📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀

Oh my goodness! I’m glad they’re OK but that would be so terrifying!

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I’m so sorry! This sounds terrifying. I’m glad everything turned out okay, but I totally understand your reaction.

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:sunflower: DAYS 9 - 18 :sunflower:

I finished chapter 13 and half of 14 of 海辺のカフカ - Kafka on the Shore :beach_umbrella: (Advanced Book Club)

I’m reading everyday, just very very slowly since I’m spending so much time with friends and family. I’m behind on the bookclub again… unfortunately. Hoping to catch up later this week when i take a 3 hour train and again even later during my long flight back “home”!

@omk3 I’m so sorry that happened, but I’m really glad to hear they’re okay :heart:

@NicoleIsEnough Better to update later than never! I hope you also enjoy catching up on Kafka :blush:

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This is the most important time! You know, the books are so old already, they don’t mind being read a week earlier or later. But when you left, you cannot hang out with them any more. Enjoy the time!

Absolutely! :smile: Please make sure to let us know about your crazy chapter 14 theories as well in the book club thread :laughing:

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:sunny: :beach_umbrella: Memoria’s Summer Readin’ :beach: :sunny:

Day 18:

Another day, another 30 pages of ハピネス. I wonder when I’ll stop being tired. hopefully soon :upside_down_face:

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July 18th!

I read Chapter 2 of Orange today. I’m really enjoying it so far. Its a bit of a tough read for me, partly just general difficulty-wise but also because the chapters are quite long - so I’m hoping I can keep up with the reading club!

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@omk3 Glad to hear it all turned out ok. That must have been awful for you though :frowning:

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Like always I was lazy or rather spend too much time playing video games in japanese :joy: Somehow I still managed to read two pages in the Kanzen Master N2 Reading book. Maybe tomorrow I will read more.

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I’m working through N3 vocab and N3 Bunpro, and have reached level 60 on WK. But there are still words and constructs in the lists you’re posting that I’ve never seen! On the other hand, I find it quite satisfying when I learn a grammar point on Bunpro, then see it a few days later in a book.

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Summary Post

July 18th
What did I read?: 猫には猫の猫ごはん Vol 1
How much did I read?: 15 pages
How long did it take me?: 22 min

They went to the cat cafe and as expected, it was adorable :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Taiyou made a friend right away xD

Honestly same whenever a cat chooses to sit on me xD
Here’s a soft happy kitty to brighten your day <3

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:green_heart: Home :green_heart:

ジョジョの奇妙な冒険20

135 - 144

The conversation between N’Doul dealing himself a fatal blow and actually dying was too difficult for me for the most part, but I understood Jotaro’s commentary after N’Doul passed. I’m glad I’ve seen this scene in the anime probably 3-5 times.

I was going to read more but then I got distracted by a news article emailed to me. :sweat_smile:

Next up is Oingo Boingo!

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More Monkeys reading from me. As the MC is still assimilating himself into the girl’s school, one of the things all the first years/new students have to do is pass a walking exam. Since it is a very prestigious お嬢様 school, the way you present yourself is extremely important. When the MC first came to the school, people gave him the nickname ガニ股クイーン because of the way he walked :joy:
That section had a lot of talk about proper etiquette and ways of walking/sitting. Some of it took longer than normal to read but it was still very fun. The MC took the exam and got hit with a 「お上手ですこと」at the end so it wasn’t looking good.

But then we later find out that he actually passed the exam and she was being honest with her words. Seems like it was something she picked up on while she was visiting the boys school (雑木林 is the boy’s school’s name).

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REDC
Week 4

July 18
Monster Hunter World


Just a totally healthy amount of hours :eyes: totally. Surprisingly I’m able to mine a bit of vocabulary from this game. I thought it was going to be more of a burden but not really so far. I can’t for the life of me learn the names of different animal species, herbs, insects and so on. That’s something I struggle to an extent even in English and I’ve been learning it since forever at this point (though to be fair not actively like I do Japanese, should probably resume that at some point). I guess getting used to the names of so many animals in your native language makes it very hard to associate a whole new set of names for them in another language, and that’s been complete madness in Japanese in my own experience; almost everything seems like a set of sounds I’ll forget in a second. But yeah, I can’t be bothered with these ones since they’re fictional. I’ll learn some actual animal names, other than the usual ones, eventually.

I’m noticing that I understand more and more the J-J dict definitions; definitely an exciting prospect. I’m still carrying on with my plan of only adding J-J anki cards that I fully comprehend. I don’t add many, so far there’s only 75, but I catch myself adding more and more over time when I do, especially lately. I’m looking forward to mining from Loopers, I have everything completely set up already for maximum convenience. Not relying fully on SRS has done wonders for my burnout back then, and now I actually want to use it more and more again, but without the pressure of “having to add things no matter what” that was holding me back. A break and a change of strategy has been essential.

