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葬送のフリーレン 3 | 5 pages | 37% |
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レンタルおにいちゃん (2) | Ch 6 | 20% |
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ぼっち・ざ・ろっく | 1.5 pages | 11% |
Had a lot less Frieren pages left in the chapter than I realised, so I also started the second レンタルおにいちゃん.
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23rd november 
some chapters of an average BL on cmoa (which i won’t link cos it was 18+) and some more men at arms. there’s no chapters, but there’s fairly frequent breaks between sections so it’s not really an issue.
| emoji | book | pages read |
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3月のライオン vol 9 | 67-x |
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lost judgment | x |
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容疑者Xの検診 | 207-x |
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men at arms | 75-107 |
today’s nhk article was x plus the entries on x and x in aDoAJG
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Home post // November 23 
・本好きの下剋上 31 || 15.94% → 38.36% || Characters read: 45k || Progress: 76936 / 200k ||
Got to read a bit before work. My day has otherwise been stressful (busy at work, customers being weird, losing my wallet, hangry af, luckily found wallet again, but I was so annoyed at that point). Didn’t spend as much time reading as I could have.
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November 18th!
2 pages of the Orange Light novel, and a chapter of 葬送のフリーレン today
November 19th!
A chapter of とんがり帽子のアトリエ
November 20th!
10 pages of 鋼の錬金術師
November 21st!
17 pages of 鋼の錬金術師 (finishing the chapter I started yesterday)
November 22nd!
A chapter of 鋼の錬金術師
November 23rd!
Finishing up 鋼の錬金術師 volume 3 by reading the 外伝 and おまけ
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11月24日(日)
NHK NEWS WEB EASY (2 articles)
SR 恋人(14 episodes)
ことわざ絵本
Got caught up in 恋人 & read right up until the end.
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Regrettably here to report i have broken my reading streak, just too busy (in my defence i am in japan rn so I’m getting overloaded as is). I’m going to rest for a bit and start again when I’m ready
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Haven’t been reading as much Yotsuba as I would like. I’ve been more focused on burning through my backlog of reviews - good news: I have burned many of the items that were waiting for me upon my return here.
Most of the stuff I’ve been reading are short exercises on Busuu (app), Duolingo Japanese stories, and doing the English course for Japanese learners on Duolingo too. Not a lot, I know. But as I said, much of my focus rn was getting through that backlog.
I also learned that Pokemon Scarlet/Violet has furigana! so I bought Scarlet and started it today. The frustrating thing is that I can almost always recognize half of the kanji in a word I don’t know (but still can’t decipher the word), which in a turn of events, has renewed my enthusiasm for getting through WK again. The game has been fun, and despite the frustration that I face against myself for not doing WK faster (lol), coming across those unfamiliar words enough times over and over has really hammered in vocabulary unexpectedly fast.
Someone once said that reading was the original SRS, and atp I’m convinced it is. 
Side note: I learned English with Pokemon Silver so maybe this is the way…
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November 24th - Home post
I wanted to try something new today so I started a new VN - Vampire’s Melody. It looks cute so far! For some reason it doesn’t work well with my texthooking tools, but that just means that I have to spend more time reading and decoding kanji. Wich should be a good thing, I guess!
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11月22日 (金)
(2000-w) 公园里发生了什么 (22-29/29) – probably a good deal of misreading, though- 薬屋のひとりごと Vol.2 (26-30%)
- 空の軌跡
– end Ch.1 in 18 hours
11月23日 (土)
- 薬屋のひとりごと Vol.2 (30-34%)
- 空の軌跡
11月24日 (日)
- 妊娠カレンダー (47-53%)
- 薬屋のひとりごと Vol.2 (34-38%)
- 空の軌跡 – finally caught up with the club
- Christmas Tina
I have done Christmas Tina Ch.1 in JP a while ago, and there was a club in Natively Forum. (I was bothered by the font. Maybe within allowed range, but I don’t practically see Chinese-like anywhere else.) But, now in simplified Chinese. Still mostly JP voiced so far. Also, I can generally read Chinese, but not having an even “close enough” pronunciation – so, fierce look up (with a finger and smartphone app).
