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02月03日 | Read: | Progress: |
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グースバンプス | 2 pgs | 40/189 pgs |
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可愛いだけじゃない式守さん | 1 chapter | 61% |
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気になってる人が男じゃなかった | week 1 | 9% |
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The Three Musketeers [eng.] | chapters 15-17 | 193/704 pgs |
I felt like I was in so many book clubs but when I counted them up to add links in my study log it was only 3. Then I was like, 3’s not that many… maybe I need to join another book club. Was excited to start 気になってる人, we’ll see if I stick to the book club pace.
Feb 3
I have a question today. Does anyone know what the onomatopoeia ザザーン means? I can’t find it in my dictionary or with a Google search. It’s appeared in ARIA quite a few times now, and seems to appear in usually scene-setting panels that are kinda zoomed out. Here are some examples:
Edit: now that I think about it, based on context, maybe it’s a light wind?
Congrats!!
Feb 3
どうぶつの森 again. Collected star shards, rescued Gullivarrr, and got the sea pig I needed for the museum.
this sorta fits with the context, a white noise, and the way it’s written kinda has the rhythm of breaking waves to me.
I’m at a real beginner level at Japanese, but I’m able to play both the 3DS and Switch versions of どうぶつのもり. I’ve spent a crazy number of hours playing in English, (like into the thousands 
) so I’ve basically memorized the game. The villager text is really difficult to translate, especially with all the colloquialisms. It is a good learning experience for me to look up all the katakana, though. I have a seriously giant game guide (over 1900 pages 
) that I’m really looking forward to using when I get further along.
Thanks for the fun fact! And thanks for an additional new vocabulary word. It just so happens I was doing that (機織り) too on my friend’s island!
Animal Crossing is great for beginners! The most difficult part for me is the cranky villagers since they use the most casual speech ever But it’s nice to be exposed to so many different speech styles.
How could they even fill 1900 pages…
I’m pretty sure they list every item in the game. I think it will be a great way to expand and reinforce vocabulary 
I expected to have issues following the challenge during January due to work and travel but it ended up being a lot worse than anticipated. I did read some days here and there but didn’t even track it and ended up completely dropping the challenge. Thankfully there’s still February left so it’s my chance to try again. I started back up yesterday:
February 3
Read some あなたも殺人犯になれる！ to try to get back into things.
Wikipedia tells me that ザザーン is a monster from Ultraman, so my guess is that it represents a bubbling sound that foreshadows a sea monster rising from the depths, like at the start of this clip:
(ザザーン is the seaweed covered one.)
I’m not going to lie, while I love the feeling of accomplishment I have getting to chapter 7 of Harry Potter 1, because I have read it before and watched the movies a few times, it’s not as exciting for me, and I am thinking of cheating on it with a book written by a Japanese author.
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Finally going to start doing this to hold myself accountable, for not reading enough (even though i supposedly managed to pass the n2)
these are my different accounts both on natively and 読書メーター
Feb 4
It is only 1 pm so might read more later, but so far I have read a chapter in the Hotel manga. I think I stumbled on my first multiple speech bubbles in a row where my understanding was very low. Good thing those particular speech bubbles weren’t necessary to understand the segment. I was a bit temped to look up a lot of things to understand more, but decided I like the easy of just keep reading. And so far not understanding that bit hasn’t been a problem.
Will probably reread this series regularly in the future so eventually I will know exactly what was being said. Future Me to the rescue!
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季節を愉しむ366日 L30?? | Feb 4 |
Seasons was about the first day of spring (yay!)
I’ll post about today’s reading tomorrow.
2月03日 & 2月04日
Home post
The weekend was spent on Week 3 of ルリドラゴン. The reactions of both adults are so funny.
Feb 4, Sun of Week 5 of Q1 2024
いちばんやさしい世界史の本 Ch.5 [154-157/258]
STEINS;GATE (VN)
Probably unlocked the path to secret ED now.
ヨーマン = Yeoman - Wikipedia. Actually also, https://yeoman.io 
ジェントリ = Gentry - Wikipedia
ピューリタン革命 = Wars of the Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia (Puritan Revolution)
クロムウェル = Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia
鉄騎隊 = Ironside (cavalry) - Wikipedia
王政復古 = Stuart Restoration - Wikipedia and similar
名誉革命 = Glorious Revolution - Wikipedia
アン女王 = Anne, Queen of Great Britain - Wikipedia
ウォルポール = Robert Walpole - Wikipedia
Home Thread // February 4th, 2024
Today, I read two more chapters from Aryn’s rescue, and I was able to translate the two chapters from yesterday as well, so yay! 
Did you fight in a dungeon ? How are they in comparison with P5R ?
So differences I’ve noticed so far:
Home Post (and Thread)
Sakura and Suzuki on Satori Reader, ep. 19 to 21.