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

[alygator]

Week 2 and 3 update for the Spring Reading Challenge

April 8 - 21

I missed three days the last 2 weeks because of a social event. But that’s okay. I’m getting back to my routine now since getting back.

Here’s what I read for Weeks 2 and 3:

• 2 episodes of Dr. Dru’s stories
• 5 episodes of the Jammaker on Satorireader
• 2 weeks of Little Granny Hinata Chan (Week 4 and 5)
• XX number of pages of La Ciudad de las Bestias (reading on kindle and forgot to take note)
• 1 episode of Spanish for False Beginners podcast transcript

I think I need to really amp up my grammar studies because there are a lot of grammar points I still need to look up while reading the Jammaker and Little Granny Hinata Chan. I get the gist of most of what I’m reading but I don’t fully understand the grammar and why it’s been used.

[Marifly]

April 22 | Home post

Another day of Island, 3000 characters today. Too tired to do much more!

[hughlings]

4月22日 | Home post

This week I’m participating in a scientific meeting remotely. There were technical problems delaying the start of one of the sessions, which became reading time!

• アオハライド (7) (pp. 62-133)
• DoBJG: まだ; まで; までに; 前に (36%)

[Akashelia]

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2024年4月22日

	Title	Read today	Currently at	Notes
	Secret	2 episodes	94/98	—
	シャドーハウス	6 chapters	107/175

シャドーハウスChapter 103

Aah so many things make sense now

[Redglare]

Home post // April 22

・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (39% → 42%)

Got to read a bit in the morning, was otherwise busy writing school work. Not looking forward to exams.

[WeepingWeeb]

Home Post | Study Log | ０４月２２日

Resource	Progress	Visual
Tadoku L3 Stories	6/24	■■□□□□□□□□ 25%
Tadoku L4 Stories	0/9	□□□□□□□□□□
Tadoku L5 Stories	0/3	□□□□□□□□□□
NHK Articles	3	■■■□□□□□□□
Shirokuma Cafe	8%	□□□□□□□□□□
老女的少女ひなたちゃん１巻	2/10 → 3/10	■■■□□□□□□□ 30%
DoBJG	8/33 → 9/33	■■□□□□□□□□ 27%

Got back into it today, didn’t want to stop but I had other things to do smh. Enjoying the manga and taking notes on DoBJG in my study log

[lucylavelle]

April 22nd!

Started とんがり帽子のアトリエ today with the IMC.
Took me ages to get through this weeks reading, but the art is gorgeous so it was totally worth it.

(Home Post)

[RebBlue]

四月二十二日・Home Post

Read a chapter of スーと鯛ちゃん and lightly read this week’s 老女的少女ひなたちゃん pages.

[Jintor]

23 April | Study Log

	Title	Type	Natively	Progress
	不思議駄菓子屋1	book	24	90% → 100% COMPLETE!
	ゆるキャン△２	manga	28	0 → 12%
	また、同じ夢を見ていた	book	25	66% (no change)
	ダンジョン飯6	manga	29	48% (no change)

• FINISHED 不思議駄菓子屋1! My second book! Not sure I will keep at this series, maybe if I see it on sale or something. Really not a fan of the amount of hirigana being used instead of kanji. I want to go on and try another book at my own pace next maybe, I think week to week is a bit slow for me too.
• Started noodling around with Yuru Camp 2 randomly, will pick away at it here and there.
• Think the week’s reading for Witch Hat Atelier 1 is on the agenda tomorrow.

[taiyousea]

4月 22日

	Book	Natively	Progress	Type
	新にほんご 500問 N2	L 33	78% → 84%	JLPT
	とんがり帽子 Vol. 2	L 27	18% → 38%	Manga
	すずめの戸締まり	L 31	2.0k → 2.8k	Novel

Napped super hard today and didn’t have as much time to read as I wanted

I finished Ch. 8 of Atelier and it ended with such a big flurry of excitement, I can’t wait to see what happens next. It feels like the plot is only now starting to deepen further

See you next time ^–^

↑ zoom back up to home thread

[hughlings]

4月23日 | Home post

Finished アオハライド volume 7, which means I’m now past the halfway point of this series.

• アオハライド (7) (pp. 134-184)
• アオハライド (8) (pp. 1-139)
• DoBJG: まい; まま (37%)

[PotatoDancer]

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4月23日

More VA-11 Hall-A! Watching Jill interpret what her customers want to drink while I’m trying to interpret what both Jill and her customers are saying is definitely an interesting journey.

