I finally finished the translation for the ガルクラ Billboard Interview… may I never be masochistic enough to do that again!!
Stayed up really late the other night the new chapters from カクヨム クラスで二番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになって (web novel), and while I of course have to look up words still, most of it feels so easy now… like 80-90% in “just read” territory. So I started rereading book 1, and found myself needing to look up a surprising amount of words. Also I’m reading it much more slowly this time around - I finished it in a day the first time, but I’m less than halfway through so far.. Actually the first time I got through 195 pages in day 1, this time 175 it so… So similar speed, but still.
Anyway It’s a mix of mood (I read faster when I’m super excited), and being very thorough about looking everything up - definitions and reading. I’m pretty sure I was much less careful about lookups the first time around (especially readings). But regardless of speed, my comprehension is way smoother this time around
義妹生活 | L31 is a comfortable upper range book, and I’m reading it w/ the audiobook to help with my September Listening Challenge, but it’s hard to totally keep up with in real time, bc everytime I run into a word I’m not sure about, the audio gets ahead of me, and then I have to pause it, and reread. In some ways it might be more beneficial for me to do without audiobook, but w/e. It’s also the part of the story that I already know from the anime, so getting through it faster is definitely the better choice, to evade boredom.
Anyway, lately I feel like I’m doing much better at just picking things up and reading them, in terms of comprehension (within a certain upper limit of course). Also getting comfier w/ a monolingual dictionary, tho I still don’t use it exclusively (in part because the UI for Akebi is just too good to give up, when doing paragraph to page long lookups). If I’m reading on Kindle app tho, I have it set to the monolingual dict, so I check that first. But for physical books, it’s easier to just grab the whole pg at once
Haven’t started the output exercises yet, but they’re on my mind… so one of these days soon!
