# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄ **URL:** \ **Category:** Reading\ **Created:** [December 28, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948 "2021-12-28T08:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 40
**Author:** ![liveunderwater](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/liveunderwater/32/618749_2.png) [@liveunderwater](https://community.wanikani.com/u/liveunderwater)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/784 "2022-01-21T01:47:20Z")
oh, Qitta, yeah I remember stumbling upon that. I hadn’t begun reading seriously at the time, hadn’t even changed my locale to ja yet. Looks like something I could get into now. I know I also dismissed it because I was looking for and didn’t find much c/c++ conversation but I’ve been playing with Python lately. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again! ---
**Author:** ![pocketcat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/pocketcat/32/422463_2.png) [@pocketcat](https://community.wanikani.com/u/pocketcat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:05am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/785 "2022-01-21T02:05:43Z")
> [@liveunderwater](#): > > I was looking for and didn’t find much c/c++ conversation but I’ve been playing with Python lately. I’m actually over in infra land so not really in-the-know about the C/C++ world, but I did find this from a casual google: [C++ コミュニティ - C++ の歩き方 | cppmap](https://cppmap.github.io/learn/communities/) - the Slack and the subreddit seem to be English but the rest are Japanese communities so far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Daisoujou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/daisoujou/32/818333_2.png) [@Daisoujou](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Daisoujou)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/786 "2022-01-21T02:17:27Z")
@sycamore I don’t have much to add, but I just want to say I adore the updates and screenshots. Loved reading it, and it’s great how much you’re enjoying it. [Summary post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/302) Feedback was much appreciated from everyone (since you didn’t get a direct response, thanks for addding your thoughts @fustian_garb). You all helped me settle my thoughts and get a little more excited about something new rather than just frustrated at dropping something. ![Summer Pockets](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/8/f/28f42f7ebbbda4059b2b9b46f881a63ee441f85e.jpeg) I know visual novels are a bit niche, so the quick sell here is this is a VN made by Key, who are most famous for Little Busters and Clannad (probably the anime based on them, more so). Their games tend to fall into a category of VNs known as 泣きゲー, or “crying games.” So I’ll let you all know when the crying comes. Still, if this is anything like a usual Key game, I’m in for dozens of hours of slice of life chilling before the crying starts. It’s the bittersweet sort of tragedy that hits you late, not full on misery. Anyway, I’m doing it! In some ways frustration at the Reflection Blue edition possible never releasing in English was one of the things that pushed me into “fine, I’ll finally go learn this language,” so as underprepared and relying on help as I am, it’s wild to be already doing this. Big goal accomplished, assuming this works out. It wasn’t without its technical issues… I had loads of them, from getting a a game that demands every single thing about your computer be Japanese to run, to having a hard time with the texthooker on this particular game, but I’ve got it settled for now. Or at least mostly. The texthooker freaks out on occasion but overall it’s workable. It’s also readable, so far! Sentences are dense with words I don’t know, and it’s obvious how different narration is after 80+ hours of a game that’s practically all dialog, but I played for about an hour, mined a solid set of words, and felt like with some lookups, I could tell what was up. Today I just arrived on a boat and started walking through the island; at my slow pace I haven’t really encountered characters yet. Still, the vibes are just what I was dreaming of. Lovely descriptive writing of the environment, beautiful backgrounds, and already some surprisingly moving music. I’m hooked and nothing has happened. Oh yeah, cool new words? I’ll go with ボストンバッグ, only because this is an instance of Japanese teaching me English. I didn’t even know “Boston bag” was a term. ---
**Author:** ![liveunderwater](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/liveunderwater/32/618749_2.png) [@liveunderwater](https://community.wanikani.com/u/liveunderwater)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/787 "2022-01-21T02:22:06Z")
Very nice resource(s), again thank you! That’s a bag full of goodies to start pulling from. ---
**Author:** ![pocketcat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/pocketcat/32/422463_2.png) [@pocketcat](https://community.wanikani.com/u/pocketcat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/788 "2022-01-21T02:24:16Z")
> [@Daisoujou](#): > > I didn’t even know “Boston bag” was a term. This comes up so often in murder stories it’s practically a trope. 😂 Conveniently large yet unsuspicious bags. > [@Daisoujou](#): > > So I’ll let you all know when the crying comes. 😂 泣き虫ですか？…私も > [@liveunderwater](#): > > Very nice resource(s), again thank you! Always happy to help where I can 😃 ---
