Main was half the week’s reading for 同じ夢, really finding this one a bit difficult, but keeping at it. Could just be not having ideal circumstances to read it in.
Finished ほろ酔い７ a day or two ago. So sweet and sappy.
Continuing Dungeon Meshi 3 but mostly messing about with note-taking stuff to try and determine how to scribble notes on the manga non-destructively (see my log).
Posting for two days having read Week 6 of the ABBC for Ruri Dragon. I thought I could do one week’s worth of pages in a day, which I had been doing for the previous weeks, but this week 6 dialogue was quite difficult. As usual, I read this week’s set of pages twice: first without pausing and looking up and the second time using the relevant ABBC thread and the accompanying vocab and grammar sheets. I probably need to allot more time than just the weekend to finish 2 weeks worth of pages every week in time for the next ABBC.
Words or phrases of interest not on the vocab list:
このまま like this
くしゃみ sneeze
遅かれ早かれ sooner or later
ところで by the way
ケンカ quarrel, dispute, argument
Grammar points that have come up multiple times throughout the weeks that I keep having to look up:
んだ｜んです｜のです explanatory, emphasis, the fact is
わ sentence-ending particle that reflects your perception or sentiment based on personal observation and/or experience
yesterday was a pixiv and granblue kind of day (even tho the valentines thing is pretty dull, it’s smth and has varied speech styles so might as well ) and today was granblue again, plus flicked through some pages of worst cos it came the other day and it’s sitting on my shelf staring at me
Welp, I didn’t read any NHK today, even though I said I saved some for today I guess it’s kinda ok, since it’s my birthday today, so I guess I can kinda consider it a day partially off At least I read one more chapter from the king’s birthday, which was about the birthday party of the king!
I enjoy seeing you liking some posts from back then it was my first manga ever! And I had found it very very difficult, couldn’t complete the reading in one sitting usually, so hang in there
Have you also found the video for it? There is a video with voice acting for the first three chapters, it helped me a lot, to understand who is talking, to know that some things written are not words but sounds, etc
Got to read a bit in the morning. I feel like I’m reading faster, though zoning out happens quite a bit and I end up reading the same sentence 5 times, so in the end it’s not that much of an improvement overall.
So yesterday I was away, so this is (hopefully the last) multiple update for this challenge. I read chapter 14 of 本好きの下剋上’s novel, and in the process figured out why I got so confused on chapter numbers (I’d been numbering them from adding +1 to my previous updates here, since the book itself doesn’t have chapter numbers, but I’d entered the wrong number in my first update for this thread, so actually all the chapter numbers were off by 2 in previous updates). So I’ll go back and fix those posts, but the page numbers in this thread and natively are at least correct.
Then today I read half of this week’s content for the IBC. This is the first full on novel novel I’m attempting in Japanese, and unlike 本好きの下剋上, I’ve got the regular edition and not the junior full furigana edition. So it’s just as well I invested in getting my ttsu + yomitan setup working, because I did a lot of lookups this week. It might be the yakuza language, or just the fact the book is 45 years old (if you read some 70s/80s English novel, the word choices are also different, after all), or the lack of furigana, but this weeks’ reading would have been a lot longer without that setup.
It does also mean the page counts for this book are going to be estimated, basically just multiplying the character count percentage by the total page number, so if you have the physical book and notice my pages-per-chapter is slightly off, that’s why.
Anyway, have 2 weeks off work, so I’ll probably try push to get 本好きの下剋上 1 finished off so I’m not juggling two novels when I go back to having regular amounts of time to spend on Japanese again.
I found a lot of new grammar points/phrases today:
ならともかく maybe (it) is possible for … but…
あまつさえ …besides, …
に他はならない it is none other than
とは I was surprised that; the fact that
をものともせずに in defiance of
曲がりなりにも somehow or other
Thank you so much for filling up the grammar sheet!! It’s been a really big help! As well as the contributions in the discussion threads! Week 6 discussion was pretty heavy too since one of the readers decided to give up at that point. Honestly was thinking about it as well, but I really wanna finish it!
And yes, I’ve been watching the voice over and I’m loving it!
This first volume sure ended on a pretty sombre note. I’m unfortunately finding Tamura’s handwriting very difficult to read because of the small size + the blurriness of my digital copy so I just skimmed the atogaki. Also, this was my first book read that hadn’t been graded yet on Natively, so it was interesting to be the first one to grade it and see it change from a question mark number to a solid number.
Forgot to post this morning. Finished the week’s read of 同じ夢.
Did some more messing about with Ms Elf 4 playing with my furigana-reading method. Think I’m into it, as long as the various components stay functional.
舞妓さんちのまかないさん chapter 18 (this week’s reading)
) and today was granblue again, plus flicked through some pages of 
I guess it’s kinda ok, since it’s my birthday today, so I guess I can kinda consider it a day partially off 
At least I read one more chapter from the king’s birthday, which was about the birthday party of the king!
2024年2月18日 
it was my first manga ever! And I had found it very very difficult, couldn’t complete the reading in one sitting usually, so hang in there 
tanoshimiiii~
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so I just skimmed the atogaki. Also, this was my first book read that hadn’t been graded yet on Natively, so it was interesting to be the first one to grade it and see it change from a question mark number to a solid number.