The Tanuki Beach Resort: Date 20220715 
No Longer Tanuki Progress: 100% - Complete!
Finished No Longer Human, which means Iβve also finished my first book in Japanese!
Japanese found in the sand
Learnthings
ηΆ΄γγγ€γ₯γγγΌ To spell; to write/compose
ζη΄γγ¦γγγγγΌ Tiqin (Chinese instrument)
Replies and Ramblings
Thank you all!! And for the encouragement in the beginning! I think it was the first of June I started, pretty sure it was, I donβt remember now 
Ramblings
But thatβs 45 days, and I read for about an hour, give or take, each time, so thatβs about 1,670 characters an hour (thatβs including kanji, kana, and punctuation)β¦ I have no idea what that means though, I donβt really have much else to put that up against. I think it sounds like a lot more than I probably read, there was so many commas everywhere that they probably make up half that number and the word θͺε made up another quarter 
But Iβm surprised the Japanese wasnβt super unintelligible for being an older book. As in, I found it difficult and I think a lot of the grammar went over my head and I probably missed some of the finegrain nuances. But I was expecting the Japanese equivalent of reading something from the same time period in English, like James Joyce or Virginia Woolf (hard to get the meaning in a huge maze of words), but most of it was pretty clear and easy enough to pick out the main parts of each sentence - like which verbs are affecting which nouns and such - just again, some of the in between grammar left me confused.
ι εΌ΅γ£γ¦οΌοΌ Itβs never too late to read about manure!