Hey and welcome! After almost 5 years on WK and the forums I figured it might be about time for me to get my own little space where I can keep track of things and keep references to the most interesting sites on here. Which doesn’t mean you are not allowed to post here, of course
Studying
Reading Challenges
Past Reading Challenges
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2023 ☃❄ & what I read
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall 2022 🍁🍂 & what I read
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2022 🏖 ☀ & what I read
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Spring 2022 🌸 🌱 & what I read
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Winter 2022 ☃❄ & what I read
- 📚📚 Read every day challenge - Fall/Autumn 2021 🍁🍂🦝
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📚📚 Read every day challenge - Summer 2021 🏖🏖
- [2023] 多読/extensive reading challenge
Book Clubs
Ongoing:
- Home thread for 告白 🪑 🙊 - Reading - Natively Forums (Natively Mystery Club)
- ユートロニカのこちら側 - Informal Reading Group (with the Compulsive Readers club)
- "Flesh&Blood" - Bonus Material for Vol. 9 🏴☠ ⛵ (with F&B club)
- 世界から猫が消えたなら (If cats disappeared from the world) Book Discussion (as sauna book)
- 糞尿譚 💩 (Miscellaneous Book Club - unscheduled)
- Reading Murakami Haruki's 1Q84 (Intermediate/Advanced Book) - #146 by NicoleIsEnough
Upcoming:
- "Flesh&Blood" - Bonus Material for Vol. 10 🏴☠ ⛵ (with F&B club)
- "Flesh&Blood" - Bonus Material for Vol. 11 🏴☠ ⛵ (with F&B club)
- "Flesh&Blood" Vol. 12 - Pirate Series Reading Club 🏴☠ ⛵ (with F&B club)
- "Flesh&Blood" - Bonus Material for Vol. 12 🏴☠ ⛵ (with F&B club)
General Book Club links:
- Advanced Japanese Book Club // Now reading: 四畳半神話大系 (The Tatami Galaxy)
- Intermediate Japanese Book Club // Now Reading: 僕が愛したすべての君へ
- Beginner Japanese Book Club // Now Reading: 古見さんは、コミュ症です。
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Absolute Beginners Book Club // Now reading: Ruri Dragon // Next: The Wolf of the Small Forest
- ‘Profoundly Weird’ Book Club
- Halloween Reading Club (never too early to nominate spooky books!) 👻 🎃
- Saikawa & Moe (S&M) Series Reading Club
- Reading Murakami Haruki's 1Q84 (Intermediate/Advanced Book)
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"Flesh&Blood" Pirate Series Reading Club 🏴☠ ⛵
- Master List of Book Clubs
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Comparison of Book Club Picks
- Book Club Weekly Thread Forum Post Generator(TM)
How to run a book club:
Other Pages around Reading
- Resources for Starting to Read Japanese Content
- Your 2021 Reading Résumés - #43 by NicoleIsEnough
- How I discover interesting books
- To all avid readers out there: How do you discover new content to read?
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The BookWalker Freebies Thread
- My Bookmeter page: https://bookmeter.com/users/963616
Book Prize Reading Challenges
- The Akutagawa Prize Reading Challenge - Read: 5
- The Naoki Prize Reading Challenge - Read: 2
- The Honya Taishou 本屋大賞 Reading Challenge - Read: 4
Listening Challenges
Kanji
- A list of kanji with common components that aren't Wanikani radicals
- Special kanji words derived from other words
- Most recent non-WK kanji you've learned?
- Say Something About The Kanji Above You
Japanese
Various pages:
- The Ultimate Additional Japanese Resources List!
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Quick Contraction Reference
- Things WaniKani doesn't teach you #1: 空 (そら) as a prefix
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/34841
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/35026
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/35302
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/32878
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/32971
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https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/37386
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/33759
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https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/33511
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Japanese proverbs with Pleasant-level kanji]
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My Shared Study Log for 2021
- On Consistency
Dictionaries
- Symbols: https://community.wanikani.com/t/monolingual-dictionary-corner/58250/33
- Kokugo Dictionaries as Tools for Learners: Problems and Potential (PDF)
JLPT
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/49866 July 2021
- https://community.wanikani.com/t/x/49866/207 (link to mock tests)
Forum Stuff
Recommendations for Reading
- Professor Layton game series (puzzles/detective), e.g. https://www.layton.jp/mysteryroom/?
- Zero Escape series
- Detective style VNs