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

Japanese Language Reading
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:house: home post :house:
:calendar: 2024年6月2日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Kona’s Big Adventure 2 2 episodes 22/88 —
:desert_island: ISLAND 10k 795.000 char 53 new words
:metro: アンダーグラウンド 8.4k 19.900 char 73 new words

It’s taking me a while to read Underground, because I checkout every city, every station, every prefecture that are mentioned online. My way of traveling to Japan :slight_smile:
Also it’s pretty dark (read at your own risk: description of real people dying), so happy to have ISLAND to play after that.

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June 2 | Home post

Today’s reading was chapter 2 of くまクマ熊ベアー - in a hammock, in the shade, at the cabin. I love when I can study and relax and enjoy myself, all at the same time!

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Fantastically concise :sunglasses:. I’m currently struggling with the hiragana spelling of most words in the Dr Slump manga, and this is another good example. I think I would have probably guessed the meaning of 人熱れ (pronunciation is another matter :joy: ).

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3 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:four_leaf_clover: 四つ子ぐらし 1 ひみつの姉妹生活、スタート! children’s book 23 56% → 67%
:mushroom: ダンジョン飯8 manga 30 18% (no change)
  • Two chapters of 四つ子. These kids books are like building up my faith in myself again lol even though I’m still looking up a truly ridiculous amount of words all the time
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June 2nd

Shadows House Chapter 181

June 3rd

Shadows House Chapter 182

(Home Post)

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June 3 | Home post

2000 characters from Island today.

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:house: home post :house:
:calendar: 2024年6月3日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Kona’s Big Adventure 2 2 episodes 24/88 —
:desert_island: ISLAND 10k 805.000 char 79 new words
:metro: アンダーグラウンド 1.9k 21.800 char 19 new words

More ISLAND :desert_island:

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6月3日 | Home post

It’s late, so only a tiny read — 1% to check today’s box.

  • また、同じ夢を見ていた (71.20 → 72.26%)
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Haven’t updated for a while but since then I’ve finished all of Dragon Ball and have now read the first 22 volumes of Gantz. It’s a higher level of language than DB but more than doable at this level. These days, if you cant read a kanji its so easy to just take a screenshot on the phone and look it up quickly due to modern OCR being so good.I have also gotten quite good at looking up kanji by radical in the dictionary app I use so my reading isn’t too interrupted either way. The easier it gets the more enjoyable it is to read so it definitely creates a positive feedback loop.

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4 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:four_leaf_clover: 四つ子ぐらし 1 ひみつの姉妹生活、スタート! children’s book 23 67% → 72%
:film_projector: 疑似ハーレム 6 manga 17 0 → 53%
:mushroom: ダンジョン飯8 manga 30 18% (no change)
  • Another chapter of 四つ子, might read another today as this one was fairly short.
  • Casually reading 擬似ハーレム６ to finish off the series. Still think this manga is a bit more difficult than rated due to the phraseology, but the amount of words is quite low and I think I understand this latest one a bit easier than usual.
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:potted_plant: Homepost :potted_plant:

Hello, Im starting this challenge very late but I hope I’m still welcome. Got back in to learning a couple of weeks ago and have been having so much fun reading again, so I thought it might be nice to join in. :smiley:

Goal: to read a page or more everyday and hopefully finish 老女的少女ひなたちゃん 1 this month.

Jun
月 火 水 木 金 土 日
01 :tulip: 02 :tulip:
03 :tulip: 04 :tulip: 05 :tulip::four_leaf_clover: 06 :tulip: 07 :tulip: 08 :tulip: 09 :four_leaf_clover:
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
:sunflower: Book natively Pages
:tulip: 老女的少女ひなたちゃん 1 20 start - 60
:four_leaf_clover: よつばと 3 17 start - 20
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Q2 of 2024 | Week 10

6月3日 (月)

  • :cn: Three Kingdoms : 7 (7-9/18)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

6月4日 (火)

  • :cn: Three Kingdoms : 7 (10-11/18)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

End Ch, but a little confused on how chapters are counted.

Words of the day
  • かっとなる = to be enraged :anger:
  • 無理(むり)からぬ = reasonable. Like 無理(むり)ならぬ, but (etymologically) confused with 良(よ)からぬ. Like 無理(むり)もない.
  • 無頼漢(ぶらいかん) = ruffian; scoundrel. 何者(なにもの)にも頼(たよ)ら無(な)い漢(おとこ).
  • 海苔(のり) = nori. Sea 海(うみ) lichen 苔(こけ).
  • 燐寸(マッチ) = match. I think this one is a wee bit (一寸(いっすん)) of phosphorus (燐(りん)).
  • 代(か)わり番(ばん)こに = taking turns. Like 代(か)わる代(が)わる (no に).
  • シャチ = orca; killer whale. シャチホコ is a mythical monster. (And 鉾(ほこ) / 矛(ほこ) is a kinda halberd.)
  • 風呂敷(ふろしき) = a wrapping cloth
  • 折(お)り目正(めただ)しい = well-mannered. Like 礼儀正(れいぎただ)しい.
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June 3 | Home post

17.000 characters from Island! :desert_island:

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:house: home post :house:
:calendar: 2024年6月4日 :calendar:

:question: Title Read today Currently at Notes
:orange_book: Kona’s Big Adventure 2 2 episodes 26/88 —
:desert_island: ISLAND 5k 810.000 char 45 new words
:metro: アンダーグラウンド 4.6k 26.400 char 37 new words

Wow, well done! I’m curious, how come so much? You were at a very interesting part? It felt easy? You had a lot of time? All of the above? :grin:

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June 4th!

3 pages of the Orange Light Novel today.

My new job means I’m going to be keeping slightly odd hours in the future - I’m working for a company in a different time zone to me and my working hours will be Evening/Night so reading after work will mean reading after midnight.
Because of this I’m going to be defining a day as the period of time between me waking up, and me going to sleep rather than considering a day a failure if I don’t read before midnight.

(Home Post)

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All of the above! Love it!

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Wild. I’m reading “fold correct”. I guess that’s close enough to “bowing”?

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*pleat correct

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This is what I do because I do shift work. Eg last week I did a couple of night shifts. What I read on the nights counted as the previous day. I also often finish around midnight and read to decompress when I get home.

I’m probably starting an offshoot club for the series soon. There wasn’t a lot of interest so I’ll put up a thread for volume 2 and see how we go. Due to being in multiple clubs, I’m planning to have a break of 2-3 weeks before I start. So feel free to join us!

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5 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:four_leaf_clover: 四つ子ぐらし 1 ひみつの姉妹生活、スタート! children’s book 23 72% → 85%
:film_projector: 疑似ハーレム 6 manga 17 53% (no change)
:mushroom: ダンジョン飯8 manga 30 18% (no change)
  • I’ve been busy, but tearing through 四つ子1. I think this is about my perfect level right now which is fantastic. Still loads and loads of lookups but whatever. Instant lookups with ttsu are such a godsend, I really do need to test mokuro processing at some point.