📚 📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Spring 2024 🌸 🍡 🌱

Japanese Language Reading
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:bug: April 19th :horse_racing:

:cat: Book Pages
:musical_note: 気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.2 27 - 46
:rainbow: 日本の美しい色と言葉 90 - 91, 167

The new season according to colors :rainbow: is very pink heavy and is marked by rains washing away the leftover cherry blossoms

f this formatting garbage, whatever. Record legibly restored

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:house: Home Post | :writing_hand: Study Log | ０４月１９日

Resource Progress Visual
:orange_book: Tadoku L3 Stories 6/24 ■■□□□□□□□□ 25%
:green_book: Tadoku L4 Stories 0/9 □□□□□□□□□□
:blue_book: Tadoku L5 Stories 0/3 □□□□□□□□□□
:newspaper_roll: NHK Articles 2 ■■□□□□□□□□
:coffee: Shirokuma Cafe 8% □□□□□□□□□□
:teddy_bear: 老女的少女ひなたちゃん１巻 1/9 → 3.5/9 ■■□□□□□□□□ 27%
:open_book: DoBJG 7/205 □□□□□□□□□□ 3%

Woo

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April 20th!

Today I read this weeks portion of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった Volume 2.

(Home Post)

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 3

4月20日 (土)

  • ゆるキャン△ Vol.16 Ch.91

  • :cn: Three Kingdoms : Prologue (2-3/6)

  • STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん

Second Ending

Words of the day
  • ややあって = a little while later. やや is like しばらく or 僅(わず)かの差(さ).
  • 三々五々(さんさんごご) = in multiple small groups of people. Some 3 some 5.
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April 20 | Home post
Another day of Island :desert_island:, about 5000 characters. That’s as much as my head can take in one day!

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:bookmark: Home post // April 20 :cherry_blossom: :dango: :seedling:

・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (36% → 38%)

Oho, almost done week 3 part. I tried recording my voice while reading, it went まあまあ okay. Protip: Don’t record your voice late at night when tired and haven’t hydrated because you’ve ran out of your favorite drink.

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4月20日 | Home post

I read a lot today…only it was a book in English :sweat_smile:

  • アオハライド (7) (pp. 35-49)
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四月二十日・Home Post

Dissected one page of フリーレン

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21 April | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:cat2: また、同じ夢を見ていた book 25 63%
:eagle: ダンジョン飯6 manga 29 48% (no change)
:candy: 不思議駄菓子屋1 book 24 90% (no change)
  • Half the week’s reading of 同じ夢, will finish the rest of the week’s reading tomorrow.
  • May or may not noodle around with something today, we’ll see. Might just take a rest and do some rereading
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:house: Home Post | :writing_hand: Study Log | ０４月２０日

Resource Progress Visual
:orange_book: Tadoku L3 Stories 6/24 ■■□□□□□□□□ 25%
:green_book: Tadoku L4 Stories 0/9 □□□□□□□□□□
:blue_book: Tadoku L5 Stories 0/3 □□□□□□□□□□
:newspaper_roll: NHK Articles 2 → 3 ■■■□□□□□□□
:coffee: Shirokuma Cafe 8% □□□□□□□□□□
:teddy_bear: 老女的少女ひなたちゃん１巻 3.5/9 ■■□□□□□□□□ 27%
:open_book: DoBJG 1/33 → 7/33 ■■□□□□□□□□ 21%

Did some DoBJG, nothing worth taking notes really but good to look through. Also read a quick NHK article

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I read 2 articles from NHK News Web Easy.

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Same!! I had a problem last year where I was trying to translate a pun and first I struggled with localizing it, and then I struggled with how to convey it in writing.

Ended up realizing that wordpress does in fact support ruby text, so I used furigana in English to make the pun clear to my translation blog's readers, haha.

otsukareSUMMER

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:dango: :seedling: snowwater’s home thread :snowflake::droplet:

:snowflake::droplet: 04月18日 (木) Type Progress Pages
:owl: ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 Book 12->13% 58 to 60
:snowflake::droplet: 04月19日 (金) Type Progress Pages
:owl: ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 Book 13->15% 60 to 69
:mage:t2: とんがり帽子のアトリエ Manga 3 to 18
:snowflake::droplet: 04月20日 (土) Type Progress Pages
:couple_with_heart_woman_woman: アステリズムに花束を 百合SFアンソロジー Book 81->83% 288 to 296
:mage:t2: とんがり帽子のアトリエ Manga 18 to 35

It’s been quite a busy week at work, so some days I didn’t have much time to read (and would just go to bed too exhausted to do so). But I started とんがり this weekend, which is nice. I also started the final chapter of アステリズムに花束を 百合SFアンソロジー. I’m halfway through this week’s part and not really hooked on the story so far, but hopefully it will get more interesting soon.