I think I’ve spent my whole free time today consuming Japanese, that’s a first :open_mouth: . Definitely rare for me so far.

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Isn’t it the best? It’s like: oh, I know this one! Good job, me!

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Home post :bookmark: July 18th :beach_umbrella:

・ わたしの幸せな結婚 2 (25% → 93%)

Nyooming is going well. I’ve been neglecting book club book, so will read that tomorrow.


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Hehe, thanks! I think the coin back campaign on bookwalker closes on the 20th, so that might be a good chance to pick it up if you’re interested ^^

Nafutarin~ :durtle_hello: This statement alone encouraged me to buy the rest of the volumes while there’s still campaign going on xD (except for the newest one, will when I get there eventually :eyes: )

Hehe, spoken like a true pocketcat :durtle_cat:

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That is one heck of a nyoom indeed :rofl:

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Over the past ~2 years I’ve amassed about 20 or so Japanese books ( :purple_heart: Book Off ) with varying difficultly in hopes to help me learn the language and move onto the big people books. I’ve made WK a habit since April and have picked up enough speed this month to not be overwhelmed with adding more things onto my plate.

It’s my first challenge and I actually completed a book in 5 days! Granted I only had to read 47 pages to finish it but I’m still kinda shocked that I’ve been following through with the challenge. It’s a kids book (most of what I’ve hoarded ranges in age from 4-10) so there was no kanji and it was basic grammar. Only a few random N2/N1 words and unfamiliar grammar, so overall I’d say it was a good intro to reading in Japanese. It was a book I picked up the last time I was in Japan in 2019 at a used bookstore in Kanazawa so I’m actually going to miss reading it a little bit but… onto the next!

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Got a pic or titles? Curious if you’ve got any other users have read. :smiley:

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I went through them all and it turns out I have a total of 24 books :sweat_smile:
In total I’ve now read a whopping TWO :melting_face: so I got some work to do

So in no particular order, here’s what I got:

きいろいばけつ
ちびどらごんのおくりもの
ピーターパン
イップとヤネケ
ルルとララのスイートポテト
オバケちゃん 松谷みよ子作 いとうひろし糸会
夢の彼方への旅
八月がくるたびに
パンやのくまちゃん
虫は小さな天使たち
打ち上げ花火、下からみるか?横から見るか?
サン=テグジュぺり 星の言葉
ももいろのきりん
ぐるんぱのようちえん
トガリ山のぼうけん Vol 1 風の草原
トガリ山のぼうけん Vol 2 ゆうだちの森
よつばと! Vol 1-3
フルーツバスケット 高屋奈月 Collector’s Edition Vol 1-3
とんがり帽子のアトリエ Vol 1-2

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フルーツバスケット I’ve read and よつばと! is crazy popular (never read it myself though) but the rest I don’t know…except ピーターパン I suppose :sweat_smile: Quite the stash though :smiley:

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July 18 :blossom: Home Post

Today was a バディミッションBOND day :tada: I didn’t play a whole lot, just some side stories but they were a lot of fun! I always love seeing their antics :joy: I’d love to play more but alas I’m sleepy so that’s for tomorrow haha

buddy bond things

Hot springs episode!! There’s a whole set of side stories centered around them going on a little hot springs trip and it’s great :') So have some antics:

怪盗(かいとう)ビースト plushie omg :face_holding_back_tears: I need like five immediately :laughing:

Some ladies (and モクマ) were thirsting over アーロン in the sauna and really who could blame them:

And then アーロン and チェズレイ had a super intense ping pong battle and well…

アーロン is terrifying :joy:

On an angstier note, モクマ is having a generally rough time. He’s been in his head ever since they decided to go to his hometown and just… it’s clear there’s a lot of heavy emotion there. Still don’t know exactly what happened 20 or so years ago, but I’ll probably find out soon! :sweat_smile: チェズレイ and モクマ interactions were pretty much as always:

They had kind of a sweet interaction too (at least on モクマ’s side lmao, チェズレイ is relentlessly チェズレイ); they were by an 足湯(あしゆ) and チェズレイ was adamantly against doing it because of his high standards of cleanliness and general distaste for public use things, so モクマ went and got him hot springs water directly from the source :') he just put it in a normal bucket though so チェズレイ still refused to touch it but it was a thoughtful gesture regardless!

Oh geez that’s so stressful, I’m glad everything’s okay!

Ahhh congrats, that’s a great accomplishment!! :tada:

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