I watched this cute cat video, and the その後 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQFvEzs5dRA
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I read 50 pages of 赤髪の白雪姫
I think I’ll read a kids novel after I finish 赤髪の白雪姫
Wow what a nice video!
I’m currently reading my first Manga in Japanese. I bought a lot of Mangas in Japan in order to force myself to read more because frankly, I’ve not been consuming enough native material and there’s no excuse.
I’m getting fatigued after 3-4 pages.
Is this normal?
How do you guys deal with it?
Does it just get better with time?
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Is this normal?
When you’re starting out, yes.
How do you guys deal with it?
If I get fatigued, I switch it up. My goal is to not burn out. I like to have one harder read, and one easier read that I can bounce back and forth between depending on how much effort I feel like putting in.
Does it just get better with time?
Yep, the more you read, the easier reading gets.
I’ve always neglected listening and after taking a past JLPT test for practice/ability measurement it really kicked me into gear to get my listening where it needs to be (taking N1 in December and I’d definitely fail listening if I took it right now). Right now it’s super tedious and takes me a long time to get through things when I’m making sure I actually am able to hear and understand each line before I move on, but I have experience going through this process with reading, so at least I know from experience that it’ll get better the more I do it.
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Congrats! First manga is a huge step 
What did you choose? Have you a bookclub to follow along with? Those were a huge help when I read my first manga.
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I don’t think I’m allowed to post that here. It doesn’t contain nudity but it’s tagged ecchi so I’m not sure if it’s against the rules. But better safe than sorry… unless the mods say it’s OK.
It’s a romcom, randomly found it in a book store and bought it (second hand, even) because the language seemed simple and it has full furigana.
I have zero story spoilers so idk what I’m getting myself into
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Oh, if it’s too ecchi, there might not be a bookclub around that already read it 
You can look it up on natively, though. To see how it’s rated and if there might be a bookclub for it.
If you need help, I bet you can censor panels and ask here for help
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I recommend getting postit flags for new words, and not looking them up until you finished the chapter.
I’ll read a page, then look at the picture, guess what’s happening, then re - read it if I’m stumped.
Yeah, stamina comes with reading.
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Today I watched 蛍火の杜へ
without subtitles.
Then I rewatched the whole thing with English subs to see what I missed and I’m proud to say I got every single plot point the first time 
despite obviously not understanding every word.
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I finished book 3 of 赤髪の白雪姫, watched more sushi raman videos, read 1 chapter of Inuyasha. I added some new words
見やがれ:見て[失礼の命令]
商売繁盛[しょうばいはんじょう]:利益[祈ること]
てめえよくも: how dare you
忘れるわけなかろう:ぜんぜん忘れない
at language exchange, I brought this as an example. I was dissapointed at how many people said they study with duolingo.
I had a Performance test this weekend.
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I sat down and forced myself through 43 pages of the aforementioned manga.
First without lookups, then I went through it again and looked up everything I didn’t know.
I feel like it’s already getting easier to keep reading
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I watched two episodes of 夏目友人帳, first one with Japanese subs- then just listening Yesterday.
Today I hung around the 公民館- community center from 9:30-4pm.
I saw an art exhibition, lion dance, and went to Japanese class. When it was time to book the room for Japanese for next week- I could mostly follow, but it was harder because so Tired.
If you live in Japan, I highly recommend attending your community center.
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I watched “When Marnie was there”, no subtitles.
While I got all major plot points (to the extent of predicting the ending before it was fully revealed), one of the more emotional conversations at a higher speed went past me mostly.
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I’ve been reading この素晴らしい世界に祝福を！ as my “easier read” (I like to have one book that’s more of a struggle that I can learn more from and one I can get through without too much effort), so I did the JP Audible trial and started listening to the first audiobook a couple days ago, been following it easier than I expected to. Think this is the most enjoyable listening immersion method I’ve tried so I’ll probably start paying for the subscription after this month.
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I’ve never been a big fan of the ghibli movies - but they’re all rated low difficulty on natively so I’ve been doing a marathon lately.
today I watched: 借りぐらしのアリエッティ
really starting to like them after all
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I’m still reading book 1 of Inuyasha and book 4 of 赤髪の白雪姫 。I added some mining cards Yesterday. I don’t like mining much, this is how I mined them. It’s not the best way, but if anyone else is putting off mining you can try it [I’m N3]
I’m tutoring and I want to tell my students to mine, Which inspired me to mine too.
mining method
- I postit note flag words in Inuyasha or red hair snow white
- I make an anki card on my phone with Expression [sentence]
Reading [I type the brakets myself]
Meaning I look up on Weblio Thesaurus [it is annoying to copy paste on mobile
]
Word
I also have b{color: Magenta;} on notes css tab so bold changes font color
And new steps to add native Audio
3) I have a subs2srs deck on a local profile
4) this weekend I searched the word in the card browser and move to an ‘export’ deck
5) I imported the exported deck in to my main account. I copy over the Expression and Audio feilds from subs2srs to the cards I made in step 2, and Delete the subs2srs card
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Finished book 1 of Inuyasha. and mined 20 words
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Still steadily watching Digimon and I feel like I’ve gotten better at understanding lately Yesterday I went to a weekly Japanese discussion group for the first time since June (September has been really busy) and was actually able to follow to main gist of what was being said in native conversations. Still missing all the details unless I’m being spoken to at a slower pace, but nonetheless really satisfying
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Was reading Japanese tutorials and forums about creation of vocaloid songs, and it was quite easy language-wise speaking.
Another things is that it’s so much work to make at least something work on my Linux machine, so I don’t know if I want to do it now 
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