February 7
お月様の唄 
Progress: page 26/35
The prince organises a moonlit festival to try and lure forest spirits out since they’ve disappeared for the past few days.
守役「もりやく」ー Guardian; nurse; nanny
頓着「とんちゃく」ー Being concerned about / mindful of
心地「ここち」ー Feeling; sensation; mood
Feb 7, Wed of Week 6 of Q1 2024
いちばんやさしい世界史の本 Ch.5 end [170-174/258]
正欲 (1-3%)
A little depressing, but I don’t really hate it.
Seeing sprites translating and flipping is funny. How 2D.
Alternate route has Ch.11, though; so pause for now.
アミアンの和訳 = Treaty of Amiens - Wikipedia
ナポレオン法典 = Napoleonic Code - Wikipedia
トラファルガーの海戦 = Battle of Trafalgar - Wikipedia. IME suggests トラファルガー・ロー 
ネルソン伯爵 = Earl Nelson - Wikipedia
アウステルリッツの戦い = Battle of Austerlitz - Wikipedia
ティルジットの和約 = Treaties of Tilsit - Wikipedia
大陸封鎖令 = Berlin Decree - Wikipedia (ベルリン勅命)
ライプチヒの戦い = Battle of Leipzig - Wikipedia
ワーテルローの戦い = Battle of Waterloo - Wikipedia
「英雄」 = Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) - Wikipedia, formerly dedicated to 「ボナパルト」
Home Thread // February 7th, 2024
I managed to read the NHK Easy Article that I planned to. Appearently, it was an Austrian that introduced skiing to Japan, which is quite funny, as I’m from Austria myself hehe
February 6
Read あなたも殺人犯になれる！ chapter 9 and played 逆転裁判 for 20 min. I’m having fun with this, too bad I don’t have more time to read.
2月7日水曜日
かえるくん、東京を救う (Super Frog saves Tokyo), short story by Haruki Murakami, 3 pages.
Waw, some passages were very challenging and when the sentences are too long, I end up mixing up everything 
Today I tried to read first what is at the end of the sentence, beginning with the verb, then going from it to the rest, and it worked quite well^^
I’ve read 13 pages on 36 so far, and I want to know how it ends !!!
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2024年2月7日
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Title | Read today | Currently at | Notes |
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Fujiki | 2 episodes | 3/41 | — |
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阪急電車 | 1% | 62% | 10 new words |
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舞妓さんちのまかないさん | 1 chapter | 115/261 | — |
Not much reading done today but I have a good excuse, went out to eat a delicious ramen 
Home post // Feb 7
・サイレント・ウイッチ VI (54% → 57%)
Today was busier than expected, had friends over at my place. Tomorrow will probably be more of a reading day, there’s a train ride in my schedule 
| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-07 |  老女的少女ひなたちゃん3 |
 Manga |
 Chapter 19-25.5 178 pages |
 1h25m |
Well I wanted to put something on the tracker for this week as complete, so I read all of volume 3 of Hinata-chan today. (And that’s another Natively bingo to tick off). From a story perspective, it’s clear that we’re meant to think Sakuya thinks Sadao murdered her at this point, buuut I don’t think Sadao is Nagisa, and I’m also not 100% sure she was literally murdered instead of metaphorically. But we’ll see where the story goes.
I was partway into chapter 25.5 and I hade to look up a few words, and it suddenly clicked to me that there had been no furigana in like ten pages. “Wait, weren’t they adding furigana for stuff like 言う and 大丈夫 until now?”, I thought, before having a moment of worry given I’d nominated volume 1 of this for the ABBC and was pretty sure it had furigana. But a quick check back at the rest of volume 3 and of volume 1 reveals this is a Chapter 25.5 only thing, I guess they just didn’t bother for the long extra chapter for whatever reason. Even the short bonus chapter got furigana, so I guess 25.5 was added for this edition? I guess it makes sense, 25 ends on a cliffhanger, so I’m guessing 25.5 is out of sequence too. Or possibly imagined by Sadao.
Anyway, depending on how tomorrow goes, there’s a good chance my next update won’t be until next Tuesday, so don’t think I’ve given up on the challenges if you don’t hear from me for a few days.
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I got distracted again, but I’ll argue that it was an investment for the future.