Everything’s gonna alright if I can calm down and not rush,… and rest enough
SRS is too full to be added to, though.
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| Date | Name | Type | Progress | Time |
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| 2024-11-24 | 本好きの下剋上第一部４ |
 Jr Novel |
 SS1 + SS2 80 → 100% 36 Pages |
 1h24m |
Today I read the two side story chapters (and two manga pages) and finished out volume 4 of the 本好き junior novel! Which also means that’s my fifth novel finished of my five novel goal for the year so achievement get! This one wasn’t actually any faster than the last one, it’s like 5% longer and took 5% more time, but it felt like from about halfway it was at least going easier, if not faster. At least in 13 days it’s my fastest in calendar time 
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Made a push on Bocchi to finish the chapter, and the end of side quest week 1 is in sight.
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24th november
some stuff on pixiv and more men at arms. makes me laugh out loud fairly often, it’s a nice feeling
| emoji | book | pages read |
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3月のライオン vol 9 | 67-x |
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lost judgment | x |
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容疑者Xの検診 | 207-x |
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men at arms | 107-156 |
today’s nhk article was x plus the entries on x and x in aDoAJG
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Home post // November 24
・本好きの下剋上 31 || 38.36% → 76.43% || Characters read: 76.4k || Progress: 153288 / 200k ||
I woke up early and did a ton of reading 
It was a lot of fun. Just 3 chapters left (they’re extra long). The epilogue started at 60% this time, usually it’s around 80-90%. So many side stories at the end and “behind the scenes” from other characters’ perspective.
Also read ぼっち・ざ・ろっく week 2.
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SR 奥日光 (4 episodes)
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11月24日 | home post
- TLDR: I’ve been busy and then got so sick
My Studies lately:
- Finishing up Quartet 1 (CH6)
- Reading One Piece, Dragon Ball, lots of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, etc!
- Lots of Listening practice
- Lots of solid output (talking to myself in Japanese)
- Anki reps everyday and WK!
Quick Story
- I recently went to a Japanese Restaurant and was able to have a good conversation with the waitress in Japanese for about an hour (even got free sake out of it)
. - This was genuinely the first time I’ve felt how truly far I’ve come in my language learning and it’s made me super happy. It feels so hard to really feel like I’ve gotten far, but with my recent speaking practice with myself in the past week or two, I’ve been able to much more comfortably use the language and put the knowledge I have of it to use as well.
Moving Forward
- These next 2 weeks will be the push to the end of the semester so definitely going to be doing a lot less reading everyday, but still keep going!
As always, GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!! 
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Reading | Date | Progress |
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blank for now | 11月x日 | TBD% |
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25th november
two more chapters of 3月のライオン, which introduced me to a non-JLPT grammar point (～わ～わ), plus some suspect x too!
| emoji | book | pages read |
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3月のライオン vol 9 | 67-90 |
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lost judgment | x |
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容疑者Xの検診 | 207-224 |
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men at arms | 156-x |
today’s nhk article was this one (hyogo governor) plus the entries on をとわず and 及び in aDoAJG
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11月19日 - 11月25日
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Source | Amount |
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日本語読本レベル0 | 8 stories |
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ドラえもん | Sample chapter for book-club |
I started a new graded reader resource and am starting from level 0 again! I was planning to blitz through them to get up to my level as quick as possible, but this week has been a lot and I did the bare minimum. I’m proud of myself for reading japanese even though I was traveling though!
Before I went on my trip, I was recommended a book club on this forum, and so I decided that I will take part in it - my very first japanese book club! We will be reading Doraemon sorted by difficulty and I am so excited! It’s starting next month! I read a sample chapter and it reassured me that I was ready for something like this. I thought I would not be ready for a japanese book club until I was at least level 10, so it’s really cool that I’ll be doing this! So excited!
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