:books::books: Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Winter 2024 Edition! :bamboo::snowman_with_snow::evergreen_tree: Hello! Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re experiencing winter. It’s the perfect time of year to curl up under some blankets and read. For folks in the Southern Hemisphere… well you need something to take your mind off the heat, don’t you? So let’s get reading! This Season's Emoji Explanation In Japan, one of the most important holidays is New Years. Families gather together to celebrate the coming spring. One of the decorations you can find at many homes is a barrel or wooden bucket of bamboo with some other winter greenery. They represent the longevity that people hope for. The second emoji is a snowman and if you’re from a country with snow, it’s a common winter sight. However, have you noticed this emoji is a Japanese snowman? In comparison with Western snowmen that are made of 3 balls, Japanese snowmen are typically built with only 2 balls. Lastly, the final emoji is a pine tree. Across various cultures in the Northern hemisphere, pines and evergreens have stood out to ancient peoples as one of the few plants that stay green in winter. It’s a symbol of life in many cultures. Where does this challenge come from? Back in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the great idea of a “Read Every Day” challenge, in which participants challenged themselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months. Since then and until now, @Redglare and @windupbird have hosted this challenge every season. Thanks to them, many of us have improved our Japanese and lifestyles! You might notice that I am neither a bird nor glare. I offered to take over the challenge since they’re quite busy (お疲れ様！), but of course they’re welcome to take it back at any time if they want to. I’ll do my best to keep up the encouragement! Please help us keep this a positive, encouraging, and fun space! Please feel free to bribe encourage fellow participants with cute pet and animal photos or recipes even. 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: Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 :cherry_blossom::tulip::blossom: Read every day challenge - Summer 2023 :sunglasses::sunny: Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 :scarf: :fallen_leaf: :maple_leaf: While the name of the challenge is “Read Every Day,” you may have noticed that it also has a season attached. That’s because each challenge only lasts 2 months. Forever would be a long commitment. By having clear start and end dates, it becomes a much more manageable goal. At the end of the challenge, please consider what worked or didn’t work for you. Did you have fun? Then you can take a break or decide to keep going. Also, please don’t worry about starting late or not completing the challenge! Life happens. This is an open opportunity for everyone who wants to set some reading goals. Everyone is welcome. Some participants have even started tracking their reading in other languages. As @Redglare has said: 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: To add onto that, this is also a thread for people who want to track or talk about their reading too. If you’d like a computer to do most of your tracking, please check out Natively. Time frame: January 1 - February 29 Again, late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through March and some may give some updates even later. It’s all good! 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. Personally, I usually extend my reading into the 3rd month since I find these challenges have been great at helping me reach my annual reading goals. As @windupbird has said 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: Need help finding something to read? Check these threads out! The News Reading Challenge - folks typically read the easy NHK article of the day or other similar articles from various apps The "news reading" challenge 🗞 The Immersion portion of this thread has a lot of great resources The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List! Reading the same book with others can be pretty motivating. It’s also easier to ask about grammar or vocab, so how about joining a book club? If you don’t want to join, you could always take it as a recommended book instead. A list of book clubs can be found here: Master List of Book Clubs poll Happy reading!

The spring thread is live! [image] booksbooks Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2024 cherry_blossomdangoseedling Reading booksbooks Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Spring 2024 Edition! cherry_blossom dango seedling It’s a time of beginnings and flower blossoms in much of the world! For those of us with hay fever, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a book indoors. Or for the lucky, you can relax at a park and read in the sunlight. play_button This Season's Emoji Explanation Where does this challenge come from? Back in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the great idea of a “Read Every Day” c…

Home Post 1月1日月曜日 In reading bookclub week 2. I found about the grammar point te from. Still reading more about it and taking notes.

1月1日 | Home post ふらいんぐうぃっち (1) Chapter 4 Read the entry for がてら which appeared in the beginning of this chapter (but did not add it to my reviews). I also read dialogues 2-11/26 from JapanesePod101.com Lower Intermediate Season 2, which I must finish in the next few days, since my subscription will expire this week.

:snowflake: :coffee:SB’s Home Post :coffee::snowflake: あけましておめでとうございます! :smiley: :heart: :sparkles: Thank you @DIO-Berry for hosting the challenge! I’d participated in the Read Every Day challenge for the first time during winter last year, and had thoroughly enjoyed it. This time, my goal is to read something in Japanese every single day and post daily updates on this thread (I realized last year that I suck at writing updates, so that seems to be the bigger challenge for me now :sweat_smile:). 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 29 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 Daily Log :ledger: Day 1 :ledger: Day 2 :ledger: Day 3

:dove: :four_leaf_clover: Clovie’s Home Post :four_leaf_clover: :dove: :books: Natively Excited to join the challenge again and read along with everyone! :smile: Thanks @DIO-Berry for hosting this time! I’m not sure yet how often I’ll update, since the last time I did this, posting daily updates started to become a little stressful after a while. I might end up mostly just updating this home post. No strict goals for this year other than that I want to read a lot of manga, because there’s so much of it I want to read! 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 29 — Past challenges: Summer 2023

:open_book: Day 1 | 1月1日、月曜日 Read the story 黒コウモリと白コウモリ on the Tongari Books website. It was a lovely story featuring a black and a white bat and their communities with a sweet ending. The story is also available as a Tadoku Reader on the Tadoku website. Story rating: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: Home Post🏡

Home Jan 2 Another 15 min of 夜カフェ1, seems to be flowing a bit faster. I spent a lot of time this morning trying to get Anki working to my standards on my eInk tablet and I’ve come to the conclusion it’s just not responsive enough to keep my flow state. Good enough for the first 5 minutes while my eyes wake up though.

:man_walking: back to my home post :star2: 01月01日 Read: Progress: :ghost: グースバンプス 1 pg Happy day one! For this challenge, HP is my digital prose reading pick, and Goosebumps is my paperback prose reading pick. I’ll also be reading manga as I choose. I have several easy manga volumes to get through so maybe I can finish a few of those.

Home post Jan 1 Read two Christmas-related chapters today! I’d meant to get to these earlier in the holiday season, but I’ve been very busy until just a few days ago. They were still very seasonal reads though! しまなみ誰そ彼 chapter 20 スキップとローファー chapter 28 Both very sweet chapters :smiling_face:

Day 1 Home post Happy 2024 everyone! Today I woke up with a slight hangover so wasn’t expecting to read much, but luckily it went away and I was able to read episodes 36-45 (end) of Kona’s Big Adventure. I now have 183 new Satori Reader cards to work through, so I’m going to read よつばと while I whittle them down.

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lucylavelle January 2, 2024, 2:45am 74

January 1st!

Happy New Year everyone!
Today I read the second half of Chapter 3 of この美術部には問題がある!
This was the best chapter so far - and some chatter in the club suggest it starts getting better as of. Chapter 4, so I’ll find out next week

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