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

21st july

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didn’t read anymore of axiom’s end today but did read this horror short story about an ESL kid being made to play edutainment games to improve their english language skills and finding one that’s not quite like the others. was an interesting read!

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Total pages read this week: 72

Finished chapter 1 of ルリドラゴン and got half way to finishing chapter 2 this week! Also read some ちいさな森のオオカミちゃん 2 and 玉藻の恋. I’ve been taking it a bit easy this week, so just a handful of pages every day!

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July 21 | Home post

Just a few pages from こぐまのク-ク before bed today.

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22 July | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:purse: 紡ぐ乙女と大正の月 1 manga 29 90% → 100% :white_check_mark:
:teapot: 悪役令嬢おじさん1 manga 28 55% → 66%
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯10 manga 30 26% (:pause_button:)
  • Completed 大正月 finally for the IMC. I enjoyed myself but it was definitely in the challenge zone.
  • Another chapter of 悪役令嬢.
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:house: Home Post | :writing_hand: Study Log | Week 3

Resource Pages
:mage: Flying Witch Vol.2 0/160 → 29/160
:coffee: Shirokuma Cafe Vol.2 11/168 → 32/168
:older_woman: Granny Girl Hinata Vol.2 62/178 → 77/178
:ribbon: Shikimori isn’t just cute Vol.1 56 → 64

I’m gonna go back to daily postings cause weekly isn’t working for me :saluting_face:

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:kick_scooter: back to my home post

07月21日

:star: Club Title Type Progress
:derelict_house: グースバンプス 恐怖の館 prose 44 → 50/189pgs

Goosebumps has become very readable since the last time it was in my rotation. I think I’ve covered all the kanji that regularly are without furigana in this level of book now, so that helps a lot since it’s a physical read. I read till the end of the chapter and then read the next chapter (7 pages) without lookups and easily followed what was going on, but didn’t count that in the page total because I’m going to reread it tomorrow with lookups.

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July 21

Type Done today Progress
RF3 4 heart events ⅖ bosses
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July 21st!
Started reading Volume 3 of とんがり帽子のアトリエ today, read Chapter 12. :slight_smile:

July 22nd!
4 Pages of the Orange Light Novel, starting Chapter 5.

(Home Post)

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22nd july

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:sunny: Title Type Natively Progress
:beetle: 蟲師(むしし)外譚集(がいたんしゅう) manga 30s ish pg 88-192 (end)
:gem: ブレイブリーデフォルト game N/A some journal entries and boss 2
:space_invader: axiom’s end eng book N/A pg 120-190
:black_nib: aDoAJG grammar N/A pg 98-102

aDoAJG entries were が(はや)いか and が~なら

this nhk article

read the last three stories in 蟲師(むしし)外譚集(がいたんしゅう) all in one sitting which was probably a bit too much but i didn’t want to put it down! if you like mushishi and want more of the universe i can’t recommend this enough!

chapter 3 was by 芦奈野(あしなの)ひとし (aka the mangaka of yokohama shopping log) and was a short ten page thing of a person staring at the horizon. it was okay, i appreciate what it was going for and think it did it well i just wish it had been a bit longer.

chapter 4 was by 今井哲也(いまいてつや) and set in modern times, following a girl who wakes up in a version of shinjuku station with no memory of who she is or how she got there. very good! tied with chapter 1 as my favourite in the collection i think

chapter 5 was by 豊田徹也(とよだてつや) and was also set in modern times, following a girl who goes to a private detective asking him to find her mother who vanished. this one was kind of messy but i did still enjoy it and i like the concept it went with

words that stood out

蒸留(じょうりゅう) - distillation
(ちょう)じる - to grow (up), to be good at
末裔(まつえい) - descendant

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Might read some non fiction now, and maybe some more ひぐらし.

July 21st

Title Type Progress
サマータイムレンダ Another Horizon VN 92%-97%(END)
月の影影の海 上 Book p180‐287(END)
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Today: free-read Chap. 24 of よつばと! Vol. 4. A chapter about food and grocery shopping is much, much easier to read than the previous chapter about fishing!

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:bookmark: Home post // July 22 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon:

本好きの下剋上 18 (47.0% → 51.0%) | 7.8k characters (100 543 / 197k char.)

Today was really bad, had to visit the emergency room :melting_face: Feeling super unwell to the point where you’re almost passing out, not being able to go to work, feeling like you’re being a burden to your nice coworkers… It’s super frustrating. And it’s been like this since Thursday! I thought I was getting better yesterday and now it’s like this. Please let me punch something :durtle_stabby:

Lookups (1)
Word
稀有けう
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July 22nd

:sparkles: Home post :sparkles:

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Oh that sounds really worrying! Please take good care of yourself and get better soon! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::bouquet::sparkles:

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So sorry to hear you’re not well!

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July 22 | Home post

A few more pages from こぐまのク-ク before bed today too. Vacation, salt air, sea, sleepy! Not much time to read now, but that’s ok.

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Hope you feel better soon

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23 July | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:teapot: 悪役令嬢おじさん1 manga 28 66% → 78%
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯10 manga 30 26% (:pause_button:)
  • Another chapter of あく令嬢, should be done tomorrow I think. Alas, the bookwalker scan quality is really bad and a major hinderence in looking up words.
  • I’m in dire need of something easier in the Natively 20-25 range, but not sure what just yet, if I should read something I haven’t already read in English or not (since having to puzzle out the story also bumps the difficulty level)
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:kick_scooter: back to my home post

07月22日

:star: Club Title Type Progress
:derelict_house: グースバンプス 恐怖の館 prose 50 → 58/189pgs

Reread yesterday’s chapter with lookups, then read ahead one chapter (6 pgs) no lookups. I’m liking this strategy so far, it lets me do both types of reading in one session so I can learn vocab but also get a sense for how well my comprehension is coming along generally. Annoyingly not all the chapters are the same length though, so I’ll have to split up some of the longer ones.

Hope you feel better soon, and try not to stress too much about not being able to go in to work.

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23rd july

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:sunny: Title Type Natively Progress
:scroll: 江戸時代(えどじだい)大百科(だいひゃっか) 1 kids non-fiction high 20s? pg 0-8
:gem: ブレイブリーデフォルト game N/A some journal entries and more plot
:space_invader: axiom’s end eng book N/A pg 190-244
:black_nib: aDoAJG grammar N/A pg 102-111

aDoAJG entries were ごとし and 反面(はんめん)

this nhk article

i was weighing up doing more bookwalker manga or tackling my physical tbr and chose the latter cos i have to stare at them every day :joy: went with 江戸時代大百科(えどじだいだいひゃっか) 1 (of 6) which is only 47 pages but it’s like coffee table book size so there’s more text to get through on each page, as well as graphs and charts. also there was no reason to split it into 6 volumes imho but here we are.

it’s funny playing bravely default at the same time as playing yakuza 7 cos there’s such a huge difference in how quickly you can level jobs, bravely default is a bit too stingy for my tastes.

words that stood out

有数(ゆうすう) - prominent, eminent, leading, foremost

i hope whatever it is clears up soon and isn’t too serious!

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