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!

February 10th: ノルウェイの森 (上) pg.266 - pg.302 Finished! Think that’s novel number 3 for the challenge and number 5 for the year, assuming I remember how to count. I had more time than expected to read over the last few days around touristing. I still have the second volume to get through now as well, but I’m counting them as two books because, well, they’re 2 books. I’ll start with volume 2 when I get home in a day or two. Very good novel. Reading it again in japanese now reminds me that it’s a quite un-murakami-ish novel, compared to his later stuff. Also, thankfully all the bits I don’t like as much are in the second volume, so I haven’t got to those yet. It’s also my highest level novel completed so far as according to natively - but it’s probably not the actual hardest. The gap between level 28 and 32 isn’t drastically bigger than any potential rounding error it feels like, and knowing the source material knocks it down a few pegs. Anyway, onwards and upwards. Great pace for the year so far!

home post 10th feb :snowflake: only a small amount of psycho-pass, i’m struggling to focus a bit today. as i have in previous challenges, i’m using a randomiser to help me get through my digital backlog and it gave me this forgettable but nicely drawn isekai manga adapted from a LN. the main character is a cat-person (with upsettingly human hands) and doesn’t have godly powers, which makes a change from isekai’s usual schtick. read the only three chapters of it i have, so it’s not going in the table. edit: finished girl, woman, other, and what an excellent book. gah. emoji book pages read :question: 日本語にほんご間違まちがい探さがし 15-19 :crossed_swords: 龍(りゅう)が如(ごと)く維新(いしん)！極(きわみ) x :rose: psycho-pass novelisation 84-90 :woman_curly_haired:t6: girl, woman, other 405-end today’s nhk article was this one (kids trying out running a こども食堂(しょくどう)).

Amit’s Reading Journey Hi everyone, this is my first ever reading challenge, I am thrilled to become more active in the community and of course improve my Japanese skills! I would put myself around N5+ level at the moment, but I’ve set out to read and improve nonetheless. Anyhow, best of luck, success and fruitful reading to anyone reading this, stay blessed :3 (also, if anyone could help me figure out how to create awesome hyperlinks and dropdown lists in here it’d be awesome!) Here is my Natively for anyone who wants to add me. Feb 月火水木金土日 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 Mar 月火水木金土日 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 My goals with this My goal with this challenge is to hone my reading ability in Japanese, and naturally understand the ‘casual’ construct of Japanese, and obviously to sort of test my limits or put a threshold of where I’m standing at right now. It’s quite surreal to think that I’m able to read in Japanese, and *mostly *understand what I’m reading, so my goal is to truly enhance my ability in reading, improve my grammar, vocab, and obviously immerse myself further. What I'm reading For what I chose to read I am going with ホリミヤ, I don’t have a specific reason, but its either that, Chainsaw Man or Vagabond, which I think will prove way more difficult to decipher.

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hyperlinks you can either highlight over the text you want to turn into a link and just copy+paste the link you want like that, or you can click this symbol [image] in the bar at the top of the draft box when you’re making a post and fill in the information it asks for. for dropdown lists, i assume you mean these? Summary nothing to see here, sorry which you make by clicking on the cog symbol [image] and choosing ‘hide details’ (you can also do it with markdown/html but that’s uh somewhat out of my wheelhouse :sweat_smile: ) good luck with your reading journey!

Hi!! firstly, thank you so much! I appreciate you going out of your way to do this <3 I was lucky enough to stumble across this thread: [image] Post Formatting Guide Tips & Tricks If you are seeing this thread, I’m no longer with you. I’m making this thread as a guide for future forum users who may not know how to properly use and format their posts. I know there are a lot of tech savvy people here but I imagine there are many who don’t know how to format their posts using code. Since you can use Markdown, BBCode, \LaTeX and HTML, there is more than one way to format your text and this can get confusing. Anything you need is most likely in one of the helpful links below … so I now know all the tricks haha :smile_cat:

:stars: Home post :snowflake: February 10 Had trouble focussing today and decided to end the session after 20 minutes even though I would have had another 10-15 minutes at my disposal. Title Chapter Time Progress :leaves: 薄桜鬼真改風華伝 :cherry_blossom: Chapter 3 20 min 60 text boxes / ~1500 characters

February 10th - Home post One chapter of ふらいんぐうぃっち plus a little Aokana VN today. It’s a long VN and I’m a slow reader, so it will take many months to finish it. I do enjoy reading it though!

:bookmark: Home post // February 10 :snowflake::rabbit: ・引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 (81% → 100%) That was very fun and entertaining! Love me a silly romcom. 4/5 stars. I’ve gotten my hands on the sequel and read the prologue of it, so just a tiny bit: ・引きこもり令嬢は話のわかる聖獣番 2 (0% → 2%)

[image] nKaplan: so I now know all the tricks haha :smile_cat: Hidden tip (probably) not in the thread: Long dropdowns are easier to edit if you break the formatting by taking away one of the brackets while editing and adding it back when you’re done editing. [image]

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Hi!! firstly, thank you so much! I appreciate you going out of your way to do this <3
I was lucky enough to stumble across this thread:

so I now know all the tricks haha

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