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13/4 6 pages セーラー服と機関銃 (finished week 6), 17 pages ホリミヤ (finished volume 2), aDoIJG までもない

14/4 8 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (finished week 6, started next), aDoIJG まい

15/4 7 pages セーラー服と機関銃, aDoIJG まさか

16/4 1 page セーラー服と機関銃, 4 pages 舞妓さんちのまかないさん (finished week 7), aDoIJG ましだ

17/4 7 pages Spy Family, 4 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん, aDoIJG または

18/4 1 page セーラー服と機関銃, 5 pages Spy Family (finished mission 79), aDoIJG 目 and 面

19/4 5 pages セーラー服と機関銃 (finished week 7 and started next), 3 pages Spy Family, aDoIJG みせる

20/4 39 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ (read week 1 plus a bit)

Haven’t updated for over a week! Still read every day, and mostly better efforts than last week. I decided to read とんがり帽子 with the IMC so started that yesterday. Possibly one of the only things I’m currently up to date with…

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 3

4月21日 (日)

  • NHKにようこそ! (87-100%)

  • DIJG : よう(がない)

  • STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん

  • :cn: Three Kingdoms : Prologue (4/6)

Words of the day
  • 付(つ)き纏(まと)う = to follow around; to be dogged by; to be continuously troubled by
  • 閑話休題(かんわきゅうだい) = back to subject at hand. 閑話(かんわ) is 無駄話(むだばなし). 休題(きゅうだい) is 話(はなし)を止(や)める.
  • 接(つ)ぎ穂(ほ) = something to keep conversation going; (plant bud) grafting into 台木(だいぎ). The action is 接(つ)ぎ木(き).
    • The verb 接(つ)ぐ is 繋(つな)ぎ合(あ)わせる. Somewhat like 継(つ)ぐ or 次(つ)ぐ.
  • 印税(いんぜい) = royalty fee, for the author of a published book
  • 廃屋(はいおく) = dilapidated house
  • 人心地(ひとごこち)が付(つ)く = to feel relieved after getting through troubles
  • 行(い)きつけ = one’s regular (favorite) place/destination
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This week went well :smiling_face:
15.04 chapter 91 of 月刊少女野崎くん (10)
16.04 chapter 92 of 月刊少女野崎くん (10) and 10 pages of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (2)
17.04 16 more pages of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (2) and 17 pages of 雨と君と (1)
18.04 10 pages of 老女的少女ひなたちゃん (1)
19.04 10 pages of 雨と君と (1), first week of 葬送のフリーレン (1) and this week’s reading of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった (2)
20.04 first week’s reading of とんがり帽子のアトリエ (1), 9 pages of 黄泉のツガイ (4) and this week’s 老女的少女ひなたちゃん (1)
21.04 10 pages 黄泉のツガイ (4), finished ふらいんぐうぃっち vol.1 and started vol.2.
I’m up to date with all my book clubs and even read a bit more. Yay!
Such nice picks for BBC and IMC!
I hope to read as much next week too, but work’s gonna be not so easy as this week, so we’ll see.

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:house: home post :house:
:calendar: 2024年4月21日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Secret 2 episodes 92/98 —
:woman_mage: とんがり帽子のアトリエ Chapter 1 part 1
:woman_elf: 葬送のフリーレン Chapter 1 part 1

Enjoyed starting the two new book clubs :slight_smile: was a bit anxious that it would hard to stop at the week’s stop, but it’s not, I still have WK reviews to do, JPDB reviews to do, Quartet chapter 7 reading for week 2, and playing a bit of Flowers automne :hot_face:

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I read Aryn’s Rescue and an article on NHK News Web Easy. The News Web Easy article was actually pretty difficult because it was talking about NASA and the universe.

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Home Post

4月21日

Okay this past week got away from me a little bit. But today I’m playing a game I’ve already played in English, in Japanese! It’s a relaxing bartending game where you listen to people talk and you mix drinks for them. Lots of text and no time limits, so it’s perfect for me to slowly look up words if I have to. The font is a little wonky at times too because of the old game style they’re going for, which is good font practice! Lots of combining kanji I already know to make new words.

Reading Type Status
:smiling_imp: 原罪物語 -罪- LN 44/252
:game_die: ノーゲーム・ノーライフ 1 LN 21/301
:beers: VA-11 Hall-A Steam game Day 1 out of ??
Vocab list
  • シャキッと = sharply, alertly, candidly
  • タキシード = tuxedo
  • コーギー = corgi
  • 残高(ざんだか) = bank balance
  • インフレ = inflation
  • 世界有数(せかいゆうすう) = world leading
  • 日常品(にちじょうひん) = everyday necessities
  • 恒常的(こうじょうてき) = constant
  • 蔓延(まんえん) = rampant, spread
  • 関(かか)わらず = in spite of, regardless of
  • 行為(こうい) = act, deed wk35
  • 加減(かげん) = extent
  • ぼんやり = absentmindedly
  • 様子(ようす) = circumstances, appearance
  • 去勢手術(きょせいしゅじゅつ) = neutering (Jill had to get her cat fixed)
  • すっからかん = flat broke
  • 強制退去(きょうせいたいきょ) = forced eviction
  • 朝飯前(あさめしまえ) = piece of cake, very easy
  • オンザロック = on the rocks = I need to remember to add ice to the drinks…
  • すこぶる = extremely
  • 甲斐(かい) = effect
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Week 3 update :blossom:

Even if it was not a lot, I actually read every day this week, and finally managed to get through 1900+ reviews to get to level 14.

I have also tried Satori Reader. I had already read some positive comments here on WK about it, so I knew it had a good reputation, but I didn’t expect it to be that great. It’s literally the best reading application I’ve ever seen. It makes things so much easier, so much less intimidating. I love the fact that the definitions are in relation with the text, and the presence of additional explications. There seems to be a lot of content too, I’m still on a free account but I will probably take a subscription.

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