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

Japanese Language Reading
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１月１日２０２４年

I don’t know how to format anything~~ (yet). So pardon the ugliness please.

It’s my last day of time off before I return to work tomorrow, so I focused on sampling some of the resources I gathered from recommendations in other threads. I’m not new to Japanese, but I’ve never recognized enough katakana or kanji to actually read anything before.

(Wow I just figured out how to italicize. Yay me )

My goal, at least for the first while, is to focus on smoothly reading (sounding out?) what’s written. Once I get more solid on that, I’ll work on parsing the sentences for meaning. How soon that happens will depend on how fast my actual ability to recognize the characters improves.

So for today, I read:
NHK News Easy: 2 articles

The first one I understood not at all. Something about a design and money. Lots of money.

The second one I understood enough to know that Japan is gonna have a lot of bears this year from November to April, especially in the Hokkaido and Tohoku areas. Unless I understood that completely wrong. There was a lot more about bears, but I didn’t understand those bits.

Tadoku Books: 3
I’m starting at level 0, so I picked 3 titles from the free section since they’re fairly short.

チワワの花すけおはなみ: A cute chihuahua goes flower viewing with its owner. It was cute. I understood maybe 50%?

2匹のカエル: A cute story about two frogs. I understood this one pretty well once I figured out that カエル meant :frog: and 匹 is a counter for said frogs. I know I said comprehension isn’t my goal but I was so pleased :blush:

あっ、まるい: a dog can’t find its ball and checks every circle to find it. I didn’t understand most of the words, but the illustrations made it easy to understand.

I also finished the second half of unit 4 in my grammar textbook, which I’m counting because it has sections that I have to read. Starting in unit 5, it’ll drop the romaji except for unknown kanji so it’ll extra count.

Also, I learned how to link things before the end of this post. Wooooo!

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Hii and welcome! I also read the exact same NHK News and Tadoku books today haha! For me I thought the money one was about the design on some of the dollar bills will change, and the bear one was about how there have been lots of bear attacks(?) this past year (2023)?? I have no idea tbh haha

It will be fun to see your progression :tada:

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Hahahaha three cheers for both choosing the first ones on the page? :joy: That’s funny though.

Oh it could be attacks. I don’t know the word for that yet. But at least we both picked up on it being about bears. :rofl:

Same!

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ホーム

1日1月２０２４年

今日はニュースがわかるの1頁を読みました。:joy:
めっちゃ難しい読解がありましたので、1時間半にかかりました。 :crazy_face:
わにかにの28レベル以上だけ言葉がありましたから、次々辞書でチェックしました。それにも、将棋のトピックについて全然分からなくて大変です。
でも、読めば読むほど早く読めるようになると思います。明日も頑張ります！

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:bookmark: Home post // Jan 1 :bamboo: :snowman_with_snow: :evergreen_tree:

・ 夏のレプリカ Replaceable Summer (15% → 20%)

I’m reading a summer book. It’s the seventh book in the Saikawa & Moe series by MORI Hiroshi. What happens in the book? Seems like the main characters are sitting out. New main now. Feels kinda like going on a side quest, hahaha. :crabigator: It’s always a challenge to remember everyone’s name - furigana only once and never again. Very different from reading LNs where all the characters’ names are all katakana. At least marking stuff in ebook makes for quick lookups.

Edit: oh gosh, the dates in Jan-Mar lined up make rectangle box, I love it! #tetris

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:snowflake: :books: Frootlooper Winter 2024 Home Post :books: :snowflake:

I don’t have any specific goals other than read every day. I’ll probably start off with my simpler reads since I’ve been rather burnt out recently. I’m hoping the coziness of winter will help me get in the mood.

Learn Natively

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Previous Challenges:
Spring 2023 :white_check_mark:
Summer 2023 :white_check_mark:
Fall 2023 :white_check_mark:

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danyramdas Home Post

I’m trying to improve and form habits so that is why I am here as well.
Hopefully one day I can read Naruto in Japanese. Speaking about goals!

RESOURCES:

I am an absolute beginner, so for consistency sake and ease of use I am sticking with 3 resources and that is JapanesePod101 and beginner bookclub and bunpro stories for N5

danyramdas CALENDAR

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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.

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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.

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: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:).

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Daily Log

:ledger: Day 1
:ledger: Day 2
:ledger: Day 3

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: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!

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Past challenges:
Summer 2023

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: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🏡

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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 :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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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.
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: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.

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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:

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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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Isn’t that great motivation though? Just think of how great it will be when you won’t have to look up those words anymore

はい、そうです

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1月1日 & 1月2日

聞き耳ラジオ、第十 一話＆第十二話

Got so excited to encounter a cat in episode 12…
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But the interaction was anti-climactic as I should have expected. I’m always more excited to see cats than they are excited to see me :joy_cat:

New vocab and phrases learned today
  • ということ - that is to say
  • 電源「でんげん」- source of electricity
  • を通して「をとおして」- through X
    – そのニュースを先生を通して聞いた
    – alt. 先生を通してそのニュースを聞いた
  • 水飲み場 「みずのみば」- water fountain or drinking fountain
  • あたし - slang for 私, first person pronoun used mostly by women
  • 毛づくろい - grooming oneself
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It really depends on the day. I don’t want to push myself daily, write down every second word and spend hours on it. :slight_smile: Happily, i have other items to switch between, so some days I’ll be able to read just for joy, when i understand most of things that are written.

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