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

**URL:** https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2024/66293
**Category:** Reading
**Created:** [June 18, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2024/66293 "2024-06-18T01:12:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 47

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Kay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kay/32/703111_2.png) [@Kay](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kay)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2024/66293/47 "2024-07-01T13:00:41Z")

</div>

[Home Post](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2024/66293/32)

I read “Cinderella” from the “Disney Golden Collection” in Japanese. I managed to go to a Japanese book sale when I was in uni (years ago and I hadn’t studied Japanese seriously since) and nabbed a copy. It’s one of those hardback books - for children obvi. All hiragana…about 20 pages with like a sentence each lol.

Many vocabulary words were unknown to me ofc. Lots were from WK levels that I haven’t reached. However, I understood many more words this time after studying on WK than when I bought the book. Words whose phonetic sounds were familiar to me by way of learning kanji gave me general ideas of the meaning.

Examples:  
ばしゃ（馬車）the sound for horse and car, “carriage”  
ぶとうかい （舞踏会）knowing that “kai” usu means get-togethers.

But I think being familiar with the story itself and the story having pictures helped.

Grammar structures that I hadn’t yet covered but managed to find on Bunpro: (I’m on N4 chapter 2 for reference)

(N3, chapter 11, lesson 1)  
Verb[よう]＋とする - Show state which you are about to do an action

(N4, chapter 14, lesson 2)  
subject 1~とsubject 2 - simplest way I understood it was “when” in the context of the sentence

(N4, chapter 18, lesson 4)  
ことになります - used when a decision has been made by someone else

(N3, chapter 13, lesson 1)  
[verb plain]ようにと - used to warn someone of something or give an order

Also the passive voice of verbs.

They were used to uncover the meaning of sentences like this:

そこで だいじんが くにじゅうの  
むすめに ガラスの くつを  
はかせて みることに なりました。

Given that it’s all hiragana, I think the spaces helped… the spaces don’t really show up when I type on here.

Honestly, my reading comprehension was much better than I expected. For pages that made my eyes roll into the back of my head and made me want to put the book down, I skipped and came back at the end. Turns out they were less intimidating than I thought. I just had to be patient. Was able to get through the book mostly(?) understanding everything.

But again, I think being familiar with the content helped. 😅

With that boost to my confidence, I think I’ll try a chapter of よつばと！ for the next few days.

---

_[View the full topic](https://community.wanikani.com/t/read-japanese-every-day-challenge-summer-2024/66293)._