Welcome to the “Read Japanese Every Day” Challenge, Winter 2025 Edition! :snowflake::rabbit: Hello! Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re experiencing winter. It’s the perfect time of year to curl up under some blankets and read. For folks in the Southern Hemisphere… well you need something to take your mind off the heat, don’t you? So let’s get reading! This Season's Emoji Explanation This challenge’s emoji are pretty simple. [image] If you don’t have enough snow to make a snowman in Japan, this cute alternative is perfect and historical. Where does this challenge come from? Back in the summer of 2021, @Redglare had the great idea of a “Read Every Day” challenge, in which participants challenged themselves to read something in Japanese every day for 2 whole months. Since then and until winter 2024, @Redglare and @windupbird have hosted this challenge every season. Thanks to them, many of us have improved our Japanese and lifestyles! You might notice that I am neither a bird nor glare. I offered to take over the challenge since they’re quite busy (お疲れ様！), but of course they’re welcome to take it back at any time if they want to. I’ll do my best to keep up the encouragement! Please help us keep this a positive, encouraging, and fun space! Please feel free to bribe encourage fellow participants with cute pet and animal photos or recipes even. Archive of Past Challenge Threads Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 :beach_umbrella::beach_umbrella: Read every day challenge - Fall 2021 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf::raccoon: Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 :cherry_blossom: :seedling: Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 :beach_umbrella: :sunny: Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 :maple_leaf::fallen_leaf: Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 :snowman_with_snow::snowflake: Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 :cherry_blossom::tulip::blossom: Read every day challenge - Summer 2023 :sunglasses::sunny: Read every day challenge - Fall 2023 :scarf: :fallen_leaf: :maple_leaf: Read every day challenge - Winter 2024 :bamboo: :snowman_with_snow: :evergreen_tree: Read every day challenge - Spring 2024 :cherry_blossom: :dango: :seedling: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Summer 2024 :beach_umbrella: :watermelon: :cricket_bat_and_ball: Read Japanese Every Day Challenge - Fall 2024 :maple_leaf::chestnut::apple: While the name of the challenge is “Read Every Day,” you may have noticed that it also has a season attached. That’s because each challenge only lasts 2 months. Forever would be a long commitment. By having clear start and end dates, it becomes a much more manageable goal. At the end of the challenge, please consider what worked or didn’t work for you. Did you have fun? Then you can take a break or decide to keep going. Also, please don’t worry about starting late or not completing the challenge! Life happens. This is an open opportunity for everyone who wants to set some reading goals. Everyone is welcome. Some participants have even started tracking their reading in other languages. As @Redglare has said: This is a thread for people who: :bookmark: want to spend time reading a bunch :bookmark: want to improve their reading speed and comprehension :bookmark: want to hold themselves accountable and have a place to document their progress :bookmark: simply want to join in on the challenge of reading every day for two or so months :books: :books: To add onto that, this is also a thread for people who want to track or talk about their reading too. If you’d like a computer to do most of your tracking, please check out Natively. Time frame: January 1 - February 28 Again, late starts are totally welcome! Usually people will continue posting through March and some may give some updates even later. It’s all good! You can start and finish your personal challenge at any point during that time, and shorten or lengthen the challenge to the time period that works best for you. Personally, I usually extend my reading into the 3rd month since I find these challenges have been great at helping me reach my annual reading goals. As @windupbird has said Your reading materials can be whatever you want, be it manga, light novels, books, visual novels, magazines, graded readers, satori reader, Japanese webpages/blogs, or Japanese games - you name it, anything goes as long as it is something in Japanese :jp: :durtle_the_explorer: “Reading” can be interpreted creatively, if that helps keep you motivated - for example, some people have counted reading Japanese subtitles as reading some days. In general, we are a pretty flexible and forgiving bunch :wink: Need help finding something to read? Check these threads out! The News Reading Challenge - folks typically read the easy NHK article of the day or other similar articles from various apps The "news reading" challenge 🗞 The Immersion portion of this thread has a lot of great resources The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List! Reading the same book with others can be pretty motivating. It’s also easier to ask about grammar or vocab, so how about joining a book club? If you don’t want to join, you could always take it as a recommended book instead. A list of book clubs can be found here: Master List of Book Clubs poll Happy reading!

