Mara's Study Log!

Another uneventful three weeks have passed…

  • I bought the Kiki audiobook because all the hiragana was driving me nuts. I never thought I’d be one to complain about that, but it takes a ton of energy to parse words with nothing but hiragana to go on. And I’m excited for the good listening practice!
  • I haven’t had any lessons or speaking practice lately.
  • I’ve been dealing with some crappy bureaucracy problems lately and that’s been getting me down and wasting lots of my precious energy, sadly.
  • But on the plus side, I’m almost ready to post my summary for Harta issue 84!

ETA: summary posted! (click for pictures, if not for the commentary haha)

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… And then, all of a sudden it was September???

Kanji count: 1294
Bookmeter total page count: 14382
(Not sure how to find my bookmeter page count for the year)

  • I’m on the last volume of はなにあらし :sob: Why must it end???
  • Reading bingo has fallen by the wayside. I was really looking forward to it, but then once I went all in on Harta it started feeling like way too much to keep track of all at the same time.
  • Summer was a roller coaster, and I only finished two issues of Harta in the last 2-3 months. Despite that, it seems like my pace is actually improving.
  • Kanji are going well. I added in a mini-review session in the evening and that helps the morning review sessions not be too overwhelming.

Book Club Lineup:

Easy-Peasy

Ongoing Intermediate

Intermediate Manga Club


(feels like one that might join とんがり帽子のアトリエ in the ongoing intermediate book club list once we finish volume 1)

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I didn’t mention speaking or writing skills at all in the above, but somehow I got inspired about that after posting anyway. I scheduled two italki lessons – one with a new-to-me teacher who does diary correction, and one with the teacher I’ve been studying with all along who is just so much fun to talk to.

So I now have two weeks before the first lesson to start writing in Japanese again!

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I don’t know but I was very sad when I was done with the series too.

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I haven’t finished yet, but I think it’s going to end before they start college :sob: Just give me another 13 volumes of Chidori at University and Nanoha baking up a storm!

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I would absolutely devour (hah) that series. :joy:

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One of the things I loved about the Kase-san series is that we got college life, in the followup series, as well. I should probably try seeing where that’s at now, one of these days

Still need to finish my はなにあらし reread, but no rush there

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Ooh, wait, what is the Kase-san series??

The first 5 vols are high school. Then the following ones are set during college years. Another series on my “I should reread soon” list

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Mid-October Ponderings …

I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. I don’t think the tipping point had much to do with Japanese study, but nonetheless, Japanese study is probably where the time/attention budget cuts will have to happen.

Possibilities:

  • Harta. :sob: Harta, you have been so good to me. But I may need to take a break. It’s not you, it’s me.
  • Book clubs? I could let myself fall behind, but I’m not sure if I have the heart to truly quit any book clubs. And as long as I’m still sort of participating, falling behind will probably bother me …
  • Kanji. I have made huge strides due to my goal of learning one thousand new kanji this year, but maybe I could change the goal to 900? After all, it’s not like I will stop adding kanji until I at least have all jyouyou kanji, I would just be slowing my pace a little bit. And review sessions have been getting kind of intense lately.

Slowing my pace on both kanji and Harta feels like it may be the correct answer.

P.S. Kanji count: 1354 (820 added)

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Thanks! I will definitely check it out at some point. :blush:

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