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

Japanese Language Reading
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Title Today Progress
:fox_face: 玉藻の恋 1 chapter 47%

And a bit of 空の軌跡, though I spent a lot of time estimating character counts. Based on those estimations, I read approximately 350 characters of 空の軌跡 today, for a total of 7500ish.

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August 4th

Title Type Progress
本好きの下剋上２ Book p157‐p164 (39%‐41%)

August 5th

Title Type Progress
本好きの下剋上２ Book p164‐p169 (41%‐42%)

Oof, not much reading for the last couple of days, unfortunately. Some of the stuff I read last month were more page-turners that engrossed me so I ended up reading massive amounts per day. I also played a decent bit more of 黎の軌跡II and a bit of fate/stay night. I’m travelling soon so that will either mean significantly more or significantly less reading, we’ll see… [last time I was on a flight I did a lot of reading, but this time I’m flying internationally overnight so the objective is to try to sleep, but there’s a good chance I’ll fail miserably at doing so]

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:bookmark: Home post // August 6 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon:

・本好きの下剋上 20 (30.0% → 40.0%) | 18.7k characters (74911 / 187k char.)

I dozed off once for a good 5 min. I think I’ll go to sleep early tonight :sleeping:

Lookups (14)
Word Notes
堅牢けんろう
凋落ちょうらく
暇乞いとまごい
心こころを砕くだく
流布るふ
煮にえ湯ゆを飲のまされる 信用していた者に裏切られてひどい目にあう
(“here, drink this boiling water, it’s delicious”)
開墾かいこん
恭順きょうじゅん
神輿みこし
噎むせる
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異存いぞん
まざまざと
生霊いきりょう
利便性りべんせい
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August 6th

:sparkles: Home post :sparkles:

Just reading a weeeee bit ahead of the 変な家 book club schedule :see_no_evil:
:books: 変な家 L28 p. 31-51・8%・4953 char
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August 6 | Home post

2500 characters from Island :desert_island: plus a little from Loopers today. I read Loopers on Switch with minimal lookup (switch to English when I don’t understand something) and Island on PC with Textractor. One extensive reading and one intense reading. I’m glad that I have the tools to do both!

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End of 1st week in August update:

Continuing to read one episode of 壁の穴 and one chapter of Human Japanese Intermediate.

Finally got an explanation I can understand about the differences between 使う and 用いる. From HJI, chapter 38: “The difference between tsukau and mochiiru is that tsukau is a little more conversational, whereas you’ll see mochiiru a lot more in compounds. Mochiiru is also a little more tool-oriented.”

Example sentences given:

この会社は風車を用いている。
あの人は色々なものを用いて、音楽を作っている。

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August 6

Type Done today Progress
ふしぎ駄菓子屋 3.5k characters Finished
雨でも晴れでも Chapter 5 Finished
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7 August | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:judge: 逆転裁判1 game ??? 0/5 cases :arrow_forward:
:coffee: 焼いてるふたり7 manga 24 0 → 12% :arrow_forward:
:clap: 鋼の錬金術師 1 manga 31 20% :pause_button:
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯１０ manga 30 86% :pause_button:
  • Continuing 逆転裁判1. Despite the deluge of new words I feel like I’m actually getting somewhere. I had forgotten how fun a VN is with the animation and music… let’s gooooooooo!!!
  • Started 焼いてる二人７ as a palette cleanser and to calm down a bit.
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:kick_scooter: back to my home post

08月06日

:star: Club Title Type Progress
:derelict_house: グースバンプス 恐怖の館 prose 96 → 102/189pgs
:owl: ハリーポッタと賢者の石 prose 52% → 54%

:sleepy: Good night.

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おやすみなさい :sleeping:

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7th august

home post

: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 30-x
:gem: ブレイブリーデフォルト game N/A some journal entries
:milky_way: raven strategem eng book N/A 75-101
:black_nib: aDoAJG grammar N/A pg 164-170
:eye: 寄生獣(きせいじゅう) 4 manga 25 whole volume

aDoAJG entries were 言(い)わば and いわゆる

this nhk article

words that stood out

バーロー - moron, nitwit. yomitan doesn’t like this but googling brings up a 馬鹿野郎(ばかやろう) connection and a whole lot of detective conan
湾曲(わんきょく) - curve, bend, crook
鋲(びょう) - rivet, tack, hobnail

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August 6
Not much, just a couple of web pages about Amigurumi in japanese because I want to get into using japanese patterns(cute amigurumi is one reason I picked up crocheting)… I mined quite a bit of specific vocab though!

August 7
Blazed through the rest of chapter 16 and chapter 17 of orange! One specific page of ch.16 got me all teary eyed on the train…

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Today: free-read Chap. 27 of よつばと！ Vol. 4. This chapter was a bit tougher but her つくつくぼうし costume is so cute…

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Q3 of 2024 | Week 6

8月5日 (月)

  • :cn: (Du) Lord Bao’s Butterfly Dream (5-6/13)
  • 京都寺町三条のホームズ (36-39%)

8月6日 (火)

  • :cn: (Du) Lord Bao’s Butterfly Dream (7-8/13) :butterfly:
  • 京都寺町三条のホームズ (39-44%)

8月7日 (水)

  • :cn: (Du) Lord Bao’s Butterfly Dream (9-10/13)
  • ヒラヒラヒヒル end Ch.

Not much focused Japanese reading first half of this week. I also noticed that I can’t read unvoiced on-screen text (on YouTube) sometimes (so ofc pause).

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:bookmark: Home post // August 7 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon:

・本好きの下剋上 20 (40.0% → 46.6%) | 12.4k characters (87 322 / 187k char.)

I keep dozing off even with my eyes open, it’s like I’m still reading but nothing is entering my brain. So for it to enter my consciousness I have to read out loud so I don’t drift off to dreamland. It feels so stupid, it shouldn’t be like this. Maybe I should stop forcing myself to read and just go to sleep.

Lookups (4)

高騰こうとう
一過性いっかせい
遠心分離えんしんぶんり
死しにざま

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August 7th

:sparkles: Home post :sparkles:

Sometimes I set out to read a bit, only to find some fresh bug in my novel reader app, get distracted and spend the next few hours tinkering with it. Today was such a day. I ended up squeezing in the last pages of Teasing-Master Takagisan to maintain my streak though!
:white_check_mark: からかい上手の高木さん 2 L17 p. 121-153・22%
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Home Post

Title Today Progress
:crossed_swords: 空の軌跡 ~350 characters ~7800
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August 7 | Home post

2500 characters from Island :desert_island: today too. Not reading that much lately, but a little reading is much better than none!

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August 7th!

4 pages of the Orange Light Novel today - I reached the end of Chapter 5 :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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8 August | Study Log

:question: Title Type Natively Progress
:judge: 逆転裁判1 game ??? 1/5 cases :arrow_forward:
:coffee: 焼いてるふたり7 manga 24 12% :pause_button:
:clap: 鋼の錬金術師 1 manga 31 20% :pause_button:
:rabbit: ダンジョン飯１０ manga 30 86% :pause_button:
  • I finished the first case of 逆転裁判! OK so it’s a tutorial case, but I hadn’t realised it was so short (it’s literally about two cross-examinations [尋問] and answering two or three multiple choice questions). Still, it feels really good. And again I’ve achieved an overarching goal early lol. Guess I’m going to just keep on keeping on and treat this as my non-club study project.
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