February 6
お月様の唄 
Progress: page 18/35
The forest spirits tell the prince of upcoming floods and droughts so he may help save and prepare the kingdom.
口止め「くちどめ」ー Being forbidden to mention [something] to others; ordering someone to keep quiet [about something]; gagging; hushing up
溜息「ためいき」ー Sigh
Feb 6
More history manga. Finished the first chapter which covers time until yayoi. Fairly simple language. Would need some look ups to get everything super well, but I don’t expect to remember the details of Paleolithic period in Japan anyway so not sure I am missing much. Will definitely look up stuff for later time periods.
I am liking it so far. The Kofun portion made a lot of the info interesting by connecting it to a made up family and village. And the intro pages suggest this is a format that will continue. Although I think they will use actual historical people too.
2月5日月曜日
かえるくん、東京を救う, Super Frog saves Tokyo, short story by Murakami Haruki, 1 difficult page 
2月6日火曜日
Sakura and Suzuki on Satori Reader, ep. 22 to 27.
This series is really cute and fun, even if there’s no big twists.
that looks correct to me! 引, but the strokes are not lined up very well. (it also makes sense in that line, i think, if it’s the sort of scenario i’m imagining)
aaaaaaaaaaaa I still do this sometimes too 
so glad to hear you enjoyed the Hotel Matsuepurna (sp??). I started reading it in the Harta magazines when those came up almost for free. So far I really liked it, but I haven’t prioritised it, so maybe I’ll get that out again!
Feb 6, Tue of Week 6 of Q1 2024
いちばんやさしい世界史の本 Ch.5 [162-169/258]
STEINS;GATE (VN) Ch.10
ジョン・ケイ = John Kay (flying shuttle) - Wikipedia / John Kay (spinning frame) - Wikipedia. Inventors only 30 years apart.
ルーベンス = Peter Paul Rubens - Wikipedia
ベラスケス = Diego Velázquez - Wikipedia
レンブラント = Rembrandt - Wikipedia
ロココ様式 = Rococo - Wikipedia, Late Baroque. I have no idea about this one.
サンスーシ宮殿 = Sanssouci - Wikipedia 
ラヴォアジエ = Antoine Lavoisier - Wikipedia. The book uses ラヴォワジエ.
ジェンナー = Edward Jenner - Wikipedia, creator of world’s first vaccine, smallpox vaccine
デカルト = René Descartes - Wikipedia. Just the pronunciation.
グロティウス = Hugo Grotius - Wikipedia
ホッブズ = Thomas Hobbes - Wikipedia
モンテスキュー = Montesquieu - Wikipedia
ヴォルテール = Voltaire - Wikipedia
アントニオ・サリエリ = Antonio Salieri - Wikipedia
球戯場の誓い = Tennis Court Oath - Wikipedia (テニスコートの誓い)
革命暦 = French Republican calendar - Wikipedia (French Revolutionary calendar) 
. Looks interesting, but it’s no more.
ネッケル = Jacques Necker - Wikipedia
ミラボー = Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau - Wikipedia
ラ・ファイエット = Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - Wikipedia
ジャコバン派 = Jacobins - Wikipedia (Jacobin club)
ロベスピエール = Maximilien Robespierre - Wikipedia
I prepare both meanings in advance in my mind, and whatever reading to fit the meaning. But of course I might fail a contextless SRS.
I read seventeen level one stories.
2月5-6日 | Home post
Yesterday I was distracted by a new toy and did not read much – I bought a fairly cheap Android tablet to use for reading, and I spent some time configuring Kiwi Browser and Yomitan. Today, I actually used the tablet for its intended purpose instead of just playing with the settings (I was trying to configure Yomitan to work with pen input) and finished chapter 2.
Home Thread // February 6th, 2024
Today, I read two more chapters from Aryn’s rescue, again 
I plan to do an NHK Easy article tomorrow, perhaps the one that trunklayer posted in the TIL thread? 
| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
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| 2024-02-06 | 本好きの下剋上第一部１ |
 Jr Novel |
 Chapter 12 16 pages |
 50m |
So it turns out spending an hour on a train with barely working internet is great for focus. Who knew?
