Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Single Day” Challenge, Winter 2023 Edition! :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Ah, New Year’s - always a great opportunity to refresh and restart :grin: New year, new thread, new challenge season! :sparkles: If your New Year’s resolution is to read more in Japanese or work through your backlog of manga/novels, this challenge might be just the thing to get you going. If you missed the previous Read Every Day challenges, feel free to jump in on this one! We would love to have more people join in on the fun and experience the magic of the challenge :sparkles: A little history behind this challenge: in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the awesome idea of doing a “Read Every Day” challenge, where we challenged ourselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months - we liked this challenge so much that we decided to make it a recurring thing! :grin: 1.5 years later, and the challenge is still going strong :heart: Every challenge thread has its own special flavor, but the one thing they always have in common is being positive, encouraging, and fun! There are also usually some cute manga and cute kitties cough @Book9 cough involved :wink: Archive of Past Challenge Threads Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella: Read every day challenge - Fall 2021 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon: Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 :cherry_blossom: :seedling: Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 :beach_umbrella: :sunny: Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf: Why is this challenge so special, or what makes it unique? Well, we think it’s a combination of the short/limited time frame, the habit-focused (versus output-focused) approach to the goal of “reading more,” and the general atmosphere of camaraderie and community spirit that’s been present in each challenge thread thus far ^^ I can say from personal experience that these challenges have helped me read way more than I would have otherwise, and many people (including myself) have noticed significant growth in reading speed and/or stamina while participating in the challenges. Whether you are an expert reader already or a new reader just starting out, everyone is welcome to participate in this challenge! To quote @Redglare: This is a thread for people who: :bookmark: want to spend time reading a bunch this winter :bookmark: want to improve their reading speed and comprehension :bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress :bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of reading every day for two or so months :books: :books: Time frame: January 1 - February 28 This is the “official” recommended time frame, but late starters are absolutely welcome! This thread will be up and running until the end of March, so you can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you. Your reading materials can be whatever you want, be it manga, light novels, books, visual novels, magazines, graded readers, satori reader, Japanese webpages/blogs, or Japanese games - you name it, anything goes as long as it is something in Japanese :jp: :durtle_the_explorer: “Reading” can be interpreted creatively, if that helps keep you motivated - for example, some people have counted reading Japanese subtitles as reading some days. In general, we are a pretty flexible and forgiving bunch :wink: Threads worth checking out I recommend checking out The News Reading Challenge thread if you’d like to read news articles every day, but you are of course welcome to post about it in this thread too if you’d like to. The "news reading" challenge 🗞 If you don’t know where to find reading material I recommend checking out the Immersion/Reading section of the following thread: The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List! There’s also quite a few book clubs here on the forum, some of them have vocab lists which can make for an easier reading experience. A list of book clubs can be found here: Master List of Book Clubs poll Sonny the Durtanuki says, let’s get reading! (Our lovable mascot, created by @Axazel) [4C07F27B-6A3F-4475-B3C4-6AFAD6625894]

New challenge thread is live! :sparkles: :grin: [image] booksbooks Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 cherry_blossomtulipblossom Reading Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Single Day” Challenge, Spring 2023 Edition! cherry_blossomtulipblossom It’s spring time! Time to spring clean your Japanese reading habits and get into a fresh new routine with the Read Every Day Challenge wink If you missed the previous Read Every Day challenges, feel free to jump in on this one! We would love to have more people join in on the fun and experience the magic of the challenge sparkles A little history behind this challenge: in the … If you’re still continuing from the Winter challenge, feel free to keep posting in this thread until April 1st :slight_smile:

Gonna try for real this time. I can’t get myself to post daily, but I’ll try to do it weekly though :v: And use this neat calendar. Currently reading: 夜市 ~52% (want to finish before the end of the month) Paused: Nausicaa Planned: Spirit Circle, finish Nausicaa Jan 月火水木金土日 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 Feb 月火水木金土日 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

Summary post Day 1: January 1st What did I read?: 夜の名前を呼んで Vol 3 How much did I read?: 32 pages How long did it take me?: 37 min Welcome to the first day of the challenge, everyone! Glad to see so many old and new faces :heart: Even some first-time-ever posters, I’m honored that you’ve chosen this thread as your first-ever posting place in this community :blush: I decided to start the challenge season off with the last (currently published) volume of my obsession from the previous challenge, 夜の名前を呼んで. I opened the first page and I’m already falling in love again because look, Rei braided his hair, how cute is that :pleading_face: [2023-01-01 15.25.09] Look at this cute Rei face :confounded: [2023-01-01 15.24.32] Why is he so cute :confounded: :confounded: This was a happy magic times chapter :sparkles: Rei’s roof apparently leaks, so they collected the rainwater and went swimming in the rainwater’s memories, with the help of Stella’s magical bubble soap that gives them swimsuits that allow them to breathe underwater (and also makes them resemble the sea creature of their choice :joy: Mira chose jellyfish so Rei went with a squid ksjhgksdjhfj I thought that was so very cute) [2023-01-01 15.29.25] It was just a lovely little fun time that made Mira happy, so that was nice :3

