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

I thought I’d start the Monday reading for JoJo yesterday but I didn’t, whoops

June 24 | Home post

2000 characters from Island :desert_island: today. I want to read more, but I also don’t want the VN to end! Luckily I have a lot left still.

After the first two months of this year, I haven’t been reading. But, I bought the JLPT N2 Shinkanzen Master and have gotten into it. At first, my speed was languid but within 3 passages it sped up. My comprehension takes about 2 reads, so hopefully that improves over time (luckily I am not taking the exam until December).

25 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:notebook: 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ 1 light novel 23 5% → 15%
:candle: ふらいんぐういっち13 manga 19 0 → 50%
:purse: 紡ぐ乙女と大正の月 1 manga 29 31% (:pause_button:)

A busy day of reading in between work

  • Finished the first story for カタログ, definitely in the vein of 不思議駄菓子屋 but a bit darker (first story is literally about a middle/high schooler trying to kill someone via curses lol)
  • Picked up フリーレン5 and ふらいんぐういっち13 physicals. I’m not actually up to フリーレン4 just yet so that’s just going on the shelf for now, but dove straight into ういっち13 and was reminded of how much I love this series. (I really do think the later volumes are a lot harder than the lvl 19 rating, but that’s neither here nor there at this point since they’re pretty manageable for me now)

June 23rd!
Chapter 8 of とんがり帽子のアトリエ today.
I’m pretty sure this is my favourite thing to read at the moment, even though the chapters are long enough that I get fatigued reading them.

June 24th!
Chapter 7 of Frieren today, finishing off Volume 1. I’m definitely planning to keep reading this series.

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@Cathm2
I’ll check out imiwa! Thank you for the suggestion

:cat: Book Pages
:dagger: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 3 158 - 164

A bit of JoJo since I was trying to get through the chapter for this week’s reading and questions

June 25 | Home post

Just a few pages from 極寒の雪山を脱出せよ :snowflake: today.

6月17-25日 | Home post

This last week has been busy. I haven’t been reading much, but I read at least a little bit every day :muscle:

6月17日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (92.69 → 93.14%)
6月18日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (93.14 → 93.75%)
6月19日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (93.75 → 94.48%)
6月20日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (94.48 → 95.14%)
6月21日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (95.14 → 95.34%)
6月22日: また、同じ夢を見ていた (95.34 → 96.56%)

6月23日

  • また、同じ夢を見ていた (96.56 → 96.77%)
  • N3単語 weekly Anki cards: pp. 91-101 (34%)

6月24日

  • また、同じ夢を見ていた (96.77 → 97.78%)
  • Finished DoBJG :tada:

6月24日

  • Finished また、同じ夢を見ていた :tada:

26 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:notebook: 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ 1 light novel 23 15% → 21%
:candle: ふらいんぐういっち13 manga 19 50% → 100% (completed) :white_check_mark:
:purse: 紡ぐ乙女と大正の月 1 manga 29 31% (:pause_button:)
  • Another half-chapter of カタログ, might finish this story today. A lot simpler than the last story but that makes it easier to read too.
  • Finished ふらいんぐういっち13. Another year for the next vol I guess! I find this series still so delightful, whenever you think it’s settling into a groove too much some random magic stuff happens to spice things up.

Finally finished the JoJo chapter and tried to read some Ouran before bed. Terrible idea, will not be doing it again.

June 25th!

Jetlag seems to have caught up with me a little today, I woke up way too early, so after a busy day at work I had the attention span of a toddler by the time I sat down to read this evening.
So I checked what I already own on bookwalker that had a low Natively Level for todays reading instead of continuing with one of my usual reads.
I picked かわずや since it looked cute.
It seems ok, not much happens, but the art is cute and its a very easy read so might make a good ABBC book at some point.

Text density is super low, so I read the first 5 chapters, and that still kind of felt like I was cheating by calling it my reading for today. BUT, it had a lot of onomatopoeia, which is something I’m very weak in understanding, so I figure it was good practise for that at least :slight_smile:

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June 26 | Home post

2500 characters from a new VN, Witch on the Holy Night.

Finished SR’s 聞き耳ラジオthis morning. That’s two SR stories read for this challenge - very slow, but steady. Looking forward to starting a new one tomorrow.

6月26日 | Home post

Started reading my first Visual Novel today! I’m excited to try a different medium.

  • LOOPERS Chapter 1 (2864 characters)

27 June | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:notebook: 世にも奇妙な商品カタログ 1 light novel 23 21% → 28%
:purse: 紡ぐ乙女と大正の月 1 manga 29 31% (:pause_button:)
  • Finished the chapter of カタログ, relatively easy read lookupwise but still a challenge in terms of stamina. Unfortunately the story also had kind of an ‘implications’ ending instead of actually having a proper ending. But hey at least there was a load of repeated vocab.
  • Will probably start on the winner of my next book poll tonight, あく令嬢おじさん

Got in a little reading before bed.

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6月27日

So funny story. I opened Little Witch in the Woods today because I tell myself that I have to be getting close if I can just figure out how/where to get the new potion recipes from. And I check the game discord because sometimes they have useful hints in there, and they tell me that a new fishing update is coming in ~2 hours. So I guess tomorrow I’m going fishing. How convenient that I’m on the level with the fishing kanji.

Also ended up finding the potion recipes. This let me unlock the last(?) bit of the valley.

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 2 out of ??
:mage: Little Witch in the Woods Steam game Month 2 day 21 out of ??
New Vocab
  • 絨毯(じゅうたん) = rug
  • (つか)む = to grip/grab/grasp
  • (とり)かご = birdcage
  • 欠片(かけら) = fragment, shard
  • (はら)()たす = to satisfy one’s appetite
  • (はち) = flowerpot, wk48
  • 専用(せんよう) = use for a particular purpose
  • (すべ)()め = non slip
  • 粘着性(ねんちゃくせい) = adhesion, stickiness
  • 賜物(たまもの) = fruit of one’s labor
  • 生息(せいそく) = inhabiting
  • 日陰(ひかげ) = shade
  • ねばねば = sticky

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6月24日 (月)

  • :cn: China Map series (11/13)
  • :cn: Graded Chinese Reader 1000 Words : 1 story
  • おもしろいほどよくわかる羽生善治の将棋入門 (0-15%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

6月25日 (火)

  • :cn: China Map series (12/13)
  • おもしろいほどよくわかる羽生善治の将棋入門 (15-39%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル end Ch.

6月26日 (水)

  • :cn: China Map series (13/13) end
  • おもしろいほどよくわかる羽生善治の将棋入門 (39-53%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

6月27日 (木)

  • :cn: (Du) 贴春联
  • おもしろいほどよくわかる羽生善治の将棋入門 (53-71%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル start Ch.
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