# 📚📚 Read Every Day Challenge - Winter 2024 🎍☃🌲

**URL:** <https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212>\
**Category:** Reading\
**Created:** [December 22, 2023, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212 "2023-12-22T22:50:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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🦝 ❄ 📚 **February 7** 📚 ❄ 🦝

**お月様の唄** 🌙 🎵  
Progress: page 26/35

The prince organises a moonlit festival to try and lure forest spirits out since they’ve disappeared for the past few days.

> **Words Found Under the Moonlight**
>
> 守役「もりやく」ー Guardian; nurse; nanny  
> 頓着「とんちゃく」ー Being concerned about / mindful of  
> 心地「ここち」ー Feeling; sensation; mood

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**Feb 7, Wed** of [Week 6](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/57362/235) of [Q1 2024](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/64212/19)

- いちばんやさしい世界史の本 Ch.5 end [170-174/258]

- 正欲 (1-3%)

A little depressing, but I don’t really hate it.

- STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.10 end

Seeing sprites translating and flipping is funny. How 2D.

> **Press to end**
>
> ![20240207190559_1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/a/b/6/ab6a8406e85e37f23c23c73aad4fec835e84aeee.jpeg)

Alternate route has Ch.11, though; so pause for now.

> **Words of the day**
>
> - 公衆(こうしゅう)の面前(めんぜん)で = in front of the public. Doing something shameful.
> - あられもない(.) = immodest; unbecoming
> - 日射病(にっしゃびょう) = sunstroke. Another word is 熱中症(ねっちゅうしょう), but symptom and not necessarily sun ☀
> - オトガイ(.) = chin. [Kanji form](https://forvo.com/word/%E9%A0%A4%EF%BC%88%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8C%E3%81%84%EF%BC%89/) exists, but not appearing in IME nor context.
> - やりきれない(.) = too much to bear; unbearable
> - 指数(しすう) = index / exponential
> - 暗視(あんし) = night vision
> - 倒錯(とうさく) = perversion; aberration. Really means pervert.
> - 大多数(だいたすう) = majority
> - [氷山(ひょうざん)の一角(いっかく)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%B0%B7%E5%B1%B1%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%80%E8%A7%92)に過(す)ぎない = no more than the tip of the iceberg 🗻
> - 塩(しょ)っぱい = salty / troubled looking
> - ～の極致(きょくち) = ultimate of; peak of
> - 何様(なにさま)のつもり = who do I even think I am (you are). Like 偉(えら)い version of 何者(なにもの).
> 
> * * *

> **Book highlights**
>
> アミアンの和訳 = [Treaty of Amiens - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens)  
> ナポレオン法典 = [Napoleonic Code - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code)  
> トラファルガーの海戦 = [Battle of Trafalgar - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar). IME suggests [トラファルガー・ロー ☠](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC)  
> ネルソン伯爵 = [Earl Nelson - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Nelson)  
> アウステルリッツの戦い = [Battle of Austerlitz - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz)  
> ティルジットの和約 = [Treaties of Tilsit - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Tilsit)  
> [大陸封鎖令](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%99%B8%E5%B0%81%E9%8E%96%E4%BB%A4) = [Berlin Decree - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Decree) (ベルリン勅命)  
> ライプチヒの戦い = [Battle of Leipzig - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig)  
> ワーテルローの戦い = [Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo)  
> 「英雄」 = [Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._3_(Beethoven)#Dedication), formerly dedicated to 「[ボナパルト](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon)」

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[Home Thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/740) **// February 7th, 2024**

I managed to read the NHK Easy Article that I planned to. Appearently, it was an Austrian that introduced skiing to Japan, which is quite funny, as I’m from Austria myself hehe

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📓 💻 ☃ ❄ **February 6**

Read あなたも殺人犯になれる！ chapter 9 and played 逆転裁判 for 20 min. I’m having fun with this, too bad I don’t have more time to read.

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[🌸 🫖 Home post and thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/12)

2月7日水曜日

🐸 かえるくん、東京を救う (_Super Frog saves Tokyo_), short story by Haruki Murakami, 3 pages.