**Author:** ![liveunderwater](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/liveunderwater/32/618749_2.png) [@liveunderwater](https://community.wanikani.com/u/liveunderwater)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/789 "2022-01-21T02:31:00Z")
> [@pocketcat](#): > > 😂 泣き虫ですか？…私も 同じ 泣き虫 is a big time favorite of mine. Last year my in-laws dog was whining in my face so I called her 泣き虫. I didn’t even have to explain what it meant. They immediately started calling her 泣き虫 whenever she whines. ---
**Author:** ![windupbird](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/windupbird/32/220114_2.png) [@windupbird](https://community.wanikani.com/u/windupbird)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/790 "2022-01-21T02:31:51Z")
[Summary post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/67) **Day 20: January 20th** **365日にっぽんのいろ図鑑** Time spent: 22 min Today’s color: [薄鈍色](https://twitter.com/543life/status/1351869586770165760/photo/1) (うすにびいろ) - a light bluish grey I like this color a lot. …It was a color of mourning in the Heian period so I’m not exactly sure what that says about me 😅 But it feels like a very calm, introspective color. A nice sentence from today: 独特の静けさは、人を悼むのみならず、自分の心と向き合うこととも親しいでしょう。 > **Some good words** > > - 僧服 (そうふく) - priest’s garb > - 僧侶 (そうりょ) - priest, monk > - 静けさ (しずけさ) - stillness; silence; quiet; hush; calm; serenity > - 悼む (いたむ) - to grieve over; to mourn; to lament > - のみならず - a grammary thing meaning [not only; besides; as well as](https://jlptsensei.com/learn-japanese-grammar/%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BF%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%81%9A-nominarazu-meaning/) **まいにち暦生活 日本の暮らしを楽しむ365のコツ** Time spent: 9 min Today is 大寒, the coldest day of the year 🥶 Seems about right It’s also the first day of 款冬華 (ふきのはなさく), another one of the 72 microseasons - this is when the フキノトウ (edible flower buds of the fuki (Petasites japonicus) plant) start to sprout from beneath the snow. **What else did I read?** [お前、タヌキにならねーか?](https://bookmeter.com/books/17601135) Vol 1 Amount read: 8 pages Time spent: 22 min _ahem_ 🦝 So, I’ve only read the first chapter so far, is that a bit premature to dub this the best manga ever I really love it already xD This is kind of a dream scenario for me, tbh - like, you don’t want to live as a human anymore, do you want to come be a tanuki instead? _Heck yes I do_, take me away to frolic in the mountains of Japan, cute tanuki man ❤ ✨ I am kind of upset that this is not a real-life option > **Perhaps one of the best perks of tanuki life** > > ![2022-01-20 19.33.56](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/a/d/6ad1d7afd2e1328dafe5d057d6cb5ce255535224.jpeg) > > ![2022-01-20 19.33.36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/7/0/6/706db4371fc13aa74a2bf48418bb24d3b8df092d.jpeg) > > Like…I’m _supposed_ to get fat? Sign me up, man. Sign me the heck _up!_ > [@sycamore](#): > > you become a little friendship group and get to go on outings together instead of dates and omg it’s just the cutest thing ever. This is really cute and I love this ❤ Please share screenshots of pink haired fashion model guy if/when you meet him, I am intrigued ---
**Author:** ![Daisoujou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/daisoujou/32/818333_2.png) [@Daisoujou](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Daisoujou)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/791 "2022-01-21T02:44:09Z")
> [@pocketcat](#): > > This comes up so often in murder stories it’s practically a trope. 😂 Conveniently large yet unsuspicious bags. Oh! You know, yeah, I think I know what you mean conceptually but I haven’t actually read those enough to see the exact term used. My knowledge (besides cultural osmosis) would be more from films and the like. > [@pocketcat](#): > > 😂 泣き虫ですか？…私も ううん…実はあまりない It’s actually really rare for stuff to make me outright cry, almost to the bad opposite extreme, so my tears might be a little figurative, but I welcome the game to try. (I literally don’t output ever yet so I don’t feel confident that even those couple words aren’t unnatural haha) ---
**Author:** ![pocketcat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/pocketcat/32/422463_2.png) [@pocketcat](https://community.wanikani.com/u/pocketcat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/792 "2022-01-21T02:51:36Z")
> [@Daisoujou](#): > > (I literally don’t output ever yet so I don’t feel confident that even those couple words aren’t unnatural haha) We’re all learners here. 🙂 I’m rarely confident in my output sounding totally natural but I just try to roll with it in the hopes it will get better with time and practice. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![natarin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/natarin/32/563176_2.png) [@natarin](https://community.wanikani.com/u/natarin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/793 "2022-01-21T04:11:16Z")
