📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄

Japanese Language Reading
#37
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What I'm Reading
  1. 三ツ星カラーズ
  • as of December 29th, I’ve read chapter 1, chapter 3, half of chapter 4 and half of chapter 2 (I’m catching up with the Absolute Beginner Book Club)
  1. 僕らはみんな河合荘
  • starting from chapter 1, page 9/15
  1. よつばと!
  • starting from chapter 23, as I’ve already read the previous ones

  1. おじさまと猫

  2. 地縛少年花子くん

  3. 幸色のワンルーム

Progress

January:

  • 1st: I spent 37 minutes reading 僕らはみんな河合荘. I started by rereading pages 9 and 10, to verify how much I remembered from last time and then read 3 more pages. I’m currently at chapter 1, page 13/15.

  • 2nd: I decided it was a good moment to catch up with the ABBC. I reread the first half and then read the second half of 三ツ星カラーズ chapter 4. It took me exactly 30 minutes. I learnt about the use of やがる. Now I’m completely caught up. Next week, I’ll start reading chapter 5.
    Later during the day, I discovered that chapter 1 of おじさまと猫 is available for free (for a limited time) on BookWalker. I read 5 chapters / 24 pages (in 42 minutes). It’s quite simple and extremely cute!

  • 3rd: At first, I wasn’t sure if I should start another manga, but there are still 16 days until the first volume of 地縛少年花子くん expires and I noticed it has furigana over every kanji, so I couldn’t resist. I read 16 pages in 57 minutes.
    I also needed some more of おじさまと猫, so I reread chapter 5 and read chapter 6 and 7. It took me 30 minutes.
    Hopefully, I can finish them both in time.

  • 4th: I felt like reading some more of 地縛少年花子くん and I got really into it. I read pages 16-39 and spent 1h46min doing it. Even though I’ve already seen the anime, so I know what’s going to happen, reading the manga is a lot of fun. BBC’s vocabulary list is quite useful. Thanks to it, I can read faster than I would normally do. Having said that, the list isn’t complete, so I added more words to it. Maybe someone will use it later on.

  • 5th: I managed to finish the first chapter of 地縛少年花子くん. I read pages 40-55. In total, I was reading for 1h 36min. There were many words I didn’t know and didn’t find on the vocabulary list, but thanks to furigana I was able to figure out what the characters were saying. I’m enjoying the manga more than I thought I would.

  • 6th: 地縛少年花子くん (1h 24min) and 幸色のワンルーム (1h 5min)

  • 7th: 幸色のワンルーム (41min) and おじさまと猫 (30min)

  • 8th: 地縛少年花子くん (33min) and 幸色のワンルーム (54min)

  • 9th: 地縛少年花子くん (1h 18min) and 幸色のワンルーム (30min)

  • 10th: 幸色のワンルーム (39min)

  • 11th: 地縛少年花子くん (33min)

  • 12th: 地縛少年花子くん (55min)

  • 13th: おじさまと猫 (34min)

  • 14th: おじさまと猫 (45min)

Finished

  1. Jan, 10th: 1st volume of 幸色のワンルーム

  2. Jan, 12th: 1st volume of 地縛少年花子くん

Key

✗ = didn’t read
✓ = read for 30 minutes or more
★ = read for an hour or more

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#38

First off, I definitely agree with everything @Redglare said! I think doing the daily posts has helped me maintain accountability too, because it’s an easy way to show that I’ve read that day and track what I’ve read (obviously, the summary post does that as well, but it feels less “visible” to others since it’s just editing a previous post vs. a brand new post).

I also just enjoy sharing things that are cute or that made me laugh or fun new words I learned or whatever I may or may not have been responsible for bringing the tanuki into the last thread :eyes: so for me, it can be fun and motivating to share with the group via daily posts. I think it’s nice to be able to see what people are up to each day, and I think it adds to the team spirit feeling as well ^^ I know I’ve also gotten good ideas for additional things to read/check out from reading other people’s update posts in previous threads.

One thing I will say about my experience doing daily posts is that it can become a double-edged sword of sorts - doing daily posts does add more time to the overall process (especially if you’re me and you spend hours writing posts as a general rule), and that can make it feel a bit burdensome sometimes. I’m going to keep doing daily posts this challenge, because I do have fun sharing, but I’m going to try not to pressure myself to post super detailed updates all the time, if I’m tired and don’t feel like it - some people’s update posts are much more simple than mine have historically been, and that’s totally fine as well.

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#39

We may potentially end up overlapping on よつばと！then at some point during this challenge if you are also close to the beginning of the series - I look forward to seeing your updates if you decide to read through vol.2 onwards!

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#40

:snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: Winter 2022 Reading Challenge :snowman_with_snow: :snowflake:

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Status: In Progress
Completion: 19 / 59 days (32%)

Daily division
January

January 1
君の名は , 8 pages.

January 2
君の名は , 6 pages.

January 3
君の名は , 8 pages.

January 4
君の名は , 10 pages.

January 5
君の名は , 9 pages.

January 6
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 7
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 8
君の名は , 9 pages.