Amazing 
Do you live in Japan?
7 Feb | Home
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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ダンジョン飯２ | manga | 30 | 81% → 100% (complete) |
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不思議駄菓子屋1 | book | 24 | 17% - no change |
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また、同じ夢を見ていた | book | 25 | 10% - no change |
I read seven level one stories and two level two stories.
２月 ７日 
| Book | Natively | Progress | Type | |
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美知子の星空 | L 19 | 60% → 66% | Reader |
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マグメル新海水族館 | L 24 | 27% → 42% | Manga |
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新にほんご 500問 N2 | L 33 | 8% → 12% | Text |
Adding the textbook I’ve been hacking away at this week so I can feel accomplished by the completion percentage even if my brain hurts sometimes 
If you’ve been dying to know how Michiko is doing, she seems to have found a better man while working at the sugarcane farm lmao now I just need a Sousuke vs. Hiroshi standoff (for some razzle dazzle)
If you remember my Atelier obsession, マグメル similarly hosts some really fun non-panel pages and I also love when the story is interspersed with facts about undersea creatures:
See you next time!
OMG that looks so good! 
My cold’s been kicking my ass, so I can’t remember when I last updated .
Feb. 6
Worked partway through ch 3 of みんなの日本語 Vol. 2.
Feb. 7
Read one level 2 graded reader on Tadoku about Hokkaido. I understood it pretty well! I’ve somehow had more than one Japanese teacher from Hokkaido, so it’s my favourite region of Japan. (I have never been to Japan).
Other than that, I finished 13 Sentinels. The text was in English, but I’d set the voiceover to Japanese so it was fun to realize how much my understanding increased as I learned new words.
8th feb
okay so this is still true but i was definitely asking to be hit with a very heavy look-up chapter wasn’t i 
ah well, i blame kyouya. still, vol 10 complete! started the next manga the randomiser gave me, シンデレラは探さない which seems to be a light slice of life romance kind of thing. only read a chapter of that, but did read more of the bakumatsu book to compensate. about halfway through that now! (update: also translated a page)
today’s nhk articles were this one and this one(not gonna pretend i fully understood the stocks one, but i read it), and the entries on 例の and relative clause in aDoIJG
桜蘭：
めんそーれ - okinawan for いらっしゃい
蛋白質 - protein. usually in katakana but was it in ouran? was it hell
パン食い競走 - game in which a dangling piece of bread is grabbed in the mouth and raced to the finish line (in school sports festivals)
シンデレラ：
利便 - convenient. love when they flip the kanji and meaning is similar but different
Feb 8, Thu of Week 6 of Q1 2024
Much longer than expected. (Around 5 hours perhaps.) Lesson learnt, don’t think the end is near.
Also, 1 CG still missing.
. Far from 3, but rather 5 in context, though.
. A movie genre.ウィーン会議 = Congress of Vienna - Wikipedia
メッテルニヒ = Klemens von Metternich - Wikipedia
神聖同盟 = Holy Alliance - Wikipedia
四国同盟 = Quadruple Alliance (1815) - Wikipedia
「会議は躍る」 = Der Kongreß tanzt - Wikipedia (The Congress Dances)
七月革命 = July Revolution - Wikipedia
オルレアン家 = House of Orléans - Wikipedia
ルイ・フィリップ = Louis Philippe I - Wikipedia
ヴィドック = Eugène François Vidocq - Wikipedia
「赤と黒」 = The Red and the Black - Wikipedia (Le Rouge et le Noir)
二月革命 = French Revolution of 1848 - Wikipedia (February Revolution)
三月革命 = March Revolution. See German revolutions of 1848–1849 - Wikipedia.
ギゾー = François Guizot - Wikipedia
ルイ・ナポレオン = Napoleon III - Wikipedia, that is, ナポレオン3世.
「共産党宣言」 = The Communist Manifesto - Wikipedia
| Title | Pages read | Progress | Status |
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| ふらいんぐうぃっち vol. 8 | 64-96 | 96/176 | reading |
| ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 vol. 5 | 142-153 | 153/256 | reading |
The Quidditch chapter was pretty fun and easy to read. Flying Witch was, on opposite, harder than usual, with so much text.
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