(Note that when I say ānovels,ā I donāt make any distinction between regular novels, light novels, light bungei, childrenās novels, and short story collections.)
My 2023 goals were:
- Continue plodding along on WK (no goal for level, just that I keep progressing)
Apparently I started in the 20s (mid- to late 20s, but I didnāt write it down), and I made it to at least lv 39. I donāt think I reached 40, but I aināt checking. But there was the big overhaul earlier in the year that broke a bunch of scripts and made the UI gross, so I stopped using it online, and then a few months later it felt like the text size on TsuruKame got increased, which made it uncomfortable, so I stopped using that too. That was, uhā¦ a while ago. Iām waiting on Hakubunās iOS release to try that out. In the meantime, I havenāt replaced it with anything, though I keep adding stuff to my āadd to KameSameā bookmark folder in Shirabe Jishoā¦
So I did complete at least 10 levels this year, but I didnāt exactly keep progressingā¦
- Finish N4 on BunPro
Yup, very much did not happen. Iām at 104/177, and I keep forgetting to do reviews, and I aināt doing more lessons when Iāve already got 70+ reviews waiting for me.
- Audio practice!
Well. Iāve done some? I listened to 34 episodes of Japanese with Shun throughout the year, watched 4 seasons of anime and 1 movie without subtitles, there was one day where I listened to the (30-minute abridged) ęčŖ of ęę„ććććåć«ćå ć®ć©ćć¬ćæć¼ć 7 times in a row (I accidentally tuned it out pretty early and it just turned into background noise while I did other things, including readā¦ Auditory processing issues), and Iāve listened to various audio dramas, several of them multiple times. But mostly my listening amounted to songs, which. That barely counts.
Update: Oh yeah, I somehow forgot that Iām doing the Origami Advent Calendar over on WK and those videos have audio instructions, so Iām getting a not entirely insignificant amount of listening practice in this month.
- Finish at least 3 novels outside of book club picks (final stretch goal: 35 total novels)
I made this goal months before I first managed to finish a novel within a month, much less within a single week (my record is I think 3 days), so I kept adding stretch goals lol. Iām currently at 29 total novels, with 25 of them not having been read with a book club. So I met my previous stretch goal of 25 novels outside of book clubs, but thereās no way Iām meeting my last one this month. Thereās absolutely zero way Iām finishing 6 this month. The most Iāve ever managed thus far is 5. Iāll get 1, maybe 2 this month, but not 6.
- Read at least 125 manga volumes
I met this one in October (ended the month with 127). Iām currently at 162. Itās quite possible Iāll reach 175 by the end of the month, but weāll see. I have slowed down quite a bit this month so I donāt burn out before January.
2024 goals:
- Read 35 total novels
- Read a āclassicā novel
- Read 4 nonfiction books (may or may not count as novels)
- Read 175 manga
- Read all of the é»åć®ćć¹ć± main series in January (itās 30 volumes, so should be doable providing I succeed in staving off burnout) | stretch goal: read the two volumes of EXTRA GAME as well
- Listen to something other than songs at least once a month
- Make progress on BunPro (N5: 126/126 | N4: 104/177 | N3: 2/217 | N2: 3/210 | N1: 1/180)
- Get all bingos on my bingo board
Hum, I think thatās it. For the classic, I have ććć lined up, but I also have a few others. Depending how that one goes, I may go for a second. Iāve read a few short stories (Dazai and Souseki) so I donāt find it quite as intimidating as before, but Iām still very much intimidated by å¾č¼©ćÆē«ć§ćć lol so I doubt Iāll be touching that one for a long while yet.
