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

:house: Home Post | :writing_hand: Study Log | 04月23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 3 ■■■□□□□□□□
:coffee: Shirokuma Cafe 8% □□□□□□□□□□
:teddy_bear: 老女的少女ひなたちゃん1巻 3/10 ■■■□□□□□□□ 30%
:open_book: DoBJG 9/33 → 10/33 ■■■□□□□□□□ 30%

DoJG notes from today, not very long but alas.

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2024-04-22 — 2024-04-23

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Date Name Type Amount Time
2024-04-23 :supervillain: セーラー服と機関銃 :closed_book: Novel
:durtle: (IBC)
:arrow_forward: IBC Week 10
:computer: 41 → 45%
:page_facing_up: ~10 Pages
:hourglass_flowing_sand: 0h35m
2024-04-22 :supervillain: セーラー服と機関銃 :closed_book: Novel
:durtle: (IBC)
:arrow_forward: IBC Week 10
:computer: 38% → 41%
:page_facing_up: ~10 Pages
:hourglass_flowing_sand: 0h30m

I’m now back up to date with the IBC! I don’t know if it was the fatigue of marathoning a bunch of セーラー服と機関銃 since I also just did the IBC week 9 chapter recently, the new job fatigue or the content of this week’s chapter, but it was definitely one of the harder weeks for the IBC, so I had to split it across two days after doing it in one for the last few chapters.

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 4

4月23日 (火)

  • :cn: Three Kingdoms : 3 Epilogue (1/6)

  • クプルムの花嫁 Vol.4 (23-49%)

  • DIJG : ~ざるを得ない, ぞ

Appendixes are next. Ended faster than I thought.

  • STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん
Words of the day
  • こんがり(.) = well-roasted; well-cooked. Good brown colored.
  • ()(たまご) = beaten egg
  • 薄力粉(はくりきこ) = cake flour. Low protein/sticky content (? actually I don’t know I don’t cook). Opposite is 強力粉(きょうりきこ) = bread flour.
  • 重曹(じゅうそう) = baking soda. From 重炭酸(じゅうたんさん)ソーダ, where ソーダ can also be written 曹達(ソーダ). Technically also 重炭酸(じゅうたんさん)ナトリウム.
  • カツオたたき = (かつお) in which the outer surface is lightly grilled, leaving the inner flesh raw, usually served in slices with onion or other pungent herbs
  • レンチン = microwaving. Just 電子(でんし)レンジでチンする. Otherwise said レンジアップ.
  • 仕出(しだ)し = food delivery; catering. Like 出前(でまえ)
  • 店屋物(てんやもの) = delivered food. From 飲食店(いんしょくてん), though also historically from 居酒屋(いざかや) or 一膳飯屋(いちぜんめしや).
    • Just first two Kanji is a different word. 店屋(みせや) = store.
  • 栄養(えいよう)(かたよ)り = unbalanced diet
  • 鋳物師(いものし) = caster (of metalwork). Their job is 鋳物(いもの) or 鋳造(ちゅうぞう). From the verb ()る.
  • 建具屋(たてぐや) = joiner; cabinet maker. Makers of 建具(たてぐ) = fittings.
  • 幹事(かんじ) = manager; secretary; organizer
  • ()ちつ()たれつの関係(かんけい) = give-and-take relationship; interdependence; helping each other
  • 条件反射(じょうけんはんしゃ) = conditioned reflex. Like a Pavlovian dog.
  • カラバリ(.) = color variation.
  • 原生林(げんせいりん) = primeval forest

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experiments idea

Ooh really that would be fun, are you willing to do 2-3 months of each in a row to find out? I could totally design that experiment and give you next steps/ help with tracking…

Or if you prefer one then we could set that as your baseline and add the other to it. It doesn’t quite answer the same question but could still be interesting. Or… am I taking this too seriously :smile:

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:cherry_blossom::seedling::memo: 4月 23日

Book Natively Progress Type
:milky_way: ハピネス Vol. 1 L 17 0% → 100% Manga :tada:
:closed_book: 新にほんご 500問 N2 L 33 84% → 85% JLPT
:womans_hat: とんがり帽子 Vol. 2 L 27 38% → 54% Manga

I noticed my book bingo card has a category called “lowest level on TBR” so I scrolled over to my loooong Natively to-be-read list and saw that the manga fitting that category was ハピネス! I remember its offshoot book clubs having lots of activity back when I first joined WK last year, but it was too far above my level for me to jump in at the time :sweat_smile: As for the storyline, I thought it was… interesting :grimacing: a little weirder than I imagined going in but it certainly keeps your attention lol!

