Feb 11
- 乙嫁語り omake chapter which was a few pages of yonkomas
- BASARA chapter 1
Been wanting to read this series for a good while now, so I’m excited to get started! The first chapter was quite eventful!
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2月12日
Home post
Another chapter from my Spanish short stories for beginners and episodes 14 and 15 of Sakura and Suzuki on Satorireader
New words
- 遠距離恋愛 「えんきょりれんあい」long distance relationship
- 見送る 「みおくる」to see someone off
After 5 years, I’m finally learning words relevant to my situation
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| 02月11日 | Read: | Progress: | |
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ブルーロック Episode 凪１ | 49 pages | Complete |
Finished up Bluelock Episode Nagi Vol 1 last night, which brings my total for the year up to 3 manga completed. Will take a couple of days to go back through it and add some new words to Anki, and also catch back up to the ABBC.
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8 Feb - 11 Feb
| Title | Pages read | Progress | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 進撃の巨人 vol.5 | 71-122 | 122/192 | reading |
| ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 vol. 5 | 153-180 | 180/256 | reading |
I had a huge progress with Harry Potter. So there is hope that I’ll finish it in February.
On an unrelated note, I’m going to have a one-month conversation-oriented intensive course of Japanese in September/October in Tokyo. I had an orientation meeting with the school on Friday, and preliminarily I was put in an intermediate group which is about N3 (I passed it in December), rather that in advanced/N2 (I’m studying for it right now). This placement sounds fair considering JLPT is input-only. But it made me realize how poor my conversation skills are. I feel like I need to come up with a plan to improve my output to be able to enter an advanced group. May be next time I need to join a writing challenge instead of a reading challenge 
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I haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been reading almost daily!
Hopefully no one has put this link up yet but I missed so many replies 
So if this is a repeat, my apologies. I want to share this N4 article about the difference of shrines and temples in Japan, in case anyone is interested.
Enjoy 
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Feb 12
虐殺器官 0% - 2%
I took a break for a few days because I just moved to a different city! Gonna take reading slow for now — I could probably read アフターダーク at the same time but I’ll just pick it up again if I feel like it.
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12th feb
another ouran chapter done! and it threw a bunch of henry v (the shakespeare play) at me 
ah well, i got there (ish). randomiser intially gave me エデンの檻 but i only managed about 40 pages of that before abandoning it, it’s way more ecchi than i’m comfortable with (and is also showing its age a bit). back to randomiser and it gave me No. 6, which i’ve got three volumes of. first chapter was okay (but long), little technical in places but doable. more pages in the bakumatsu book
today’s nhk article was this one, plus the entries on さ (particle) and さえ in aDoIJG
words that stood out
桜蘭：
手玉 - beanbag (little ones, for throwing)
詩神 - the Muses
No. 6：
局部麻酔 - local anaesthetic
防波堤 - breakwater
精子 - semen. whatever context you’re imagining, can (almost) guarantee it wasn’t that
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Feb. 11
Read a chapter of チョコっとちょこちゃん。
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Are you doing any conversation lessons at the moment? I used italki for a month of weekly lessons and found a massive improvement. I think I’d still be N3 level speaking wise, having passed that a year ago, but it made a huge difference when I then travelled to Japan last month.
Have you moved for study?
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I moved to Melbourne for uni
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Home Thread // February 12th, 2024
| Name | Progress | State | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aryn’s wonderful world | 6/6 chapters (100%) |  Finished |
12th Feb, 2024 |
| Aryn’s rescue | 24/24 chapters (100%) | Finished |
9th Feb, 2024 |
Today, I read the last two chapters of Aryn’s wonderful world, which means I finished my second story ever in Japanese 
Even though it was only short, compared to the other stories, and a story for children, I still feel like partying! I liked it a lot and found it very cute, and the spell that Aryn’s casted on Darius the green made me laugh lol
In addition to this, I also read three NHK Easy Articles: This, this and this. Appearently, the Earthquake that occured in the beginning of the year produced seven times as much trash as there usually is produced in one year in the Ishikawa prefecture…
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February 12
キンショキショキ 
Chapters: 4/4
That’s the dancing monkey story complete! It was a bit random really.
The next story looks pretty short too.
Word the Monkey Found
氷砂糖「こおりざとう」ー Rock (confectionary); sugar sweets/candy; crystallized sugar; sugar crystals
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Late to the party, but I’ve been trying to get in at least a little bit every day, even if it’s just Twitter or Easy News. After the flurry of activity that was the holidays, it’s time to slow down and get back to manga and longer texts.
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(For easy extension)
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Feb 12, Mon of Week 7 of Q1 2024
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いちばんやさしい世界史の本 start Ch.7 [196-199/258]
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NARUTO Vol.18 Ch.157 - Vol.19 Ch.164
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徒花異譚
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Christmas Tina
I don’t understand Chinese.
- DIJG : ～の上では, ～のは Tのことだ, ～ぬ
Words of the day
- 供する = to offer, can be either of 提供 and 供える kind
- 願い下げ = rejecting an offer
- 有り金 = ready cash; cash in hand
- 成り金 = new rich; newly rich people. Also written 成金 (earlier in IME).
- 辛くも = barely; narrowly
- 紙魚
which is actually somewhat 染み (and somewhat 
) - 茅葺き and 藁葺き. The second Kanji is 口 + 茸, though probably more like 戸口, to be more related to houses.
- 墨汁 = writing ink. First Kanji is 墨.
Book highlights
タンジマート = Tanzimat - Wikipedia, a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire
ミドハト憲法 = Constitution of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia (Constitution of Midhat Pasha - Wikipedia)
トルコマンチャーイ条約 = Treaty of Turkmenchay - Wikipedia
プラッシーの戦い = Battle of Plassey - Wikipedia
マイソール王国 = Kingdom of Mysore - Wikipedia
マラーター同盟 = Maratha Confederacy, see Maratha Empire - Wikipedia
シパーヒーの反乱 = Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia (Rebellion of Sepoy - Wikipedia [which is related to sipahi])
インド帝国 = British Raj - Wikipedia (Indian Empire)
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I agree with your advice 100%! I did the same when I had visited Japan last year, it really helped a lot.
Now I have weekly lessons on Italki for quite a while. And from time to time I visit various events to practice Japanese. But I think my learning curve is on a plateau stage conversation-wise.
I can communicate, but I have some major weaknesses for ages. E.g. I can read 漢語, but I sometimes struggle to understand it when I hear it. In every day conversations I have, it is not a problem, I can always ask the meaning of a word. And I still struggle with くれる・あげる・もらう and various difficult conjugation forms like passive or causative.
So I need to request more targeted teaching from my tutor
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February 9
Played 逆転裁判 for about an hour. Feels good to be able to play this relatively comfortably. I’m sure it’ll get more difficult once some weirder characters appear but it should be fun.
February 10
Read some あなたも殺人犯になれる！
February 11
Finished reading chapter 12 of あなたも殺人犯になれる！
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Home post and thread
Sakura and Suzuki on Satori Reader, ep. 28 and 29.
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Feb 11th
A chapter of Shadows House today.
Feb 12th
A chapter of Shadows House again today!
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I read two level one stories.
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Home post // Feb 12
・サイレント・ウイッチ VII (4% → 6%)
Smol read. Don’t have time for more, I have early errand tomorrow.
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