January 9
君の名は , 8 pages.

January 10
君の名は , 8 pages.

January 11
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 12
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 13
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 14
君の名は , 6 pages.

January 15
君の名は , 6 pages.

January 16
君の名は , 6 pages.

January 17
君の名は , 7 pages.

January 18
君の名は , 10 pages.

January 19
君の名は , 9 pages.

Previous Challenges

2021:

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#41

I may not have much time to read since I’ll have classes soon, but I’d still like to try something like this. So, I’ll keep the bar low in terms of what counts as reading. Making updates with what I’ve read sounds pretty interesting as well.
I think I’ll mainly be reading from video games and Naruto. I come across a lot of Japanese players in Monster Hunter Rise, and it’s been pretty fun trying to read their names and shoutouts.

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Updates
Reading List
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#42

:snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: Winter 2022 Reading Challenge :snowman_with_snow: :snowflake:

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Status: In Progress
Completion: 3 / 59 days (5%)

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#43

:snowman: :snowman_with_snow:sycamore winter reading summary post :books: :snowflake:

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Things I currently plan to read/am reading:
  • 呪術廻戦- the first 8 volumes of this are free on bookwalker until 6th Jan and I’m currently at the start of vol 3 so I’m guessing my first week or so will be taken up with this!
  • 5分後に意外な結末(赤い悪夢) - I’m 2 short stories into this collection. They are pretty light and fun reads.
  • book club things (kikis, haikyuu, yotsuba) I probably won’t track these too much here
  • a novel! I really want to read another novel during this challenge but I will use the first week of reading 呪術廻戦 to decide which one. It might be ハイ☆スピード! (which @windupbird made sound very fun and cute in the first challenge). Update I picked one! I’m reading 鏡の孤城 :slight_smile:
  • I’ve also been playing quite a few games in japanese (ace attorney, tokimeki memorial girls side 4 - so it’s possible I will dip back into those at times.
Completed
Manga
  • 呪術廻戦５-8
Links to daily updates

January
01, 02,
03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31.

February
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06,
07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
28.

I would like to do a bit better at doing if not daily, then regular updates this time around as I think it does make a big difference to my motivation when I do so, although the time taken is a trade off as others have mentioned. I’m going to try to use this challenge to try to push myself forward to read some more challenging things (prose is hard, no fun pictures :sob:) but keep to my ‘if I’m not having fun then I’m dropping it’ rule :slight_smile:

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#45

Thanks so much for setting this up! Looking forward to participating in my first challenge and reading more to improve my Japanese :smiley:

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Goals: Finish all of あずまんが大王 vols 1-3 or as much as I can of it lol
Jan 11 Edit: Finished Vol. 1! While waiting for vols 2 + 3 to deliver I’ll read some Yotsuba.

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#46

After last year trying many methods of learning vocab, I found out that just looking up everything you don’t know/you’re not certain of is the best way (for me). Also reading more in stead of SRS-ing every word you come across is ultimately what made my time reading significantly more enjoyable!

When you look up words multiple times, your brain will make the connection between the word and the meaning over time. If you don’t see a word enough for it to stick, then it was not important enough for you to learn it

That’s my unasked advice for you ;D I will look forward to your posts and progress over the months ^^

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#47

I’m so excited to start this challenge with everyone! That being said, welcome to my home post! :house_with_garden:

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Goals and Resources

  • また、同じ夢を見てた - I would like to finish the whole book if possible but I have to work around my new time schedule

  • スパイファミリー - Finish volume 1

  • 古見さんは、コミュ症です- If possible, finish volume 13

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#48

Reply to any of the posts including calendars, and then just copy paste the code. And welcome!

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#49

@foxabell There’s this button:

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#50

@fustian_garb, @Redglare

Well, both of those methods are easier than mine, which was to google “Discourse make table” and then spend about 40 minutes making a mess of it before eventually managing to get something I was happy with. :sweat_smile:
At least I learned something new I guess :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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#51

Should make my calendar I guess :sweat_smile:

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Manga

I’m going to aim for one chapter a day I think, and go from there. If I need to I’ll keep adding more to the list (maybe some Vol2 and Vol3 I have if any catches my interest) or if I need to drop one, etc.

1。おじいさまと猫 Vol 1
2。のんのんびより Vol 1
3。海月姫 Vol 1
4。不滅のあなたへ Vol 1
5。パンプキン シザーズ Vol 1

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#52

:sloth: :sloth: :sloth: :sloth: :sloth:home post :sloth: :sloth: :sloth: :sloth: :sloth:

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What I'm reading

Manga version of 君たちはどう生きるか which I bought before knowing that Miyazaki was a film based on it but now look like a proper Ghibli nerd. I’m was intending to finish read it in it’s entirety over the Xmas holidays but people keep asking me to leave the house (!!!) so it looks like I’ll be finishing it in January.
ズッコケ恐怖体験 which is number 14 in the それいけズッコケ三人組 series that I started reading during the last challenge, but is the third volume that I will be reading of the series.
I’m also on volume 3 of こぐまのケーキ屋さん which I try to read a few pages of before bed each night.
I’ll also count any days when I play クレヨンしんちゃん『オラと博士の夏休み』~おわらない七日間の旅 because it’s very text/story heavy. FINISHED 3/01/2021

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#53

Hi everyone,

Been studying Japanese for about a year and a half but just joined WK today to try and start catching up with my Kanji studies. Been trying to read more outside of textbooks recently and thought this challenge seems like a fun way to stay motivated and get into the habit of reading frequently.

