらいんぐうぃっち on another thread for upper beginner and am really enjoying it. I only have to look up a word on every other page (passed N3 back when I lived in Japan). It’s a great series for beginner and lower intermediate. I just bought all the volumes out there and will be reading it for the challenge!
Side note: as much as I love shonen jump, etc… there is too much explanatory dialogue and not enough normal conversation, so I usually give up after a bit. Might jump into Full Metal or My Hero when I’m at a higher level in WaniKani.
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@Catherine670 ahhh, i don’t have discord…my parents aren’t ready for me to have that ig. but i was thinking earlier about creating a small book club with the POLL fam, so maybe we could make one and ask who wants to join?
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just read the other stuff you said, and i’m okay with that too, whatever you wanna do
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I played ルーンファクトリー5 for about 2 hours! I definitely can not read everything or understand everything but I can sometimes get a general idea of what is going on based on context and what I do know.
I have a question though
I noticed that some words will be in Kanji for certain characters and then not for others. Like 私 (Some characters will have わたし) However, I also noticed that they wont just be in hiragana but katakana! I will see 君 as キミ. IS this just a stylistic choice or is it quite common in games and manga and stuff? Im not home rn but I can provide screenshots later.
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I don’t have tons of experience, but what I’ve noticed so far:
Sometimes words are written in katakana for emphasis.
Kanji use seems to vary - so far to me it seems stylistic - I often notice kids’ dialogue has fewer kanji, for example. Some writers also like to use kanji for words that are ‘usually written as kana’ for some reason.
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Yeah, writing in katakana is often used the same way as writing in italics is used in English.
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