**January 20** ❄ [Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/26) Today’s a very sleepy day; I didn’t get to sit down to read until I was already pretty much dead so I didn’t get very far 😂 I struggled through like a page of 錆喰(さびく)いビスコ (and processed probably none of it lmao) then swapped over to ラストゲーム which was marginally easier for my tired brain, so I read like 8 pages there too. No worries, today was just a long day, so I’m gonna try to read a lot more tomorrow! Weekend ✨ But for now, off to bed for sure. > **Random tangent about ミロ's name** > > So yesterday in 錆喰(さびく)いビスコ, ビスコ asked if ミロ’s name came from “that cocoa thing” and it turned out yeah it does, 「強(つよ)い子(こ)のミロ」, and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about 😂 So I looked it up and [Milo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_(drink)) is a Nestle thing apparently? > > ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/c/6/e/c6ef31ad9adf6d57b3e8071e443a8fdcb86209b6.jpeg) > > I’ve very much never seen this in my life 😂 Not a thing in America apparently, but an interesting cultural thing to come across in the middle of 錆喰(さびく)いビスコ. > > BUT because life is super weird, I went to walmart today and randomly found Milo, so of course I bought some 😂 I think maybe not the standard kind, I just got like a can? Idk but I had to follow through on this series of events, it was too perfect. > **A couple words for funsies** > > 入道雲(にゅうどうぐも) - cumulonimbus, giant columns of clouds (in summer) > 千切(ちぎ)れ雲(ぐも) - scattered clouds > 高原(こうげん) - plateau (love that a plateau is just a tall plain?? you’re so right japanese) > 歯(は)ざわり - texture of food ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_river\_otter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/tiny_river_otter/32/447659_2.png) [@tiny\_river\_otter](https://community.wanikani.com/u/tiny_river_otter)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/794 "2022-01-21T04:18:17Z")
[Summary Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/57) Day 20: Today I read all of chapter 22 of よつば＆！Only thing that confused me in this chapter is that I think Jumbo called Miura-chan a Lamborghini?? …I feel like I must have missed something ---
**Author:** ![Daisoujou](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/daisoujou/32/818333_2.png) [@Daisoujou](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Daisoujou)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/795 "2022-01-21T04:57:12Z")
> [@tiny\_river\_otter](#): > > Only thing that confused me in this chapter is that I think Jumbo called Miura-chan a Lamborghini?? …I feel like I must have missed something I was super confused by this, too! Luckily, in the book club thread, @windupbird posted [the answer](https://community.wanikani.com/t/%E3%82%88%E3%81%A4%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A8-vol-4-discussion-thread-yotsuba-reading-club/30993/13). I had certainly never heard of the car. ---
**Author:** ![valkow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/valkow/32/729227_2.png) [@valkow](https://community.wanikani.com/u/valkow)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/796 "2022-01-21T07:04:46Z")
[Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/valkow-2022-goal-planning/54627/8) **Day 19:** **日本語:** I read a bit of 伯爵と妖精 31. > **中国語** > > **中国語:** I read an intermediate entry on Mandarin Bean and one page of 擅长捉弄的高木同学. ---
**Author:** ![fustian\_garb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/fustian_garb/32/195521_2.png) [@fustian\_garb](https://community.wanikani.com/u/fustian_garb)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/797 "2022-01-21T09:58:15Z")
> [@Daisoujou](#): > > Big goal accomplished I feel like you should remind yourself of this regularly whenever the frustration starts! It sounds great but I cry over everything so probably should go anywhere near an actual crying game. 😂 ---
**Author:** ![sycamore](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/sycamore/32/362777_2.png) [@sycamore](https://community.wanikani.com/u/sycamore)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/798 "2022-01-21T10:16:22Z")
> [@Daisoujou](#): > > Still, the vibes are just what I was dreaming of. Lovely descriptive writing of the environment, beautiful backgrounds, and already some surprisingly moving music. I’m hooked and nothing has happened. ooooooh, this sounds so lovely. Excited to hear more about it! I feel like it will probably end up on my ‘want to play list’ at some point lol. > [@windupbird](#): > > So, I’ve only read the first chapter so far, is that a bit premature to dub this the best manga ever I feel like your super power is finding cute manga! Which works out well for the rest of us 🦝 > [@windupbird](#): > > Please share screenshots of pink haired fashion model guy if/when you meet him, I am intrigued Will do! I’m not sure I will meet him on this playthrough but further play throughs are inevitable at this point haha. ---