	Reading	Type	Status
	原罪物語 -罪-	LN	44/252
	ノーゲーム・ノーライフ 1	LN	21/301
	VA-11 Hall-A	Steam game	Day 2 out of ??

New Vocab

• 二日酔(ふつかよ)い = hangover
• 癒(い)やす = to heal something, wk57
• 忠誠(ちゅうせい) = loyalty, wk41
• 誓(ちか)い = oath, wk49
• 暗誦(あんしょう) = recitation
• 自動車事故(じどうしゃじこ) = car accident
• 甲斐(かい) = effect, wk39
• 到着(とうちゃく) = arrival, wk42
• 衝撃(しょうげき) = shock, wk40
• 崩(くず)れる = to crumble, wk39
• ちょろい = simple
• ヒリヒリ = burning, stinging
• オシッコ = childish word for pee
• ゆったり = comfortable
• ホワイト = white. I’ve got to remember that ホ at the beginning. ホワイトナイト are important to the story and it’s going to make reading difficult if I have to look this up every time. I’m going to try to remember a very thick british accent for this one.
• 落ちこぼれ = dropout, but tagged as sensitive on jisho
• ほどほど = 程々(ほどほど) = moderate
• 書類仕事(しょるいしごと) = paperwork
• 会計監査(かいけいかんさ) = audit
• 爆発(ばくはつ) = explosion. Hey there’s kanji for the thing I’ve heard so much of from konosuba lol
• 臓器(ぞうき) = internal organs (omg I’m supposed to learn this soon)
• 密売人(みつばいにん) = smuggler
• 残虐(ざんぎゃく) = cruel, wk53
• 痙攣(けいれん) = convulsion

[nyxqueenofshadows]

23rd april

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idk how many pages it was (30 smth) but i finished すきとも! and, hm. in terms of vibes and writing style i really liked it, it had quite a cosy feel, but outside of that there wasn’t a great deal there imo? in terms of like character development. maybe i was asking more from it than it had to give. the 解説(かいせつ) at the back describes it as a little like a travelogue and i think that’s fair. good as a palate cleanser read but probably not something to rush to read should probably add a blurb to natively tho, i’ll do that after

today’s nhk article was this one (very short), and the entries on となる and となると in aDoIJG

words that stood out

すきとも：
否応(いやおう)なく - whether one wants to or not
歴然(れきぜん) - evident, plain, distinct
ぐっしょり - soaking (wet), dripping, drenched.
帳場(ちょうば) - (hotel) reception
雨足(あめあし) - passing rain shower
燦々(さんさん) - brilliant, bright. inexplicably written as 燦燦(さんさん), ig this is a personal preference thing

[Marifly]

April 23 | Home post

Lots of reading today! 1500 characters from Island, a chapter from Flying Witch and a chapter from Little Granny Girl Hinata Chan. Trying to catch up with all the book clubs!

[macalys]

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4月23日火曜日

薬屋のひとりごと volume 11, 11 pages. I finished chaper 3 \o/
So proud of me. When I first began to read this light novel, I felt like lost in a sea of words, but now most of it makes sense. I still need yomitan of course, but 11 pages ! It’s unbelievable when a few months ago I could only read 2 pages before quitting from exhaustion

[Redglare]

Home post // April 23

・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (42% → 43%)

More exam writing. Got to read a tiny bit while relaxing after class.

[RebBlue]

四月二十三日・Home Post

Reread 老女的少女ひなたちゃん and dissected three more pages of フリーレン.

[lucylavelle]

April 23rd!

5 pages of the Orange Light Novel today.

(Home Post)

[Jintor]

it’s fantastic how good progress feels and how quickly (relatively to eg a lifespan) it happens. I am wondering what the speed of improvement is on read everyday vs read once a week (eg book clubs) … sounds like a @mitrac data experiment maybe lol.

(I’m still too scared of that level of LNs just yet, but working my way there)

[macalys]

@Jintor

I am wondering what the speed of improvement is on read everyday vs read once a week (eg book clubs) … sounds like a @mitrac data experiment maybe lol.

Totally ! We want the data @mitrac
I accept to become your guinea pig if needed^^

@Jintor

(I’m still too scared of that level of LNs just yet, but working my way there)

If I can do it, you can totally do it too
(I’m doing it because I love the story and I want to read the continuation, but my actual comfortable reading level is about 23-24 on Natively, I’d say)