Also I finished my last real piece of work in my current job today and I don’t start my new one until March, so I may have more time for Japanese once I’m back from my trip this weekend…
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2024年2月6日
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Title | Read today | Currently at | Notes |
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Dialogs: Train Station | 2 episodes | Finished | — |
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阪急電車 | 1% | 61% | 15 new words |
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舞妓さんちのまかないさん | 1 chapter | 111/261 | — |
Waw super cool that you got it working 
Home post // Feb 6 
・サイレント・ウイッチ VI (50% → 54%)
Snail pace continues. I’ll tell myself Rome wasn’t built in a day. At least I’m keeping my streak/habit going.
Big relate! 
Feb 6
Second reading from Quartet chapter 6.
Page 14 15 16 of 同じ夢. Thanks to my sick brain I probably won’t catch up with the book club this week but I’m gonna get as close as possible.
Started playing Spiritfarer in Japanese, never realized how much those spirits like to talk… Gwen I have to take your popcorn out of the oven before it burns please stfu.
Feb 4th!
Today I read a chapter of 可愛いだけじゃない式守さん.
Afterwards I started reading 気になってる人が男じゃなかった, I’ve only read the first 18 pages since that was the BBC assignment for this week, but it seems fun so far.
Feb 5th!
Chapter 157 of Shadows House today.
Feb 6th!
Chapter 158 of Shadows House today - I want to keep reading, but I need to be patient since not much more has been published yet!
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Book | Pages |
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季節を愉しむ366日 L30?? | Feb 7 |
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スーパーの裏でヤニ吸うふたり 3 | L25 | 145 - 160 |
Seasons was about 淡雪 which is the snow that melts easily, or the snow much of Japan got on Monday lol
Smoking was great! It feels almost seasonal. It’d’ve been more seasonal if I read on time with the club lol. I’ve got a thought or two to post in the club thread.
6 Feb | Home
| Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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 ダンジョン飯２ |
manga | 30 | 59/195 (53 → 81%) |
 不思議駄菓子屋1 |
book | 24 | 17% - no change |
 また、同じ夢を見ていた |
book | 25 | 10% - no change |
3/2 12 pages 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (finished week 1), 6 pages ふしぎ駄菓子屋(finished week 2), aDoIG あまり
4/2 3 pages ふしぎ駄菓子屋 (finished week 3), 4 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた, 10 pages おじさまと猫, aDoIG ば〜ほど
5/2 3 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた, 19 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (read weeks 7+8)
6/2 4 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた (finished week 1), 7 pages Spy Family, aDoIG ばからかand べきだ
Overall a good few days. I’m up to date with quite a few clubs and catching up with others. I think I’ll finish all my manga on time this week, leaving また,同じ夢 and the dictionary to work on. Plus 本好き LN volume 2, which I’ve had no time for with the various clubs.
I have a horrible feeling there’s another club starting soon which I’m planning to join, and can’t even remember which one.
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02月06日 | Read: | Progress: |
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ふしぎ駄菓子屋 | 2 pgs | 27/148 pgs |
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The Three Musketeers [eng.] | chapters 18-19 | 209/704 pgs |
Two pages with no lookups of fushigi sweet shop. Actually understood the gist and felt really good since there was a lot of vocab repeated from earlier in the story. I’ll go back over it with lookups later though.
Feb 6
7th feb
ouran chap 45 down, just one more left in the volume! i don’t know if it’s just this arc but i feel like i’ve doing wayyyy fewer look-ups than i used to in the earlier volumes. on the other hand, 獣の奏者 threw a bunch of bee-keeping terminology at me so ig it balances out 
finished that now, interested in reading more! it’s definitely aimed at a teenage-YA audience (aka not me) but the world-building is interesting and clearly has a lot of thought put into it. might check out the original books too to see the differences (tho i’m betting those’ll be less accessible). another ten pages or so of the bakumatsu book (will probably translate one later)
today’s nhk articles were this one and this one, plus the entries on っぽい and 来in aDoIJG
桜蘭：
隠密 - clandestine, stealthy, or (in this case) spy (for a daimyo, shougun etc.)
獣：
分封 - swarming, hiving off
王台 - queen/royal cell of a bee hive
落っことす - to drop, to lose, to fall. 落とす but 関東弁.
thanks! 
i’m mostly used to her handwriting by now but sometimes she’ll throw me a curveball
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