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

Japanese Language Reading
315

Jan 8, Mon of Week 2 of Q1 2024

  • いちばんやさしい世界史の本 (32-33%)

  • 狼と香辛料 Vol.1 start Ch.4 (51-59%)

Words of the day
  • 紅海こうかい = Red Sea - Wikipedia
  • マンネリ化か = becoming stereotyped; getting caught in mannerism (マンネリズム)
  • 刷毛はけ = brush. The verb is 刷はく (掃はく).
  • 随一ずいいち = the best
  • 修道女しゅうどうじょ = a nun. Doing a specific form of 修行しゅぎょう.
  • お座ざなり = routine; makeshift; slapdash; perfunctory
  • 他意たいはない = no ulterior motives
  • 御多分ごたぶんに漏もれず = as usual; no exception to the rules
  • 高たかを括くくる = to underrate; to make light of
Book highlights

オスマン帝国 = Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia. English spelling doesn’t feel like Japanese.
イル＝ハン国 = Ilkhanate - Wikipedia (Il-khanate). Font confusion between Il and II.
カスティリャ王国 = Kingdom of Castile - Wikipedia. Today a part of Spain.
ティムール帝国 = Timurid Empire - Wikipedia
サマルカンド = Samarkand - Wikipedia. Sounds like somewhere in Final Fantasy?

サファヴィー朝 = Safavid dynasty - Wikipedia
プレヴェザの海戦 = Battle of Preveza - Wikipedia
イェニチェリ = Janissary - Wikipedia. The shortcut for the first two Kana is YE.
シャー・アッバス1世 = Abbas the Great - Wikipedia
サアディー = Saadi Shirazi - Wikipedia

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