Waw, some passages were very challenging and when the sentences are too long, I end up mixing up everything 😆  
Today I tried to read first what is at the end of the sentence, beginning with the verb, then going from it to the rest, and it worked quite well^^  
I’ve read 13 pages on 36 so far, and I want to know how it ends !!!

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🏠 [home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/64212/13) 🏠  
📅 **2024年2月7日** 📅

| ❓ | Title | Read today | Currently at | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 📙 | Fujiki | 2 episodes | 3/41 | — |
| 🚃 | 阪急電車 | 1% | 62% | 10 new words |
| 👘 | 舞妓さんちのまかないさん | 1 chapter | 115/261 | — |

Not much reading done today but I have a good excuse, went out to eat a delicious ramen 😁

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🔖 [Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/64212/8) // Feb 7 ☃ 📚

・サイレント・ウイッチ VI (54% → 57%)

Today was busier than expected, had friends over at my place. Tomorrow will probably be more of a reading day, there’s a train ride in my schedule 👌

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### 2024-02-07

[⏮ Previous](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/1031) | [🏠 Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/119) | [Next ⏭](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/1182)

| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2024-02-07 | [👩‍👧 老女的少女ひなたちゃん3](https://learnnatively.com/book/8485d678aa/) | 📗 Manga | ✅ Chapter 19-25.5  
📄 178 pages | ⏳ 1h25m |

Well I wanted to put something on the tracker for this week as complete, so I read all of volume 3 of Hinata-chan today. (And that’s another Natively bingo to tick off). From a story perspective, it’s clear that we’re meant to think Sakuya thinks Sadao murdered her at this point, buuut I don’t think Sadao is Nagisa, and I’m also not 100% sure she was literally murdered instead of metaphorically. But we’ll see where the story goes.

I was partway into chapter 25.5 and I hade to look up a few words, and it suddenly clicked to me that there had been no furigana in like ten pages. “Wait, weren’t they adding furigana for stuff like 言う and 大丈夫 until now?”, I thought, before having a moment of worry given I’d nominated volume 1 of this for the ABBC and was pretty sure it had furigana. But a quick check back at the rest of volume 3 and of volume 1 reveals this is a Chapter 25.5 only thing, I guess they just didn’t bother for the long extra chapter for whatever reason. Even the short bonus chapter got furigana, so I guess 25.5 was added for this edition? I guess it makes sense, 25 ends on a cliffhanger, so I’m guessing 25.5 is out of sequence too. Or possibly imagined by Sadao.

Anyway, depending on how tomorrow goes, there’s a good chance my next update won’t be until next Tuesday, so don’t think I’ve given up on the challenges if you don’t hear from me for a few days.

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2月7日 | [Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/59)

- 夜カフェ 1 (17.00% → 19.00%)
- アオハライド (2) pp. 1-22

I got distracted again, but I’ll argue that it was an investment for the future.

> **The result of my distraction**
>
> Now I have the same setup for reading manga on my laptop and on my shiny new Android tablet 🤩
> 
> ![1000043757](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/0/f/9/0f96eeba302d0118baefd340accf9b8e86527bdc.jpeg)

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Amazing 🤩 Do you live in Japan?

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**7 Feb** | [Home](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/10)

| ❓ | Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 🥘 | ダンジョン飯２ | manga | [30](https://learnnatively.com/book/045a930572/) | 81% → 100% (complete) |
| 🍬 | 不思議駄菓子屋1 | book | [24](https://learnnatively.com/book/5b9046476c/) | 17% - no change |
| 🐈 | また、同じ夢を見ていた | book | [25](https://learnnatively.com/book/2c1e37ec2e/) | 10% - no change |

- Another chapter of Dungeon Meshi 2 to finish out the book. This was more like it, substantially trickier than the last two chapters even though it was mostly just casual (well, as casual as you can discussing monster ecology and soap-making) dialogue. By my calculations I will be ahead of this week’s anime episode, I think. (I skip the omakes because they’re super dense)

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**Feb 7**

[Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/23)

Page 17 18 19 from 同じ夢.