:snowman_with_snow: :snowflake: January 1 :snowflake: :snowman_with_snow: Home Post NHK (new method for extracting gold) :newspaper_roll: BU$TAFELLOWS :moneybag: Novel in English :books: Well, they say to do January 1 as you mean to go on for the rest of the year, eh? Only I couldn’t possibly fit everything in, but somehow I absolutely smashed some reading today. I forgot to mention on my home post that I hoped to try reading some more regular news. I’ve gotten to a stage where NHK easy is…easy I guess. xD So I want to occasionally dip my toes in and read the regular news. It does mean it takes me longer than just a couple of minutes, if nothing else because the articles are longer, but it wasn’t hard (safarikai for the win (safari/mac version of yomichan)). I also ended up reading in English, I’m reading an old mystery/heist/caper that is pretty exciting. And to finish off the day, I read a couple of more scenes of Bustafellows and got my first memorabilia which is why the home screen now shows I’ve read 1%. So percentage is completely tied to memorabilia and not at all to how much have been read. xD Lastly, the spelling of percentage is one I will never remember and which is why I usually just do % instead, but sometimes I forget just how far off my thoughts on the spelling is and I try typing it. At least all spellcheckers always knows which word I’m trying to write, which means I’m not the only one who finds the spelling weird. :stuck_out_tongue:

This looks so cute! I’m going to have to add this manga to my to be read!

Well then, it’s the first day of the challenge and managed to read the second and third mini chapter in the first volume of 宇崎ちゃんは遊びたい！Was quite surprised at how dense the writing was to be honest so it took me around 30 minutes to fully read only 7 pages but hopefully it’ll get faster. I’ve also spotted some words I’ve only recently learned in Wanikani (like 真似) so that helped ease things along and was quite gratifying. I’m not sure it also counts as read every day but I also started Pokemon Scarlet in japanese and they are quite talkative early on. Managed to sustain a full hour of play time. There wasn’t a lot of action but lots of reading and it also went surprisingly well. Much better than I was last year when I started Paper Mario and the Origami King around June.

Here we go again :chair: Jan :frog: 月火水木金土日 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 Feb 月火水木金土日 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 Mar 月火水木金土日 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 Previous Thread Stats Summer 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2022 Next Spring 2023 Winter Post Mortem [image] booksbooks Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 snowman_with_snowsnowflake Reading Winter 2023 Post Mortem It’s been a year since I started doing this challenge. While my stats for this winter aren’t so great, according to my data for the year, I am showing promise, which is nice. slight_smile This winter in particular had an interesting wrap up, but I hope that this spring and in 2023 as a whole that I pick up more steam, finish JoJo this year, and make my reading goals smiley [image] [image]

January 1st! Today I read the 2nd chapter of volume 10 of Teasing Master Takagi-san. I had planned to do a lot more reading today, but I got invited over to a friends house to meet their new baby so I did that instead of extra reading! He was super cute and teeny! I’m hoping to read more tomorrow though :crossed_fingers: (Home Post)

1/1/23 9 pages Haruiro Astronaut, 3 pages おばちゃんたちのいるところ, 8 pages Cells at Work (finished this week’s reading) I started to read over the chapters at the end of each of volumes 2-5 of Orange, having read the first one ages back. I’m not enjoying them so will probably drop them. Finished Cells at Work for this week so just the IBC to catch up with.

:coffee: :snowflake: Frankie’s home post :snowflake: :coffee: I’ve been struggling to keep a consistent habit when it comes to reading every day so this challenge is just what I need. (Its been very all in or nothing at all which is… :sweat_smile:) the plan No real rules as long as I finish at least a page. Read / catch up to the current schedule for はたらく細胞 before the eighth (abbc) Join the beginner book club reading 月刊少女野崎くん and see if its my level. go though some of the books I have on my shelf and / or play some easy games. Jan 月火水木金土日 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 Feb 月火水木金土日 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 Only linking days with updates Books completed during the challenge hopefully they’ll go here. :snowflake: my listen everyday challenge home post :snowflake:

Home あけおめ！ Today I just finished vol 37 of HQ. Update: Sometime after posting, I ended up picking up vol 38 and reading 5 more chapters.

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