Participation Poll!
Please vote for the advent idea(s) you will be doing this December. Based on participation, some advents may need their own thread, so that we can try and keep chaos to a minimum (wishful thinking ).
You can were supposed to be able to vote for everything if you like (but I messed up the poll options), just remember you will need to do it daily for the first 24-25 days of December and time isn’t unlimited (I tend to forget this).
Note: I added a joke entry, but given this forum maybe it’s not so farfetched after all
Note2: Feel free to keep adding ideas until last minute (Nov 30). New ideas will have to get their own poll, but that’s okay.
- One Aozora short story or essay a day
- One manga sample a day
- One mystery short story from ちょっと探偵してみませんか | L30?? a day
- Read something from every country your target language is an official language in
- One story from a different country each day, regardless of language
- Learn/become familiar with a different writing system each day
- One story in a different Japanese dialect each day
- A random oneshot from Manga Library Z per day
- A random story from Tadoku / 두루책방 - Free (series) | L0-20 (Korean)
- One or more Yokai a day (from 怪しくゆかいな妖怪穴)
- One 百人一首 per day
- Start a new book club every day
Ideas so far:
- One Aozora short story or essay a day (Discussion thread here)
- One manga sample a day
- One short story from ちょっと探偵してみませんか | L30?? a day (Discussion thread here)
- Read something from every country your target language is an official language in
- One story from a different country each day, regardless of language
- One story in a different Japanese dialect each day
- Learning/becoming familiar with a different writing system each day
- A random oneshot from Manga Library Z per day
- Reading a random story from Tadoku / 두루책방 - Free (series) | L0-20 for Japanese/Korean learners wishing to dip their toes in the other language
- Reading an entry per day from 怪しくゆかいな妖怪穴 (Discussion thread here)
- Reading one 百人一首 per day
Resources for free literature in various languages
- Project Gutenberg (You can find languages under “Browsing Options”)
- Japanese: Manga Library Z, Tadoku
- Korean: 두루책방 - Free (series) | L0-20
- Spanish: A Guide to Spanish Websites to Practice Your Reading - Readlang Blog, OpenLibra | La Biblioteca Libre Online: libros y ebooks en PDF gratis.
- French: Ebooks libres et gratuits
- Mandarin: Mandarin Bean, HSK Reading (no audio), The best free Chinese reading practice for all levels | Hacking Chinese
This post is a wiki. Please add your ideas as you have them. When we get closer to the time, we’ll turn them into a poll to see how many people are interested in which ideas.