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

[Jintor]

Won’t have access to my PC today to do proper formatting, but I read half of Frieren 3

アウラ、自害しろ

[meagstudies]

2024.05.13 home post
とんがり帽子のアトリエ１: 0% → 19%
教養366 Day 45 - レントゲン写真

Now that I’m done w 気になってる人 I’m finally starting とんがり帽子のアトリエ! Such a beautifully drawn manga

[SeanBones]

May 7th-13th | SeanBones’ Home Post

	Book	Progress
	Dungeon Meshi	Chapter 52
	Tsukihime	Finished first day of school!
	Seiyuu Radio	Chapter 1
	Cosmos	Chapter 9

Thoughts:

Started a new weekly tradition of reading a chapter of Dungeon Meshi with a friend, its pretty hard especially jumping right into it, needed to check with the English afterwards to fully understand!

Been continuing with Tsukihime, its so much easier than I thought it would be, and I’m absolutely loving it! The music, the voice acting, and the ease of reading make it my favorite non-manga reading experience by far!

Seiyuu radio- gave it a whirl, decidedly very much not for me!

Cosmos- Really good new manga by the creator of Beelzebub, fits in perfectly with what Sunday GX is trying to do as a brand, may write about it soon once my life becomes normal!

[Empathic6170]

I’m a bit bad when it comes to online stuff, but this is such a cool thing. I’m joining really late, but it’s the motivation I need to start reading. I’ve got a few light novels that I’ll try picking up.

			Apr
月	火	水	木	金	土	日
01	02	03	04	05	06	07
08	09	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

			May
月	火	水	木	金	土	日
		01	02	03	04	05
06	07	08	09	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

			Jun
月	火	水	木	金	土	日
					01	02
03	04	05	06	07	08	09
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

[nyxqueenofshadows]

14th may

more ガリレオ, read from pg 90-109, with some questions answered and plenty new ones to chew over. also read the intermediate for this week’s renshuu book club, which is about two witches who need to climb a giant to burn the tree growing on its head and it was very good, would recommend! a bit emotional in places and the art is gorgeous! vertical scrolling tho for people who mind about that

today’s nhk article was this one (which i thought would be longer but whatever), and the entries on よう2 and より in aDoIJG

<軽量鉄骨>[けいりょうてっこつ] - light gauge steel
<散弾銃>[さんだんじゅう] - shotgun. makes sense!
<噴霧乾燥>[ふんむかんそう] - spray drying

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 7

5月14日 (火)

• Three Kingdoms : 4 (4-6/18)

• STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん

Words of the day

• 子(こ)を儲(もう)ける = to beget a child
• 着痩(きや)せする = to look thinner in clothing. Opposite is 着太(きぶと)り.
• 奔走(ほんそう) = making every effort to; running about
• 入(い)れ揚(あ)げる = to spend money recklessly on
• 馴(な)れ初(そ)め = beginning of love; start of romance . Not so 見初(みそ)める. (Also noun vs verb.)
• 恋慕(れんぼ) = affections; tender emotions. Like 恋(こ)い慕(した)う. Not as much as 横恋慕(よこれんぼ).
• 気(き)が気(き)でない = feeling uneasy
• 是(ぜ)とする = to approve of; to justify. A 特例(とくれい) in context.
• 息(いき)せき切(き)る = to pant while hurriedly running. Like 息(いき)を切(き)る / 息(いき)を切(き)らす, but also with 急(せ)く.
• 軽(かる)はずみ = thoughtless; hasty. Somewhat like 軽々(かるがる)しい or 軽率(けいそつ). Also latter half not in Kanji.

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[Marifly]

May 14 | Home post

5000 words from Island today. I’m really enjoying it!

In addition, I found an old textbook that I started once and never got too far with: “Introduction to Japanese reading skills”. I went through the first chapter, adding unknown vocab to my reviews on Bunpro. With 3 books in the series, I think they will keep me busy for a while!

[hughlings]

5月14日 | Home post

I am surprised with how much I’m enjoying また、同じ夢を見ていた. It feels like it’s at a perfect difficulty level, where it’s just the right level of challenge for learning (with Yomitan and some DeepL/ChatGPT machine translation to make sure my understand was correct; without these crutches it would be a different story).

• また、同じ夢を見ていた (4.72 → 7.50%)
• DoBJG: お; を (1) (54%)

[Akashelia]

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2024年5月14日

	Title	Read today	Currently at	Notes
	My Sweetie is Japanese	2 episodes	24/28	—
	蛇にピアス	36 %	100 %	126 new words

Finished 蛇にピアス today! Read the whole last part in one sitting, took a bit more than two hours. Not sure that I would have read that much on my own, it’s nice when a Book Club helps you push your limits!

[Redglare]

Home post // May 14

・ 今はもうない - Switch Back (70% → 72%)

Slow pace continues. Today was busy working on exam.

[lucylavelle]

May 14th!

