#I’m also thinking of picking up some mythology themed vocab decks because I tend to gravitate towards those kinds of series

[benkyoutobentou]

32 Days of Productivity Reading もう一回！: Day 4

Before: I have to confess… I almost (ALMOST) cheated in my reading spinner wheel today. I first rolled BASARA and my immediate thought was that only two series over four days was kinda boring and I do what I want, so I rolled again. But then as I thought about it, I figured that I should stick to the rules, even if I made the rules and it doesn’t matter. So today, I’ll be reading volume four of BASARA. I don’t think I’ll read an entire volume in one day like last time, but we’ll see how far I can get

After: As expected, I didn’t get around to finishing my volume today. Instead, I finished season one of the 神様はじめました anime (it was very good). I was also chatting with a friend who’s learning Spanish and she sent a little meme about language learning that placed me solidly in B1 territory for Japanese. Of course language proficiency isn’t easily categorized and certainly can’t be solidly tested by a single picture, but it did make me realize that maybe I should start trying to study vocabulary a little more often, since that’s my main weak point. I also realized that I’m immensely unfamiliar with the CEFR scale and have been interpreting its levels all wrong (after my friend made a comment that being at B1 level is not “only” B1) but I guess that’s what happens when none of your main target languages are European (Sorry German, I’ll focus on you one day).

Anyways, back to reading. I read 183 pages of BASARA today, which means I have just about 150 pages left in the volume. I have no doubt that I’ll be able to finish it tomorrow, especially with how good this series is! I just can’t put it down once I start reading.