**Author:** ![ekuroe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/ekuroe/32/580873_2.png) [@ekuroe](https://community.wanikani.com/u/ekuroe)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/799 "2022-01-21T13:03:00Z")
[🏠](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/58) Day 21! I didn’t read, nor post yesterday… because of both busyness and bad time management. But I’m not being too harsh on myself since this month has been a big improvement in terms of reading consistently and progression. Today I read page 188 of Kiki. I’ll be working half the day tomorrow but should be able to read a fair amount in the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![pocketcat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/pocketcat/32/422463_2.png) [@pocketcat](https://community.wanikani.com/u/pocketcat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/800 "2022-01-21T14:11:25Z")
Today’s article was [誰も助けてはくれない――雪道で動けなくなった1人の教師は投げやりになり「それなら、皆困ればいい」(全文表示)｜Jタウンネット](https://j-town.net/2022/01/18330378.html?p=all) - it’s a woman’s story about her car being stuck on a snowy road and her gratitude towards a young man who helped her. Honestly this was probably the easiest article I’ve read so far in this challenge. I didn’t have much to look up and all I did was largely guessable. A nice change of pace from yesterday where I ended up giving up on the history paragraph. I tried again at night but it was still absolutely exhausting to read and not even interesting… > **Some words I looked up** > > 連なる - to stretch out in a row > ヘトヘト - totally exhausted > 降雪 - this means snow fall but I did not expect the reading > 四輪駆動 - 4WD ---
**Author:** ![Zakarius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/zakarius/32/773695_2.png) [@Zakarius](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Zakarius)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/801 "2022-01-21T16:46:37Z")
🐅 📚 **[Homepost - Tigerdate: 20220121](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/11)** 📚 🦝 * * * **Tanuki Scroll XXI:** [タヌキ憑(つ)き](http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/kaidan/01/21.htm) 🦝 Read today’s 百物語 from [Kyoto Prefecture!](http://hukumusume.com/jap/027_kyouto.htm) About the ghost of a tanuki that possess an おばあちゃん. She starts to develop the qualities of a tanuki (mostly the eating everything part) and they have to get the priest in the exorcise the spirit with the power of ワンワンちゃん. Moral of the story - if you find a dead animal you should bury it, otherwise the spirit may latch onto you! Also, the other day’s reading was about Kagoshima prefecture and the volcano Sakurajima, well the google hivemind’s obviously been watching because it suggested a video to me today of it erupting (in 2019!), thought I’d share because it’s pretty insane: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/a/6/e/a6eefc6fe358f9b8a9c676e7f6c62d2a20d2060c.jpeg "Explosive eruption of Sakurajima on November 12, 2019.　桜島爆発") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqxnJQcQXss) **☆ Learnings ☆** > **New Words** > > **山里** 「やまざと」ー Mountain Village (I could work this one out, but I don’t think I’ve seen it before) > **柴刈り** 「しばかり」ー Firewood gathering > **ミイラ** ー Mummy (as in, a preserved corpse) > **エサ** 「餌」ー Bait; Animal Feed; Fodder; Lure > **四つん這い** 「よつんばい」ー On all fours; On your hands and knees > **バリバリ** ー Crunching; Munching; Tearing; Ripping (onomatopoeia) > **わんわん** ー Doggy (It’s also the noise a dog makes which I’ve seen a lot before, I didn’t know it could mean dog as well though) ---
**Author:** ![fustian\_garb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/fustian_garb/32/195521_2.png) [@fustian\_garb](https://community.wanikani.com/u/fustian_garb)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/802 "2022-01-21T17:04:25Z")
Started reading a new book today - [コーヒーの絵本](https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%BA%84%E9%87%8E-%E9%9B%84%E6%B2%BB/dp/4902744732/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1642784259&s=books&sr=1-1&text=%E5%B9%B3%E6%BE%A4+%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%93). I’m a bit of a coffee nerd and I bought this book hoping it would give me the vocabulary to start being able to talk about coffee more fluently in Japanese. I’d put it to one side intending to read it before we go next time but then got chatting to someone on HelloTalk who works as a barista so it’s time to level up my coffee chat. ![20220121_163448](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/a/d/2ad78a75df1b50c734175865a1bbc40152f2c527.jpeg) ![20220121_163014](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/d/8/4/d84ac42d353534e1d7b9fbae74af204372ee2ad5.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![fustian\_garb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/fustian_garb/32/195521_2.png) [@fustian\_garb](https://community.wanikani.com/u/fustian_garb)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/803 "2022-01-21T17:05:10Z")
> [@Zakarius](#): > > mostly the eating everything part) Help I think I am also possessed by a tanuki. [Previous page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948.md?page=39) [Next page](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948.md?page=41)