📚📚 Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2024 🏖🍉🏏

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challenge goals:

3 volumes manga
Japanese HP 75% completed
Japanese HP 100% completed…? :eyes:

:roller_coaster: soggy’s challenge review :roller_coaster:

Manga finished:

Children’s novels finished:

I think for this challenge season I focused a bit more on listening than reading, but I made major gains in my prose reading and finished two children’s novels! Over the course of reading them, especially with trying out extensive reading with Goosebumps, I feel that my reading speed increased and my comprehension of sentences as one unit increased a lot. I’m noticing a big difference in feeling like I’m reading a whole sentence, rather than just one word at a time before I move on to the next.

I also read from 39% → 55% of japanese HP. I initially assumed I would focus more on that this time around, but ended up focusing on paperback reads instead. The more kanji I learn, the more approachable HP will be as a paperback read, so I may try that soon and see how it goes. Reading easier children’s novels still helps a lot with my comprehension level of HP. I’ve noticed improvements every time I’ve gone back to it.