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

1 August | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:judge: 逆転裁判1 game ??? 0/5 cases [approx 1/5 through case 1] :arrow_forward:
:guitar: ふつうの軽音部 2 manga 23 0 → 24% :arrow_forward:
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯10 manga 30 55% (:pause_button:)
  • 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.

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July 31

I read 25/31 days.

That’s 66 books and 1,191 pages.

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.

Good luck to everyone in August. :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

2024-08-01T02:00:00Z

@Jintor Happy belated birthday and many returns of the day!

:kick_scooter: back to my home post

07月31日

:star: Club Title Type Progress
:owl: ハリーポッタと賢者の石 prose 50% → 51%

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.

The worst :sob:

Yeah I’m feeling this currently.

27/7 10 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ

28/7 6 pages 老女的少女ひなたちゃん

29/7 5 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ

30/7 12 pages とんがり帽子のアトリエ (finished chapter 13), aDoIJG と言っても

31/7 8 pages ウスズミの果て, 4 pages ホリミヤ

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.

August 1

Type Done today Progress
RF3 2(?) heart events 2/5 bosses
クーク Chapter 6 6/8 chapters

Raven smiled at me. I love her. Marion is getting annoying, and her heart events are becoming repetitive.

July 30th

Title Type Progress
史上最強の哲学入門 Book p166‐p180 (55%‐62%)
月の影影の海 下 Book p181‐p247

July 31st

Title Type Progress
史上最強の哲学入門 Book p180‐p210 (62%‐72%)
月の影影の海 下 Book p247‐p267(END)

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?)

1st august

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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 20-22
:gem: ブレイブリーデフォルト game N/A some journal entries and a party chat
:older_man: one last song eng book N/A pg 34-67
:black_nib: aDoAJG grammar N/A pg 149-154

aDoAJG entry was 一方(いっぽう)

this nhk article

very tired today, not done much. didn’t read any one last song yesterday either so hopefully i can get back to it today

Today: p. 116-124 of よつばと! Vol. 4.

Vocab

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

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7月29日 (月)

  • :cn: (1000-word) 陈奂生上城 (Pg 14-19/41)
  • アンダーグラウンド (18-19%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

7月30日 (火)

  • :cn: (1000-word) 陈奂生上城 (Pg 20-25/41)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

7月31日 (水)

  • :cn: (1000-word) 陈奂生上城 (Pg 25-29/41)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル end Ch.

8月1日 (木)

  • :cn: (1000-word) 陈奂生上城 (Pg 29-36/41)
  • 京都寺町三条のホームズ (25-30%)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル

8月1日 | Home post

Title Today Progress
LOOPERS 5.2k 72.0k (~56%)

I am weak. I now have Volume 1 of FMA all Mokuro’d and ready to go.

August 1st

:sparkles: Home post :sparkles:

:information_source: 世界はラテン語でできている L28? p. 28-36・4%・6060 char

August 1 | Home post

More Island :desert_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!

:bookmark: Home post // August 1 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon:

本好きの下剋上 19 (38.9% → 47.6%) | 18.3k characters (100 064 / 210k char.)

Read a bit last night before going to sleep. Didn’t read so much after work, chatted with new neighbor while taking a walk together. Very friendly :smiling_face:

Lookups (6)
Word Note
牽制けんせい
能無のうな
カンペ カンニングペーパーの略, large sketchbook used during TV filming to notify the cast of special stage direction, relay messages, etc.
いぶかしい
口外こうがい 口に出して話すこと。他人に話を漏らすこと
質実剛健しつじつごうけん 飾りけがなくまじめで,たくましく,しっかりしている

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

July 31st!
2 pages of the Orange Light Novel

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 :sweat_smile:
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.

(Home Post)

Definitely need to read more consistently so hopefully I can take part in this:

Aug
01 02 03 04
05 06 07 08 09 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31
Sep
01
02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30
:book: Manga Pages
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 15: 27/27 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 16: 33/33 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 17: 24/24 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 18: 36/36 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 19: 44/44 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 20: 33/33 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 21: 38/38 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 22: 52/52 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: オランジ/orange ch. 23: 56/56 pages :white_check_mark:
:tangerine: :grapes: Pokémon Special Scarlet & Violet arc Vol. 1: 54%
:mechanical_arm: 鋼の錬金術師/Full Metal Alchemist ch. 1: 53/53 pages :white_check_mark:
:mechanical_arm: 鋼の錬金術師/Full Metal Alchemist ch. 2: 41/41 pages :white_check_mark:
:mechanical_arm: 鋼の錬金術師/Full Metal Alchemist ch. 3: 10/41 pages
:book: Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 121/644 pages

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August 1

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. :slightly_smiling_face:

2 August | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:judge: 逆転裁判1 game ??? 0/5 cases [approx 1/5 through case 1] :arrow_forward:
:guitar: ふつうの軽音部 2 manga 23 24% → 44% :arrow_forward:
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯10 manga 30 55% (:pause_button:)
  • 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.