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[Home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/64212/72)

**Feb 7**

- スキップ・ビート! second half of chapter 64  
Just a short read today.

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I read seven level one stories and two level two stories.

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### 🧧🏙 **２月 ７日** 🏙🌕

| | Book | Natively | Progress | Type |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 🌠 | 美知子(みちこ)の星空(ほしぞら) | [L 19](https://learnnatively.com/book/5557b80c30/) | 60% → 66% | Reader |
| 🐬 | マグメル新海(しんかい)水族館(すいぞくかん) | [L 24](https://learnnatively.com/book/450244fdd5/) | 27% → 42% | Manga |
| 📓 | 新にほんご 500問 N2 | [L 33](https://learnnatively.com/book/13063928b7/) | 8% → 12% | Text |

Adding the textbook I’ve been hacking away at this week so I can feel accomplished by the completion percentage even if my brain hurts sometimes 🥹

If you’ve been dying to know how Michiko is doing, she seems to have found a better man while working at the sugarcane farm lmao now I just need a Sousuke vs. Hiroshi standoff (for some razzle dazzle)

If you remember my Atelier obsession, 🐬 マグメル similarly hosts some really fun non-panel pages and I also love when the story is interspersed with facts about undersea creatures:

> **minor spoilers**
>
> ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/5/6/4/5645049a8384273b8e4ef7487d4c083702ab6ef8.jpeg)
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> ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/2/3/1/2319db6adf56e2c99d63f3224f0813a5fc151f33.jpeg)

See you next time!

↑ [zoom back up to home thread](https://community.wanikani.com/t/64212/5)

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> [@Akashelia](#):
>
> Not much reading done today but I have a good excuse, went out to eat a delicious ramen 😁

OMG that looks so good! 😋

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My cold’s been kicking my ass, so I can’t remember when I last updated .

Feb. 6

Worked partway through ch 3 of みんなの日本語 Vol. 2.

Feb. 7

Read one level 2 graded reader on Tadoku about Hokkaido. I understood it pretty well! I’ve somehow had more than one Japanese teacher from Hokkaido, so it’s my favourite region of Japan. (I have never been to Japan).

Other than that, I finished 13 Sentinels. The text was in English, but I’d set the voiceover to Japanese so it was fun to realize how much my understanding increased as I learned new words.

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**8th feb**

[home post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-every-day-challenge-winter-2024/64212/20)

> [@nyxqueenofshadows](#):
>
> i feel like i’ve doing wayyyy fewer look-ups than i used to in the earlier volumes

okay so this is still true but i was definitely asking to be hit with a very heavy look-up chapter wasn’t i 😂 ah well, i blame kyouya. still, vol 10 complete! started the next manga the randomiser gave me, シンデレラは探(さが)さない which seems to be a light slice of life romance kind of thing. only read a chapter of that, but did read more of the bakumatsu book to compensate. about halfway through that now! (update: also translated a page)

today’s nhk articles were [this one](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240208/k10014352321000.html) and [this one](https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240208/k10014351781000.html)(not gonna pretend i fully understood the stocks one, but i read it), and the entries on 例(れい)の and relative clause in aDoIJG

> **words that stood out**
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> 桜蘭(おうらん)：  
> めんそーれ - okinawan for いらっしゃい  
> 蛋白(たんぱく)質(しつ) - protein. usually in katakana but was it in ouran? was it hell  
> パン食(く)い競走(きょうそう) - game in which a dangling piece of bread is grabbed in the mouth and raced to the finish line (in school sports festivals)
> 
> シンデレラ：  
> 利便(りべん) - convenient. love when they flip the kanji and meaning is similar but different

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**Feb 8, Thu** of [Week 6](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/57362/235) of [Q1 2024](https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/64212/19)

- STEINS;GATE (VN) all endings clear

Much longer than expected. (Around 5 hours perhaps.) Lesson learnt, don’t think the end is near.

Also, 1 CG still missing.

