Continuing 逆転裁判。It think given my rate of progress I probably won’t mention it outside of the table outside of specific achievements, so if you see the play icon that indicates progress. Sampling of today’s words: 証人、凶器、失血死、解剖
Started ふつうの軽音部2, got through a quarter just reading casually, which is always nice.
Well, got a little depressed that one week and was hardly in the headspace to even read, and took me a while to get back into the rhythm of things.
Put a sizeable dent in the Todaku Free stories in the meantime since last I posted.
46% of Intermediate Japanese stories. ( abstract と言う everywhere…)
57% of よつばと! 2.
Ordered a set of 聲の形 and よつばと! and I’m excited for them to get here.
While I wished I’d have gone 31/31 for my first month, those 25 days of focused reading still helped anyway. It motivated me to grind WK a little more intensely. Internalized a lot of grammar structures. Found out I was a lot more prepared for reading after all.
Don’t think I’m ‘‘play Pokemon in full hiragana’’ levels of prepared, but it’s a work in progress.
If I just read 1% a day I will get to my first goal of 75% in this challenge. The read was actually feeling pretty breezy today but kept getting interrupted by having to do my job.
I’m kind of keeping up with 4-5 manga, and at least a couple of my clubs are technically finished or on hiatus so I can try to catch up/not fall further behind. I’d like to start the next IBC read next week so should try to finish something before then.
July Stats:
Pages read: 1272
Books finished: 5 (鹿の王3, このすば7, 鹿の王4, 月の影影の海 上, 月の影影の海 下)
Total books finished since I started learning: 45
Considering my overall goal this year was to reach 50 books read in total (having read 32 by the end of last year), I’m happy that I’m easily on track for that now (and that I kept it as a relatively modest and achievable goal). 2 of the books this month had already been started previously, so really I read closer to the equivalent of 4 books (and maybe something with and 上 and 下 should just count as a single book?)
失恋:しつれん: heartbreak
血相: けっそう: expression, looks
血相を変える: けっそうをかえる: to change expression/colour from emotion
ありゃ: oh; I’ll be darned
振られる: ふられる: to be dumped, to be given the cold shoulder
あんだけ: to that extent
てきとう: suitable, proper
元気づける: to cheer up
いいとこ: good thing; right moment
おませ: precocious
しょんぼり: downheartedly
おこる: to get angry
More Island today, 5000 characters. I really like the route that I’m on now. I want to get to the end so I get all the anwers, but I don’t want the VN to end!
August 1 | Home post
Read some Satori Reader stories that I’ve already read, did my ANKI DRILL and skimmed through random Young Animal issue I bought long time ago
also bought me more books that are Way Beyond My Comprehension Level: whole set of 魔女の宅急便 (this one is more or less okay but starting it will be a pain still), five volumes of GUIN SAGA (needed me more hills to climb someday), and first volume of 銀河英雄伝説 (someday…)
Also bought three volumes of FMA, hoping to try to join the club later, still above my level but Man Do I Not Care (also how do I check my checkboxes) nevermind
August 1st!
Another 2 pages of the Orange Light Novel
I was really pleased with myself that I’d built up enough stamina to read ~4 pages a day of this novel without it being a big struggle - so my body decided that it should punish my hubris by giving me an infection and a fever so I have the attention span of a goldfish
BUT - 2 pages is still good. A year ago 2 pages was a struggle, so the fact that thats now my “easy” amount of reading is a sign of progress too.
Chapter 12 of よつばと! Swimming pool chapter. Had some nice laughs. Spotted some recently learned WK kanji and words. I don’t know… seeing those fresh kanji and recognizing them… can’t explain it but feelsgoodman.jpg.
I’m starting to get better/more comfortable at spotting words in colloquial forms/(contractions?), too.
Like:
おめーも ➯ お前も
もっかい ➯ もう一回
I could be wrong with these, though…
The set of よつばと! manga that I ordered arrived today. Exciting. Nice to see I won’t run out of enjoyable reading material soon.
Another few minutes of 逆転裁判. Loads of words again, probably will just add the pertinent ones - 動機、援助、立証、入廷、証言、尋問。。。 so many legal terms… hopefully just front loading these. (Not that they’re that difficult and I expect to see them a lot, which is helpful tbh). Game is surprisingly easy to just… read now… which is quite nice.
軽音部2 is getting easier to read, though I didn’t bother doing any lookups for the last chapter because I was just kind of casually reading before bed.
Might read a 飯 chapter today, but perhaps more likely tomorrow.