July 16
| Type | Done today | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| ロジカとラッカセイ volume 1 | Chapter 4, 5 | 5/8 chapters |
| ふしぎ駄菓子屋 | 1.9k characters | 11/42k characters |
7月16日  |
Title | Progress | Length | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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コンビニ人間 (29) | 87 → 90 | 137 | 小説 |
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プロジェクトセカイ | 1 ch | ゲーム |
Today was mostly a listening day
Also, to double back on this, it’s actually worth adding the context. You can hide it behind a cloze field or use CSS to de-emphasise the info, but I’ve never seen anything wrong with keeping context as part of the prompt for Anki cards.
16th july
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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テイルズ・オブ・シンフォニア | manga | 24 | pg 53-x |
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ブレイブリーデフォルト | game | N/A | none |
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axiom’s end | eng book | N/A | pg 64-71ish |
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aDoAJG | grammar | N/A | pg 78-84 |
aDoAJG entries were どちらかというと and どうか
this nhk article, which taught me the word pantograph!
had an eye test this morning so didn’t get chance for tales or bravely default. i did take my physical copy of すべてがFになる with me tho and skimmed the first 15 or so pages of that while i waited. not sure how much of it i took in in between listening to the general chatter of a specsavers but i tried my best!
words that stood out
all fromすべてがFになる
九九 - times table
女史 - lady (of high social status, in this case a scholar)
華奢 - dainty, delicate, slim and elegant
not to jump into this convo but i’m seconding this! i initially didn’t add context to my cards, and of my leech cards a good chunk of them are ones that didn’t have context or a jp dictionary entry attached. it takes more time, but it’s worth it imo!
I remembered memorizing up to 12x12 in the past (and a little poke at up to 25), but Japanese only took up to 9?
I also don’t remember having 0 and 1 rows.
Today: p. 44-49 of よつばと！ Vol 4.
Vocab
放流: ほうりゅう: release; stocking (of fish in a pond)
寄せる: よせる: to collect, to approach
飲み込む: のみこむ: to swallow
引っ張る: ひっぱる: to pull
引っかかる: ひっかかる: to be stuck in
抜ける: ぬける: to come out
押し込む: おしこむ: to push into, to cram into
ヌルヌル: slippery
滑る: すべる: to be slippery
ぎゅっと: tightly, forcefully
July 15th
| Title | Type | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| サマータイムレンダ Another Horizon | VN | 67%-76% |
| 本好きの下剋上 2 | LN | p100‐113 (24%-27%) |
July 16th
| Title | Type | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| 月の影影の海 上 | Book | p13‐35 |
Reading a physical book for once! It feels somewhat easier and quicker than reading on kindle (some of that might just be psychological, but also it does have the benefit of me no longer having the compulsion to double check the reading of words that I already know the reading of, but you know, just to make sure…)
7月15日 (月)
(1000 words) 谁生活得更美好 (Pg 1-7/34)- キングダム 2 (38-64%)
- ヒラヒラヒヒル
7月16日 (火)
- (1000 words) 谁生活得更美好 (Pg 8-14/34)
- キングダム 2 (64-76%)
- アンダーグラウンド (5-7%)
- ヒラヒラヒヒル end Ch.
Chinese “graded” reader has full Pinyin, and I feel it’s a good idea for a previously Kanji learner. Vocabularies not expected to know yet sometimes appear, but are given per-word translation and rarely a sentence example.
7月17日 (水)
- (1000 words) 谁生活得更美好 (Pg 14-20/34)
- キングダム 2 (76%) - 3 (11%)
- 京都寺町三条のホームズ (11-19%)
- ヒラヒラヒヒル
July 17 | Home post
VNs today - half chapter from Loopers and a little from Clannad on Switch, and a little from Island on PC.
Reading VNs on Switch vs PC feels like two different mediums in some regards. On Switch, I don’t look up much. I read the sentence in Japanese, try to understand the kanji and the general meaning, and switch to English to check my understanding. On PC, I use Textractor and look up every word I don’t understand. Extensive vs intensive reading. Both are valuable, even though they are different!
i just finished reading volume 2 of 気になってる人が男じゃなかった! The art is super pretty and unique and the story interesting enough, highly recommend. I noticed that I struggled significantly less than I did with volume 1 so I’m proud of myself! Now onto ウスズミの果て as it’s been on my tbr for a couple of months and its wanikani bookclub just began this week so I thought it’d be a perfect opportunity :DD
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Title | Progress | Length | Type |
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コンビニ人間 (29) | 109 → 120 | 171 | 小説 |
Re-adjusted page counts to work with my new layout and more standardized metrics. Pretty good reading day on top of that, too!
Saw the kanji for 啜る for the first time today, funny lookin lil guy
Home post // July 17 
・本好きの下剋上 18 (11.2% → 15.0%) | 7.6k characters (29643 / 197k char.)
Didn’t read any yesterday due to headache. So tired in the evenings lately.
Lookups (6)
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 蔵書 | |
| 目録 | |
| 口を噤む | |
| 静電気 | |
| 爛れる | |
| 督促 |
July 17th
む today. I noticed it has a lot of overlap with the subjunctive in Latin. Fascinating how such different languages can have such similarities in their grammar.
My Japanese tutor mentioned this (somewhat) recently released book about Latin influences in Japanese. Looked pretty interesting, so I bought it.
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望月光の古文教室 古典文法編 | L28? | p. 118-127・4% |
Day 17!
Real tired today, so I’ll keep it short – moved slow, but in spite of it, managed to drag to my usual 20k characters in Chaos;Head.
So it’s not just me doing that constantly, haha.
July 17
- よつばと! 1 Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.
Getting sad that I am finishing this soon. Will be a while until I can order the rest of the volumes. Holding off for another day to read the final two chapters.
Surprisingly getting easier and did not have so much trouble here, even with the occasional dad-language that gets thrown in.
Small win: inferring the meaning of 競走 by just having known the two kanji independently. - いました!
- チワワの花すけ~帽子とマフラー
Love this dog sm… - メキシコの犬
Super jarring to come across a story explaining aspects of my ancestral culture in Japanese.
- チワワの花すけ〜お花見
Love him sm…
7月17日 | Home post
| Title | Today | Progress |
|---|---|---|
| LOOPERS | 2.3k | 46.8k (~36%) |
I need to stop reading and go to sleep 
18 July | Study Log
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Title | Type | Natively | Progress |
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世にも奇妙な商品カタログ 1 | light novel | 23 | 92% → 100% ( ) |
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悪役令嬢おじさん１ | manga | 28 | 39% → 55% |
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紡ぐ乙女と大正の月 1 | manga | 29 | 82% ( ) |
- Woo, finally finished カタログ. It’s still a bit above my comfortable difficulty level but that’s alright for a ‘challenge’ read. I think it’s my fifth book this year? I really enjoyed it, a lot more than 不思議駄菓子屋 which has basically the same premise, though not sure if that was just that I was doing this one at my own pace.
- Read a chapter of 悪役令嬢おじさん last night, which was my first ‘bonus’ reading for quite a while lol.
- I think I may start trying to read 逆転裁判 next (with the help of a script probably, since those are available online and it’s easier than fucking with a texthooker, plus I already have the switch version…)
July 17th!
4 more pages of the Orange Light Novel today - so I reached the end of Chapter 4 
July 18th!
Chapter 3 of 玉藻の恋 today. I’m reading it a little early since I’m reading with the ABBC and they dont start the first half of chapter 3 until this weekend - but since I reached the end of Chapter 4 of Orange now seemed like a good time to start my next set of bookclub readings.