# 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

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**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")\
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**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 8, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/365 "2022-01-08T17:05:01Z")

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🐅 📚 **[Homepost - Tigerdate: 20220108](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2022/54948/11)** 📚 🦝

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1 week (+1 day) of reading! 📚  
I was too preoccupied with the healthy plants yesterday that I didn’t even notice it’s been a week already

**Tanuki Scroll VIII:** [おいしいおかゆ](http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/world/01/08.htm) 🥣 & [キツネの恩返し](http://hukumusume.com/douwa/pc/minwa/01/08d.html) 🦊

First is a world folk tale (a Grimm’s tale) about porridge! so much porridge

I think this one’s aimed at smaller kids than the usual stories on here since I found it rather easy. Which is a nice reminder that my reading has actually improved!

> **Small reflection that ended up not being so small**
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> I enjoyed the Summer and Autumn challenges (a lot) but I’m enjoying this one even more as it feels my reading has improved quite a bit (big thanks to these reading challenges!! 😀). It doesn’t take me as long anymore, so the stories are making a lot more sense, since I don’t have to keep checking and rechecking the same words all the time, and I’m catching on to some of the puns and nuances a bit more.
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> I did keep up with my reading after the Autumn challenge but didn’t read anything during the Christmas-New Year period and it feels like my Japanese ability has magical incubated itself in the downtime (that or it’s the magic power of the sake I had at new year). Well, my reading has improved at least, I’m still bombing the reviews I have left on WaniKani but I think that’s more due to the words left are ones I never come across and just, you know, those words that for some reason your brain refuses to learn because reasons.
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> It actually feels like I’m making headway on this whole Japanese thing.
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> ANYWAY back to the reading!

The second story was another short one, a folktale from [Yamagata Prefecture](http://hukumusume.com/jap/006_yamagata.htm), about a fox who tricks people but ends up getting caught and sees the errors of its way (after getting threated to become fox soup).

**☆ Learnings ☆**

> **New Words**
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> **騙す** 「だます」ー To deceive, to trick. (I feel I should have seen this by now with all the fox stories I’ve read, but if I have I really don’t remember it)  
> **村はずれ** 「むらはずれ」ー Outskirts of a village / the edge of town
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> **Names**  
> **次助** 「じすけ」  
> **善作** 「ぜんさく」

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