7月21日（木)
Posting here can be a great way to learn new stuff as well, like I didn’t know how to write dates, so I looked it up and I’ll use it from now on 
Reading wise I continued with the Level 0 graded reader free PDF; I read three additional chapters:
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赤ずきん - pretty straight forward, even though I wasn’t sure about the last page (I’ll look it up, when I’m on my PC). But I felt quite happy with 大きい目 and 大きい口, which I recognized from WaniKani (and therefore could also deduce 大きい耳 as well as 食べました, where I didn’t know the Kanji but the word (from the Michel Thomas audio course).
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よむ - here I wasn’t sure at first, but soon got it. I knew よみます from Michel Thomas but didn’t drew the connection first, and I am not sure about every word; but again I could pull from my knowledge (like ひとり and ふたり, which I wouldn’t have recognized without context because of the non-Kanji writing
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たいへん - this one was the hardest yet. Still, I get the gist of it. I found it a bit weird that they removed the furigana for してんしゃ. Made it harder to read. And I don’t get all the text, so this would need the most dictionary work. But I get the gist and that’s rather fascinating.
All I all this reading experience is surprisingly pleasant. It’s really fun to understanding these sentences or the gist of the story. I would have never considered myself to be even close to “reading” something, but now I do. Great experience that I can only recommend anyone that is starting off. You don’t need to be some JLPT level before you can start and it’s so rewarding.
I am now at page 50. Lots to go, but it’s fast to read and I even reread the last story as well.