4 more pages of the Orange Light Novel today

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[WeepingWeeb]

Home Post | Study Log | 05月14日

Resource	Progress	Visual
Tadoku L3 Stories	6/24	■■□□□□□□□□ 25%
NHK Articles	5	■■■■■□□□□□
Shirokuma Cafe	8/25	■■■□□□□□□□32%
老女的少女ひなたちゃん１巻	5/10 → 6/10	■■■■■■□□□□ 60%
DoBJG	11/33 → 13/33	■■■□□□□□□□ 39%
チーズスイートホーム１巻	20/20	■■■■■■■■■■ 100%
チーズスイートホーム２巻	18/18	■■■■■■■■■■ 100%

Missed some days because of exams but I’m free again so here we go!

[Cathm2]

12/5 2 pages また,同じ夢を見ていた, 5 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん

13/5 2 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん

14/5 10 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん (finished week 10)

Well I wasn’t managing to read very much with the diving and the conference, but diving cancelled due weather today, and I have Covid, so diving is off for the rest of the week

[soggyboy]

back to my home post

		05月14日	Type	Progress
	ABBC	老女的少女ひなたちゃん	manga	55% → 63%
	BBC	葬送のフリーレン	manga	27% → 34%
		Japanese Folktales	reader	3 → 4/22 stories
		ハリーポッタと賢者の石	prose	36% → 38%

This week’s hinata-chan, and started next week’s Frieren. I need to remember to go back and check over this section of Frieren again so I can ask questions in the book club next week.
In Japanese HP they had to explain what a thumbs up is (「よかった」という合図をする ) which I thought was kind of fun. Also read a folk tale for bedtime, Kintarou.

[Jintor]

15 May | Study Log

	Title	Type	Natively	Progress
	葬式のフリーれん３	manga	26	45% → 69%
	とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1	manga	26	65% (no change)
	また、同じ夢を見ていた	book	25	82% (no change)
	ダンジョン飯７	manga	29	28% (no change)

• Another two chapters of Frieren, might read another today idk

[PotatoDancer]

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5月14+15日

Reading past midnight totally counts as a new day. I decided to (finally) go back to Little Witch in the Woods after a couple months break because they apparently have a new update and last time I took notes I wanted to get past ~level 32 to try again. It’s much easier now and 3 hours passed by super quickly. Now I just have to try to keep up the streak.

	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 ??
	Little Witch in the Woods	Steam game	Day 2 out of ??

New Vocab

• 今頃(いまごろ) = about this time
• 牢屋(ろうや) = jail
• 棺桶(かんおけ) = coffin
• 浸(ひた)る = to be soaked in, wk49
• 耐(た)える = to endure, to put up with, wk48
• 足掻(あが)く = to flail around
• 慌(あわ)てる = to become confused, wk49
• 鈍(にぶ)い = slow, dull, wk46
• 椎茸(しいたけ) = shiitake mushroom
• 偽造(ぎぞう) = forgery, wk41
• 洞窟(どうくつ) = cave
• てっぺん = summit
• 蛇(へび) = snake, wk48
• イバラ = 茨(いばら) = thorny shrub, wk52
• 芯(しん) = core, wk47
• 拒絶(きょぜつ) = refusal
• 紋章(もんしょう) = crest, coat of arms
• 羽根(はね)ペン = quill
• 虫取(むしと)り網(あみ) = butterfly net
• 標識(ひょうしき) = sign
• 大釜(おおがま) = cauldron

[nyxqueenofshadows]

15th may

home post

pg 109-116 in ガリレオ cos time just wasn’t working with me today. also read the challenge renshuu read, which is a short story about a guy who starts getting calls from his dead friend and yeah it was okay? something about this didn’t land for me and i can’t put my finger on what. nice vibes tho

today’s nhk article was this one, plus the entries on ざるを得ない and ぞ in aDoIJG which means i’m done with the main entries! just the 100 pages of appendices to go…

words that stood out

小切手(こぎって) - cheque
弔電(ちょうでん) - telegram of condolence
衝立(ついたて) - partitioning screen. in this case in an office

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Q2 of 2024 | Week 7

5月15日 (水)

• Three Kingdoms : 4 (7-9/18)

• STEINS;GATE 比翼恋理のだーりん

Words of the day

• まざまざ(.) = (on-mim) vividly; distinctly. Perhaps like ありあり.
• あるまじき(.) = unbecoming; improper (e.g. of a lady). So はしたない.
• 売(う)り言葉(ことば)に買(か)い言葉(ことば) = tit for tat; quarreling inflammatory words for words. Equally strong 口喧嘩(くちげんか).
• 父性愛(ふせいあい) = paternal love. Maternal one is 母性愛(ぼせいあい).
• 敵(てき)を知(し)り己(おのれ)を知(し)れば百戦危(ひゃくせんあや)うからず = know your enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.
  • But then, it can be written differently. 彼(かれ)を知(し)り己(おのれ)を知(し)れば百戦殆(ひゃくせんあやう)からず.
• 人間不信(にんげんふしん) = distrust of other human beings
• いい年(とし) = mature age (but still not grown up)
• 半死半生(はんしはんしょう) = half-killed. Like been 半殺(はんごろ)し.
• 序(じょ)の口(くち) = (only just) the beginning. Also 出(で)だし later in context.

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[lucylavelle]

May 15th!

7 pages of the Orange Light Novel today. Only 5 pages left in this chapter now

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[Marifly]

April 15 | Home post

5000 charactes from the Island VN today. I want to keep reading all night! I’m really enjoying it.