Chimmsen's slow and cozy Japanese journey

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#162

After reflecting on my reading list this past year, I really think it was a good idea to binge-read all those easy manga :smiley: All those manga that were rated mid to upper tens on natively really gave my reading a boost and feel very comfortable now.

So I decided to binge-read low twenties now! :sweat_smile: Really, it’s the only reasonable choice, right? So my new to read list now looks like this:

  • ぷにるはかわいいスライム | L21 I love slimes, even though this series can be a bit questionable sometimes :sweat_smile: it’s surprisingly easy. I still remember trying to read it directly after reading chis sweet home, it was a desaster :sweat_smile: now it’s a casual read with not too many look-ups. I’m already in volume 2. I only own 7, though? must’ve been a while, since I bought those ^^

  • ホリミヤ | L23 Still the very best high school romance in existence (though feel free to recommend me an even better one :D). I saw the anime already, instantly bought the manga, thought it was still too hard to read and kinda forgot it in my reading pile. But now is the time to devour all those 17 volumes :smiley:

  • よふかしのうた | L23 I know nothing about this one, but it was a recommendation by my husband, so I’m sure I will love it :slight_smile: I got 17 volumes and I thought that’s all, but the natively page shows me 20 books :sweat_smile: well, worst case is buying some more when I see the finish line ^^

That will be around 40 volumes of manga in the low 20s range :sweat_smile: I wish I could add more light novels, but I only have the orange light novel, two more volumes. I’ll be reading those, too, but they seem like they wont even make a dent inbetween all those manga :sweat_smile:

Anyway, I’m looking forward to read them all :slight_smile:

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#163

I’m still pretty new to Bunpro and the community, but I felt like I had to leave a message here.
I read most of your log, and I’m really impressed by your consistency and how you’re making slow but steady progress. I’m trying to keep up!

Best of luck going forward!

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#164

Thanks a lot :smiley:

My journey is a bit random and probably quite inefficient, but I guess it proves enjoying yourself and just doing something will still lead to improvement :slight_smile:

Hope you’ll be able to enjoy your japanese learning journey for a long time, too :slight_smile:

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#165

Rather rapid, I would like to point :slightly_smiling_face:

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#166

at least I’m still very cozy, with all those books :slight_smile:

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#167

I did a reading recap, but no anime recap yet! To be fair, it hasn’t been a year so far of watching anime either with no subtitles or japanese subtitles. but I just finished the first season of sailor moon and thoight, why not do a quick recap :smiley:

while I tried watching my first anime in january when I started reading, I failed a bunch of times, and it only really took off in june. But I still tried once a month until then :sweat_smile:

to this day, i have around 180h of anime logged, which doesn’t sound that impressive imho, but the fact that i now can just watch easy anime, understand them, enjoy them and at least get some of the jokes is the real goal :slight_smile:

After my reading speed picked up at the end of last year, switching to japanese subtitles made watching anime way easier :smiley: I wouldn’t consider counting it towards listening, though. But i’m ok with that for now. Anime is now narrated text :sweat_smile: it’s insane kanji practice, though? Oftentimes i find myself understanding the word, looking at the kanji and thinking “ah! so that’s how you write it!”, which I never did while reading with furigana :sweat_smile:

Anime gives me now way more practice than reading does. not only is the textdensity per minute way higher, I can also easily watch 8 episodes of anime a day (well, not every day probably ^^) while i usually dont read for more than an hour. I can feel my sentence parsing skills and vocabulary growing quicker than before :slight_smile: And most importanly, it’s really fun :slight_smile:

For now, I’m finishing the sailor moon series. For more seasons with around 40 episodes each will keep me busy for a while :sweat_smile: The newer cardcaptor sakura season is also still on my watchlist, and after that? i dont even know yet, it will probably take a while until then ^^

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