February 7th!
Today I read Chapter 7 of God Bless the Mistaken.
This chapters bug was a fun one, I enjoyed reading it.
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２月７日 (Home Post Link)
had a hard time focusing today, so didn’t want to do too much intensive stuff. Just played some pokemon and kanken practice + my chapter for the day
Read:
- 三ツ星カラーズ ch 4
Word of the Day
すれちがい (すれ違い) ー generally: missing (meeting) each other; passing each other. Here, specifically: the street-pass function of the nintendo 3DS. Remember when that was a thing?
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February 7 
Home Post
Somewhat busy today, but I still got in a decent amount of 山猫 and Steins;Gate so yay! But now I am very sleepy 
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February 7th
What did I read?: 魔女と猫の話
How much did I read?: 5 pages
(Continued 3rd Story )
How long did it take me?: 57 min
Even though Chise is supposed to be a witch, so far the methods she’s used for curing the woman’s insomnia have been things even I could do! 
(Herbal teas, aromatic candles, music, etc.) But I guess the idea is that it’s better to start off with something more straightforward before getting magic involved.
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2 月 8 日
コナの大冒険 第 39 話 
And I’m back to reading about Kona’s adventures. After only 4 days of reading with furigana, it took me quite a while to adjust to having no furigana on Satorireader for kanji I had already learned. In this chapter, I could count with two hands the number of kanji that had furigana so I had to figure out the readings for the rest of them myself. And failed miserably at some… 
using the wrong reading for a few of them. Strange how only a few days of having furigana can have such an effect. I didn’t realize how much I used furigana as a crutch until now. And also how much Satorireader is actually able to help me with exercising my recall!
New vocab:
- 気がする to have a hunch, to have a feeling
- ひょっとすると perhaps, possibly, maybe
- かもしれない may, might, possibly
- 駆け下りる to run down
- はぐれる to lose sight of, to stray from
- 帰り道 way home
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Just curious, what are the numbers measuring? I can’t figure it out 
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Oh, sorry, that is pages per day (the corresponding date is above the number). The line starting with “Februar” can be ignored though
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February 7
Read some more この本を盗む者は, but I’m still going pretty slowly. Played nearly 2.5h of BU$TAFELLOWS and finished chapter 4! Which is supposedly the end of the common route so can’t wait to find out what’s next.
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Ah I see, it’s very precise 
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In most cases it’s recalculated from ebook pages, that’s why the numbers are so weird… probably one digit would be enough though, I agree 
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And for recording the time, are you using Toggl? I seem to recognize the interface. Very cool to have all those stats, now you can also make a speed graph with page / min, and compare how it evolves in time or per book
And very inspiring stats too, I hope to get there one day! (Still working my way through my grammar books so far, combined with Bunpro, Satori Reader, WK and listening practice, it’s steadily going forward!)
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February 8th
Aria: the masterpiece volume 3 – progress report
Yesterday: Read up to page 197.
Today: Finished chapter 28 and continued up to page 320.
Chapter 28 was nice as we got to learn about those Sylphs. The ending to this chapter seemed amusing too, though I’m not sure I fully understood it – something along the lines of a an Undine riding an airbike being at fault for making Aika’s underpants show with Akari being almost a bit too shocked and embarrassed as a result…almost as if she and Woody(?) may have been at fault for that… 
Also, Woody making Akari use the president as a blindfold to not ruin the surprise he had in mind for her – while they were driving to somewhere – was quite the imaginative idea…not to mention dangerous. ‘No Marsian cats were harmed in this chapter, I swear!’ – Kozue Amano 200X, probably.
Poor Aria.
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Word or expression of the day:
古き良き - (ふるきよき) - good old, good old-fashioned
Honourable mention(s)
白昼堂々 - (はくちゅうどうどう) - openly (unashamedly) in broad daylight
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Ah thanks, didn’t know about Clockify, looks like it’s pretty similar to Toggle.
Waw so much stats 
Very cool to see the reading speed ramping up!
I had made something similar when I was reading a Polish book, don’t think I’ll keep it up for Japanese though, I’m getting lazy with tracking data now
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Day 38: February 7th 
シャドーハウス Volume 5 (15% ➨ 17%)
ひよ恋 Volume 1 (37% ➨ 50%)
「ひよ恋」 was kind of a random pick to start reading, and I wasn’t certain what to expect. It started out a bit so-so, and I didn’t care much for the male lead character. But I think it’s getting a bit better.
Not Aika’s, Akari’s. Look back on the flying scenes and you can imagine how that worked out for her.
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Had the day off today (mostly) so caught up a bit on reading. I’m still behind, mostly.