I also read Ch. 9 of Atelier! We meet a new important character in this chapter (I’ve seen fanart of him for years but never knew which series he was from ahaha) so I’m still hooked as always. There was also a super cute cooking scene, which I love because this manga makes food look sooo tasty :shallow_pan_of_food:

See you next time! ^–^

zoom back up to home thread

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April 24th (and April 19th) | SeanBones’ Home Post

Book Progress
:full_moon: Tsukihime Flashback/Prologue
Monthly Afternoon 4.2024 Like two chapters

Thoughts:

I started Tsukihime (the enhanced switch version), and it wasn’t honestly totally easy to follow along with no look ups!!! That was super gratifying and motivating, and I was super happy to continue with it.

And thennnnnnn… I got COVID… Whoops!

So, my reading has been at a minimum as I have been trying to rest as much as possible. Which makes me sad as I was just coming into into my reading groove! Pretty bummed but its honestly not worth getting upset about haha. Will do my best to read over the next few days, but honestly resting and life take priority right now!!

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Answer to Mitrac

I like that you take it seriously ! :grin:
I think I’d like to stick to my everyday reading routine, so the second solution might suit me better ?
I can try to find someone willing to take part in the second part of the experiment in the accountability partners thread :thinking:

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I hope you’re better ! Sending good vibes !

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to macalys

how fun! tag me on my log or yours to discuss! I have questions…

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I have to consider it, one of the things I like about my current reading patterns is I’m not actually beholden to arbitrary limitations other than ‘read something each day’ lol

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24th april

home post

did the intermediate and challenge renshuu book club picks. intermediate was a tadoku reader story about two soldiers who guard opposite sides of a border (pretty depressing, but the audio was helpful listening practice), and challenge was a short gag manga about a 妖精(ようせい) trying to recruit a new magical girl who’s a ヤンキー and she demands workers rights, good fun.

today’s nhk articles were this one and this one (so looong), and the entries on (とお)りに and とする in aDoIJG

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 4

4月24日 (水)

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

  • クプルムの花嫁 Vol.4 (49-68%)

  • STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん

Words of the day
  • ザブン = (on-mim) jumping into water with a splash
  • 過不足(かふそく)のない = neither too much nor too little. Too much may be ()ぎる or 過剰(かじょう).
  • (むし)居所(いどころ)(わる)い = bad-tempered

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Home Post

I finished Tokyo Revengers! 31 volumes! Unreal! It also took me until this last volume to realize that リベンジ could also mean having another try at something. Which makes a lot more sense than taking revenge. :laughing:

4月18日
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰、中也、十五歳 2 Ch 7

4月19日
東京卍リベンジャーズ 31 Ch 270

4月20日
東京卍リベンジャーズ 31 Ch 271-269 (finish!)

4月21日
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰、中也、十五歳 2 Ch 8

4月22日
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰、中也、十五歳 2 Ch 9

4月23日
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰、中也、十五歳 2 Ch 10

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:bug: April 23rd :horse_racing:

:cat: Book Pages
:dagger: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 3 start - 17

otherwise I’ll forget to track

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4月24日 | Home post

Finished アオハライド volume 8 and started volume 9 :blush:

  • アオハライド (8) (pp. 140-184)
  • アオハライド (9) (pp. 1-47)
  • DoBJG: ~ましょう; 見える (38%)
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April 24 | Home post

3000 characters from the VN Island today.

I downloaded the Chrome extension 10ten to look up words from Island. Using it, I can see what Wanikani level and what Bunpro vocab deck the words belong to. Now I look up several words in most sentences, but I see that just getting to level 20 will be a big improvement in the amount of words that I have to look up. Sometimes I find a sentence where I understand everything and that feels like a small victory. Reading will be so much more enjoyable when I understand more without having to look up that much!

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四月二十四日・Home Post

read 2 chapter of スーと鯛ちゃん.

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April 24th

4 pages of the Orange Light Novel today :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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:bookmark: Home post // April 24 :cherry_blossom: :dango: :seedling:

・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (43% → 44%)

I’ve lost my reading habit :durtle_durverted_lvl2: I’ve gotten so used to reading on the train while I was doing internship. Now that I’m done internship, I don’t take the train anymore and I end up not reading for the entire day.

Not having the same routine every day feels weird. My sense of hunger is messed up, I’m not hungry so some days I don’t eat dinner. I’d watch anime while eating dinner, but since I’m not, I end up not watching anime either. So coming back from internship is affecting my activity in both the reading and the listening challenge. Yabai ne kore :durtle_tomato:

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:motor_scooter: back to my home post

:star: 04月24日 Type Progress
:owl: ハリーポッタと賢者の石 prose 24% → 26%

Ding ding! Passed 25%!

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