- いちばんやさしい世界史の本 start Ch.6 [176-181/258]

> **Words of the day**
>
> - しっぺ返(がえ)し = retaliation
> - 黒地(くろじ) = black background. 赤字(あかじ) on top, in context. Different じ, though.
> - 又聞(またぎ)き = hearsay; secondhand info
> - いちゃもんを付(つ)ける = to pick a fight by finding fault. いちゃもん is a complaint.
> - 熱(ねつ)を帯(お)びる = to get feverish
> - 徒手空拳(としゅくうけん) = barehanded; empty handed. 空拳(くうけん) is like 徒手(としゅ) or 素手(すで), or sometimes 空手(からて).
> - 干(ほ)される = to have a career lost. Get dried.
> - サロン的(てき) = socially exclusive. [サロン](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3) refers to high-class gathering.
> - 心頭滅却(しんとうめっきゃく) = clearing one’s mind of mundane thought. Full is [心頭滅却(しんとうめっきゃく)すれば火(ひ)もまた涼(すず)し](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%BF%83%E9%A0%AD%E6%BB%85%E5%8D%B4%E3%81%99%E3%82%8C%E3%81%B0%E7%81%AB%E3%82%82%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9F%E6%B6%BC%E3%81%97). The verb is 滅却(めっきゃく).
> - [二足(にそく)の草鞋(わらじ)を履(は)く](https://kotowaza-dictionary.jp/k0233/) = to engage in two trades at the same time; to wear two pairs of shoes at the same time 🎩. Far from [3](https://next.rikunabi.com/journal/20170128_D1/), but rather 5 in context, though.
> - [調子(ちょうし)が出(で)る](https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/uknow/questions/15184/) = to get into swing of things
> - チャンバラ(.) = samurai fight; Chambara. From ちゃんちゃんバラバラ ⚔💫. [A movie genre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_cinema).
> - [永世中立国(えいせいちゅうりつこく)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E6%B0%B8%E4%B8%96%E4%B8%AD%E7%AB%8B%E5%9B%BD) = permanently neutral country. 永世(えいせい) + 中立(ちゅうりつ) + 国(くに).
> 
> * * *

> **Book highlights**
>
> [ウィーン会議](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E4%BC%9A%E8%AD%B0) = [Congress of Vienna - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna)  
> メッテルニヒ = [Klemens von Metternich - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemens_von_Metternich)  
> 神聖同盟 = [Holy Alliance - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Alliance)  
> 四国同盟 = [Quadruple Alliance (1815) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple_Alliance_(1815))  
> 「会議は躍る」 = [Der Kongreß tanzt - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kongre%C3%9F_tanzt) (The Congress Dances)
> 
> * * *
> 
> 七月革命 = [July Revolution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Revolution)  
> オルレアン家 = [House of Orléans - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Orl%C3%A9ans)  
> ルイ・フィリップ = [Louis Philippe I - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I)  
> ヴィドック = [Eugène François Vidocq - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq)  
> 「[赤と黒](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E8%B5%A4%E3%81%A8%E9%BB%92)」 = [The Red and the Black - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black) (Le Rouge et le Noir)
> 
> * * *
> 
> 二月革命 = [French Revolution of 1848 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848) (February Revolution)  
> 三月革命 = March Revolution. See [German revolutions of 1848–1849 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849).  
> ギゾー = [François Guizot - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Guizot)  
> [ルイ・ナポレオン](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3) = [Napoleon III - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III), that is, [ナポレオン3世](https://www.wanikani.com/vocabulary/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%9D%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E4%B8%89%E4%B8%96).  
> 「共産党宣言」 = [The Communist Manifesto - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto)

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# 5 Feb - 7 Feb

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| **Title** | **Pages read** | **Progress** | **Status** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ふらいんぐうぃっち vol. 8 | 64-96 | 96/176 | reading |
| ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 vol. 5 | 142-153 | 153/256 | reading |

The Quidditch chapter was pretty fun and easy to read. Flying Witch was, on opposite, harder than usual, with so much text.

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