I don’t know for how many hours I’ve read today, but in the afternoon I started getting tired, My reading speed slowed down considerably. I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve felt tired to point of not having energy to read anymore. こんな限界あったっけ？kind of feeling. Made me nostalgic for some reason, hahaha.
Summary: July-August
I’ll continue posting throughout September, but I want to make a summary of the last two months. I’ve read Honzuki vol. 17-22 and a volume of manga. Total Honzuki pages: 381+381+403+359+377+405 = 2306. Approximately 255 pages per week. That’s an increase from the July summary where the pace was 230 pages per week. Nice nice
August 31
Read a tiny bit of FMA (I need to catch up a bit) and some nhk easy news
September 1
Busy weekend so I’ve only read a bit of nhk news, I need to get back into the manga reading habit.
But I’ve mined almost 100 more words from news only! I have a rule where I only mine/add a word to the SRS if the sentence is strictly n+1
I haven’t posted in a while, I guess I’m somewhat burned out of learning japanese currently. I maintained token amounts of reading every day, using Satori Reader, but not in a very healthy way (in the last month I’ve been more sleep deprived than usual, and on top of that I’ve been reading in bed when I should have been sleeping). To combat that behavior, I’m not going to continue the challenge in the off month. I’m planning to use this month to prioritize sleep, and finish FMA (I fell behind in the book club) and keep reading LOOPERS when I have time earlier in the day. Thank you for all the people here, I just read the posts from the last few days and I already feel the motivation coming back
I think for this challenge season I focused a bit more on listening than reading, but I made major gains in my prose reading and finished two children’s novels! Over the course of reading them, especially with trying out extensive reading with Goosebumps, I feel that my reading speed increased and my comprehension of sentences as one unit increased a lot. I’m noticing a big difference in feeling like I’m reading a whole sentence, rather than just one word at a time before I move on to the next.
I also read from 39% → 55% of japanese HP. I initially assumed I would focus more on that this time around, but ended up focusing on paperback reads instead. The more kanji I learn, the more approachable HP will be as a paperback read, so I may try that soon and see how it goes. Reading easier children’s novels still helps a lot with my comprehension level of HP. I’ve noticed improvements every time I’ve gone back to it.
And that’s all for daily updates from me (even though I fell off at the end there), keep reading everyone~!
I feel like my reading stamina has increased drastically. I don’t really get tired while reading Kiki, it’s the time constraint that makes me stop for the day. I can read about 8~10 pages from JJK before I start to get tired. For reference, in spring this year I could barely get through five pages of 同じ夢を見ていた in one day.
A brief bit of 逆転裁判 before work… talked to a witness and was introduced to a new witness! Who… annoyingly speaks in partial katakana english… because he’s a prat
Finished the latest ほろ酔い! Gave the author’s notes a shot (I habitually skip them): I was wondering why there was such a large break between volumes and it turns out it’s because the author had a baby lol.
opened the world of reading manga on my e-ink e-reader with e-ウスズミの果て, for some reason thought it would be subpar. guess i’ll never come back, amount of paper on my shelves sometimes scare me
my eink reader has been a godsend, no more getting blasted in the face with light by my ipad and hopefully i can keep or reduce my shelving over time. what did you go with?
Bought me Pocketbook InkPad 3 Pro few years ago, been a blast bookwise
Recently looked at the yen price and was like whoa, cheap stuff from Japan, bought some stuff, but delivery plus customs was a bit too much to do it on a regular basus even now, and was like Wait A Second
Also tried to check how japanese books look on it and was a bit disappointed that the text was being shown horizontally, but some hacks and voila! now it even has 縦書き (installing custom reader app and for japanese books applying a patch that rotates the page plus installing the rotated font XD sounds silly but I was amazed that it works so well)
also i want to mention that i dropped 逆転裁判 some years ago on like 6th case (before delving into japanese) and after your posts now I also consider trying to do the whole trilogy in japanese at some point!
Well done everyone on completing the challenge! Enjoy the beautiful habit of reading
I’m so happy you’re enjoying it and sticking with it! Keep going!! Also impressed that you find time and energy for other VNs at the same time! I realized here that Book Clubs are great to help me accomplish things I didn’t know I could, but once the pace is doable for me I have a hard time following several stories at the same time, I prefer to go all in on one thing until it’s done.
You have a pretty tough and demanding job!! I know the sadness and frustration of not being able to read as much as you would like (it’s actually one of the reason why I’m not joining the challenge anymore), but hang in there, and the resting days go a long way for the learning too, so in a way self care is also doing its work for being able to read more! Good luck!
Hello all! I’m very sorry for missing the official last day of the challenge. Life has been crazy insane lately.
For everyone interested in extending the challenge, please carry on.
For everyone waiting for fall, it shouldn’t be any trouble for me to run and I’ll make sure to have fall’s thread prepared and posted in the next 2-3 weeks. Happy reading!
I’m a bit wary of my ability to read ever single day right off the bat, so I’m going to use September to start building that muscle with a little more forgiveness and ease for days missed
I just got back from a trip to Portland where there is an Asian superstore + bookstore I’m obsessed with! I want to get into super easy chapter books, but- the wall, to me, was a mass of illegible spines giving no indication of reading level or topic…the next section over was children’s books (as in what you read to a child who can’t read, or is just starting), and all the rest was a smorgasbord of manga I was at a loss and don’t like asking for help apparently, but I did magically stumble across this after an entire hour in the store!!
It’s a bit more juvenile than I was originally going for, but I really do need to start being more honest with myself that I’m gonna struggle too much with a chapter book and burn out quick if that’s how I kick things off
(I must also admit that I already have a bunch of Japanese books of varying levels and just can’t seem to be bothered to read them. This has little to do with the language and just my poor habit of collecting books I neglect )
I’m just reading Satori Reader at the moment. Like you, I have shelves of books beyond my current reading level but am hoping to tackle them soon. Your book looks promising - be interested to hear how it goes. I’m all for ten minute reading challenges!
That’s such a fun coincidence that you grabbed that, it’s a nomination over in the Absolute Beginners Book Club . It never wins in the polls though so don’t hold your breath for it to be chosen. Enjoy the read!!
I’m going to join the other Beginner Book Club; I don’t consider myself an “absolute” beginner, yet cracking open this book has been humbling Not consistently studying (and for the past almost 2 years, basically not studying at all), really shines on you the ol’ “use it or lose it” standby Grateful to be able to dust off the cobwebs with this easy reader. And maybe one day I’ll be humble enough to admit how absolute beginner I really am
Also, thanks to Wanikani, any book beginner enough to not include kanji are exceptionally more difficult for me in other ways
Continuing my investigation in 逆転裁判. New witness is a real piece of work … I had intended to stop reading a few stations before but I ended up being drawn in by the story, which is always nice.
Started something I’ve been meaning to read for a while, こういうのがいい 1. Fairly different to my usual fare - raunchy-ish young adult slice-of-life, loads of dirty jokes, casual sex and the like, treated very matter-of-factly which I really enjoy. But despite the copious slang (ピーピ ＝ 彼ピピ ＝ 彼氏 … this took me a few chapters to realise) it’s surprisingly readable at my level (finally), which is quite nice.
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Granny Girl Hinata Vol.2
1/5 cases
45% → 100%
(Du) Exchanging a Leopard Cat for a Prince (4/43)
I was at a loss and don’t like asking for help apparently, but I did magically stumble across this after an entire hour in the store!!
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Enjoy the read!!
Grateful to be able to dust off the cobwebs with this easy reader. And maybe one day I’ll be humble enough to admit how absolute beginner I really am 