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What I'm reading

I am currently mainly reading よつばと！(will be trying to get through at least 1 chapter / day), but I have also started to read Haruki Murakami’s ねじまき鳥クロニクル (although at a very slow pace so far as there are a lot of Kanji I need to look up, but I’m thinking of making my goal reading ~1 page/day of this as well) and I try to read the news in Japanese from time to time as well.

Edit 5 Jan 2022: I have been listening to a lot of Japanese music recently and have been considering reading through and translating the lyrics to some of the tracks I listen to the most. If I end up doing it I will probably post the lyrics and translations here in case anyone wants to read them.

Progress

Jan 1 - よつばと！ vol. 3 ch.17
Jan 2 - よつばと！ vol. 3 ch.18 & 19
Jan 3 - よつばと！ vol. 3 ch.20
Jan 4 - よつばと！ vol. 3 ch.21 (Finished volume 3)
Jan 5 - よつばと！ vol. 4 ch.22
Jan 6 - よつばと！ vol. 4 ch.23
Jan 7 - Didn’t read :c

Hopefully i managed to work out how to format this properly ^^

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#54

Have you read the English version/are you familiar with his writing style? I ask because I tried reading that book and found the meandering and non-sequitur writing style to be immensely frustrating. It’s also a big jump up from よつばと from what I recall of it.
If you’re a fan of his or enjoying the book already feel free to disregard, of course. :slight_smile:

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#55

I have read Norwegian wood and 1Q84 in english as well as one of his short stories (夜中の汽笛について…) in Japanese before and enjoyed them so I figured I’d give it a go.
You’re right it’s quite the jump up in difficulty from よつば but I like to have something more complicated to read to expand my vocabulary in addition to よつば which i can read more casually. I may be in a little bit over my head with this one though, if I find it’s too difficult to keep up with the story I may drop it for now and try again later.

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#56
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I modified the calendars that I used in the Fall reading challenge that I got from @chrisosaurus on this post.

My Fall Reading challenge

Summary

The Fall reading challenge was the first time I was doing something like this. My goal for learning Japanese is to read Japanese media in its original language. More than a decade has passed since I started learning Japanese and I am still a beginner when it comes to reading. So I decided to try reading how I learnt in my native language- reading every day by pronouncing the words. I learnt to read early. I inherited my bookworm tendencies from my parents. Both of them liked to read and there were always books in my house. (I don’t really remember when I learnt to read. I just know that by the time I was 7, I was a smooth reader and challenging books above my supposed level.)

For the Fall reading challenge, I started with manga that I’ve already read in English. I do not stop to look up words so for now I am only reading manga with furigana. It is my hope that eventually I will be able to take off the “training wheels” and read the kanji directly. I started with Cheeky Angel (天使な小生意気) and when I finished that, I started both オトメン(乙男) and 会長はメイド様！I got frustrated reading 会長はメイド様！There were too many words so I went back to オトメン(乙男). I am almost finished volume 1 so I will continue that for the Winter reading challenge.

I continued with the reading every day because I enjoyed setting streaks. However, it is also good practice because I have found myself recognising kanji and vocabulary that I’ve learnt on WaniKani. So I intend to continue with this challenge in some form or another for months to come.

In the Fall challenge, I alternated between shounen and shoujo manga. So I may do the same for this challenge.
What I intend to read:
オトメン(乙男) １

1st January

Read pgs. 195-202. End of volume 1.

山田くんと７人の魔女 １

第１話 してみましょう。
2nd January

Read pgs. 1-11.

3rd January

Read pgs. 12-21.

4th January

Read pgs. 22-32.

5th January

Read pgs. 33-46.

6th January

Read pgs. 47-60.

7th January

Read pgs. 61-64. End of chapter 1.

第２話 俺にも見せろよー。
8th January

Read pgs. 65-72.

9th January

Read pgs. 73-89.

10th January

Read pgs. 90-94. End of chapter 2.

第３話 強い女 嫌いじゃねえよ。
11th January

Read pgs. 95-106.

12th January

Read pgs. 107-116. End of chapter 3.

第４話 Eだ。
13th January

Read pgs. 117-123.

14th January

Read pgs. 124-135.

15th January

Read pgs. 134-138. End of chapter 4.

第５話 一緒にやろうぜ！
16th January

Read pgs. 139-147.

17th January

Read pgs. 148-154.

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#57

Hullo, I’m also joining again! I had a lot of fun with the Fall challenge, looking forward to doing this one with everyone :smiley: I’ll be reading 極主夫道, ハイキュー！！, よつば＆！and ツバサ Reservoir Chronicle.

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