Home Post 02月20日 Type: Progress: :soccer: ブルーロック戦いの前、僕らは。潔・凪・蜂楽 Light Novel 70/208 :soccer: ブルーロック Vol 11 Manga 90 → 119/192 :pencil: ルックバック Manga 72/144 :heart: ゆびさきと恋々 Vol 1 Manga 61/176 Back to Bluelock

February 21st - Home post A few more pages of Zenitendo today. Not much left of the book!

February 21st: Malinkal - Home post :blue_book: Book Pages :stars: 一瞬を生きる君を、僕は永遠に忘れない。- L31 Novel pg.16 :book: お探し物は図書室まで - L29 Novel 74% :evergreen_tree: ノルウェイの森 (2) - L32 Novel pg.138 - pg.162 :tea: 月曜日の抹茶カフェ - L30 Novel pg.18 :books: 本好きの下剋上 1 - L32 LN pg.44 :coffee: この嘘がばれないうちに - L26 Novel pg.234 :leaves: 風立ちぬ - L41 Novel 32% :mag: 名探偵コナン 3 - L26 Manga pg.112 - finished :white_check_mark: Didn’t do any reading today until almost 10pm… that’s okay. Got a decent chunk done after that. Life feeling all a bit life-ish and too much. I got a lot of studying in earlier at work in amongst everything tho! Plus I finally am able to watch Netflix again now. Got some fun stuff tomorrow, then on Sunday and Monday I’m gonna grind out some reading.

home post 21st feb :snowflake: more psycho-pass, and it was the so it was really hard :sweat_smile: loads of technical terms and references to look up. not every day you see シナプス可塑性(かそせい). also the second significant diversion from the anime canon where there’s explicitly (as far as i remember anyway) emoji book pages read :basketball: real 59-x :question: 日本語にほんご間違まちがい探さがし 47-51 :crossed_swords: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く維新(いしん)！極(きわみ) little plot, mostly side content :rose: psycho-pass novelisation 186-206 :stars: the seven sisters 131-175 today’s nhk article was this one (houses).

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<–Prev 2025年2月21日(金) Book Type Progress Time ホリミヤ 2 Manga 32/175 (18%) ~30m Didn’t let that friday tiredness win over me and still read a chapter, willpower is everything :muscle:

２０２５年２月２１日(金) 今日、チーズスイートホームの第５２章を読んだ。

A few pages of Death Note. Today I’ve decided that it’s finally time to set up some kind of OCR, so that I don’t have to tediously type each sentence I don’t understand manually, and I don’t remember when I was this frustrated over doing something on a computer. I spent like 3 hours setting this up and nothing worked, but finally, I have something that I’m kind of happy with. Sucks that doing a thing that should be really simple took me this much time that I could spend on reading today, but it is what it is. Hoping to read more tomorrow. Edit: Nevermind, decided to stay up until 12:30 AM and read more. Chapter 28 finished. The OCR definitely helps a lot with looking up stuff faster so I’d say it was worth the hassle :slight_smile:

Home Post :books: Title Read Progress :cat2: スーと鯛ちゃん 3 ch 44 57% Just a little chapter to maintain streak so I could allow myself to focus on sorting life things.

2月21日 | :white_check_mark:: 1 LN, 1 children’s book, 15 manga vols ? Title Type Progress :index_pointing_at_the_viewer: 逆転裁判１Case 5 甦る逆転 game :arrow_forward: Part 2 Trial (Con’t) :guitar: ぼっち・ざ・ろっく! 2 manga (club) :pause_button: 20% :gem: 少女マンガじゃない! 1 light novel :arrow_forward: 30% → 40% Trial continues. Cowboy… is annoying as usual, but thankfully it’s more like [plot] [plot] [mystery] [incomprehensible cowboy saying] [plot] at this point and I just ignore the random Western stuff. The goddamn video came back but hopefully that’s the last of it since it feels like we’re nearing the end of the trial segment. Nearly finished the second story in 少女漫画じゃない but had to tap out before I could finish it

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Didn’t let that friday tiredness win over me and still read a chapter, willpower is everything

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