8/2 15 pages Cells at Work (finished volume), 10 pages Spy Family, 15 pages Orange, 2 pages 夜カフェ
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8th feb
today was a better day (mostly) and have now finished shimanami tasogare vol 3! props to this volume for having a character genuinely piss me off (not that vol 2 didn’t have that, but that was more ‘what are you doing’ compared to just outright rage), 10/10 recommend.
words that stood out: 修繕 (しゅうぜん, repair, mending), 開放感 (かいほうかん, sense of space/openness), 相まって (あいまって, coupled with, together), plus 絶叫マシン (ぜっきょうマシン, thrill ride (at an amusement park)) just cos that’s a really fun word
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Day 37
It was the worst day for reading this year just 15 pages of Kindaichi Shounen manga vol.2.
2756 pages read which is just a small step towards the goal of reading 20000 pages this year. Can this even be achieved? Probably not.
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Feb 8, Wed of Week 7 of Winter Q1 2023 
- ふしぎの国のバード Vol.1 Ch.4-5 日光 (end volume)
Foreigners and sightseeing.
- うたわれるもの
Candy time, then deforestation.
Words of the day
- あどけない = childlike
- トンボ = dragonfly. Kanji form is 蜻蛉.
- コック = a chef. It is also called this way in my native tongue.
- しがらみ = ties of obligation = 柵. I see as 仕絡み.
- おめかし = putting on makeup. Verb form is めかす.
- あぶる = to roast; to grill / to warm (hands); to dry (clothes). Kanji form is 炙る / 焙る.
- しおれる = to be dejected; to droop down. Kanji form is 萎れる.
- 衰える = to die down; to decline. 劣る is just to be inferior to
- 負ぶう = to carry child on one’s back
- ～銭 = 1/100 of yen (円)
- 九谷焼 = Kutani porcelain
- 芥子坊主 = a children hairstyle. Probably looks like opium fruit (芥子の果実).
- 髷 = top knot hairstyle. Has Furigana.
- 簪 = ornamental hairpin. Has Furigana.
- 幾何学 = geometry. First Kanji usually means how many.
- 過多 = excessive; too much
- 殺生 = cruel. Unexpected Kanji reading for 殺 too.
- 至福 = extreme bliss
- 存亡 = life or death
- 悪戯心 = desire to make mischief. First part is just 悪戯, but I failed to recognize without Furigana.
- 維新 = reformation, e.g. 明治維新.
- 厚意 = kindness; favor
- 温厚 = gentle; mild-mannered
- 悲壮 = tragic but brave
- 重責 = heavy responsibility = 重大な責任
- 悲恋 = disappointed love
- 初潮 = first menstruation; menarche
- 結髪 = hairdressing; hairdo = 髪を結うこと
- 蝉退 = powder made from roasted cicada (蝉). Also, 蝉退.
- 小麦 = wheat
- 大麦 = barley
- 麦こがし = parched ground barley powder = 麦焦がし, that is, being 焦がす.
- 澱粉 = starch
- 干菓子 = dried confectionary. Not dried is 生菓子.
- 集会 = meeting; assembly
- 散策 = a walk; a stroll = 散歩. 策 means a rod or a cane in this case.
- 後頭部 = back of head; occipital region. 側頭部 = side of head; temporal region
- 真葛 = Kadsura japonica. A creeper plant.
- 腹に据え兼ねる = cannot suppress one’s anger
SFX
- イソイソ = excitedly; cheerfully
Places
- オロシヤ = Russia, in 江戸 era.
- モロコシ = China (in the past). Simply use Kanji 中国 in context.
- Normally, モロコシ = sorghum (I am not good with this one in English, but I know in my native tongue.)
- トウモロコシ = corn; maize
- 東照宮 = any Shinto shrine in which 徳川家康 (1543–1616) is enshrined. He was deified with the name 東照大権現, “the Great Gongen, Light of the East”.
- 九谷 = now a part of Kaga, Ishikawa, in the former Kaga Province.
Names
- 狩野探幽 (1602-1674) = a Japanese painter of the Kanō school. One of the foremost Kanō painters, many of the best known Kanō works today are by Tan’yū.
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Read at a glimpse. Kanji would be easier. Kana and grammar might be harder. Practically I can do this in English. I haven’t really tested this style in Japanese, nonetheless.
It’s indeed a different kind of reading than usual sequential reading.
Perhaps Wanikani + External Definition script + fast review, would prepare for this.
Probably the first time grammar dictionaries on Yomichan is proven useful. (From a thread in Wanikani Community)
Yomichan contents
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