1月7日
Today I read the next tadoku book on my list ありますか？
This one made me very hungry! All the pictures of the food looked so good! It helped me understand あります like how どうぞどうも helped me understand the phrases that was named after.
The pictures also helped me understand some words I was reading the hiragana for without having to look anything up, like いか for squid.
Tomorrow I’ll read かまきり
みんあおやすみ！
１月７日
I had other stuff to do today, so I only read half of Unit 6 in my grammar textbook and a short fancomic. I watched about 5 minutes of a Japanese let’s play I started earlier in the week, but stopped because I couldn’t focus.
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Instead of an everyday update, I’ll just be doing a weekly one instead! 
Progress: Episode 11 to episode 16 of 聞き耳のラジオ and finished the first from the Spanish short stories for beginners Volume 2 titled “El Castillo”.
The last week I read 聞き耳のラジオ on Satorireader every day and two days of Spanish beginner stories. The Japanese reading is slightly more challenging than the Spanish reading. But I’m super thankful for Satorireader for making it so easy to just hover over words I don’t know. Spanish is fairly easy except for a few words I’m not familiar with. The only thing is since I’m reading a PDF version I can’t use the automatic look up using my e-reader.
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| Book | Natively | Progress | Notes | |
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とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Lv 26 | 26% → 36% |
Finished the first chapter! I’m starting to realize that weekends don’t provide any more reading time than an average weekday for me, unfortunately 
Except for Thursdays! So now I can’t wait for Thursday evening to settle in with a stack of books and read for hours ^–^
See you tomorrow! (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ
Can you put the pics in a details tag? I know it’s not a spoiler but I like to go in a manga without having seen anything of it beforehand 
Jan 8th
Today is the weekly page for the daily Stoic journal I’m using. Last week was about what we can control and what we can’t, and this week… I’ve already forgotten. 
I guess I’ll look over the page again later since I’m supposed to ruminate on it throughout the week. 
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It’s been a pretty stressful and sleep deprived few days, but back home now.
On my way back, I dipped into a few half-priced books just to look for stuff. Most of it was kinda normal things you’d expect, nothing particularly interesting, but I did pick up this full set of the 70s space battleship yamato manga. Idk why you’d ever get rid of this, but people make choices sometimes, and I know a good opportunity when I see one 
Read:
you’re zooming!
You’re welcome I love those kinds of stories!
And while you didn’t enjoy it, would you mind sharing the link to the sushi story please? Like @danyramdas this sounds like something I might be interested in reading
I explained everything in this message 
Nice, thank you! I didn’t see it before 
8th jan
read not one but two ouran chapters today! they were basically one big chapter and splitting it between today and tomorrow felt weird. had to take a break in between but i did it! didn’t really read much else tho
today’s nhk article was this one, did another granblue chapter (the new year’s stuff is finally over, so it doesn’t take as long), and the entries on にほかならない and に限って in aDoIJG
桜蘭：
おてまみ - so apparently this is a version of 手紙 that was popular in the 80s. ig it was there for comedic purposes?
あらば - literary form of あれば
やんごとない - august, exalted, noble (birth)
御簾 - bamboo blind
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%)
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
Looks like the images aren’t appearing anymore by the way.
1月8日月曜日
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Title | Source | Notes |
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ホリミヤ vol. 1 | manga | 3 pages |
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LOVE&GAME | Idolish7, the game (I think) | Translated 1 p. |
The song I’m tranlating is this one (of course I don’t have the translation with me when I work on it )
It features one of my favorite seiyuu (japanese voice actor), KENN 
| 01月08日 | Read: | Progress: | |
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小さな森の狼ちゃん Vol 1 | 18 pages | 066/175 |
Not as much as I would have liked today as work was busy and I felt a bit under the weather, but managed half a chapter of 狼ちゃん and also flicked through a few pages of 文豪 to pick out some new words for Anki.
篤志家 とくしか philanthropist
点呼 てんこ role-call
喇叭 喇叭 horn/trumpet/bugle
変身 へんしん shapeshifting
If I perk up a little I’m going to give the first chaper of 壁の穴 a go, over on Satori Reader later on tonight.
AHH thank you 
so embarrassing dsklgjdflkjg
January 8th!
Chapter 150 of Shadows House today.
With only 2 weeks left before finishing this volume (14), and with only one more currently published, I’m starting to think about reaching the “end” and needing to wait for new volumes to be published. 
No need to worry about that just yet, since volume 16 is due for release on Feb 19th - but its still on my mind!
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Today was a very busy day, I only read for 5min before bed because of this challenge.
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