I started another damn novel… this time a visual novel called つい・ゆり ～おかあさんにはナイショだよ (thoughts here). Thankfully it’s an easy and fun one… not quite turn my brain off level, but easier to read even than クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった7.5 | L27 - so “chill and read” level
Watched some of the talking parts of the トゲトゲ 2nd anniversary live, and understood what everyone was saying, yay 
I felt like I read レトロゲ 2 ヤンマガ | L27 really smoothly in my lesson yesterday, with random katakana things again giving me pause, and still some kanji I misread or didn’t recognize. 距 was an interesting one. I’ve only really seen it in 距離, but on it’s own it’s describing a tubular nectary! And I finally got 茎 right (though got it wrong again just now, when I went to type it 
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My teacher again complimented me on my kanji knowledge… which like I do feel like I’ve improved a bit since 2 wks ago, so I could sort of accept a little better, I guess… I’m so glad that kanji show up in so many different places. Also it’s been nice doing jpdb and seeing vocab that I struggled with a month or few ago, and getting them right now.
I’m fairly confused on when to pronounce 間 as ま vs あいだ. I get it right often enough… but I guess I should take some time to read https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/16107/difference-between-間-あいだ-and-間-ま or similar. It’s not as bad as 触れるand whether it’s ふれる vs さわれる though. If I understand right, さわる is literally touch w/ hand/fingers, but ふる is more general? It doesn’t really matter for comprehension usually, so I’ve been lazy about working out the difference.
Finally read the prologue of 明日の世界で星は煌めく 2, with the audiobook, and that’s going just fine so far. Also considering listening to 幼なじみが絶対に負けないラブコメ | L27 when I’m not reading anything (like if I’m out or something). It seems basic/trashy enough that I don’t care if I miss parts, and listening-wise is probably pretty beneficial. I’d really love to get to a point where I can listen casually to L27+ material that I actually care about. Note sure whether I’ll mark it as Reading, if I do… Maybe I should stick to the マリみて cds instead?
