#reading practice

[languagelvlup]

Even if no one is watching, the toilet god might be watching!

Please only flush poop and toilet paper.

If you dirty (the bathroom), the cleaning grannies will cry!!

[chicago-geniza]

salomé does the song of songs as a litany of similes phrased almost entirely in comparisons to modes of production & resource extraction within a vast trans-imperial trade network (jokanaan's lips are as red as coral fished out of the sea in one province, as red as vermillion mined in moab, & as red as the persian king's bow, which is painted in vermillion & tipped with coral, & we now know from where those decorative details were imported & how they were "produced"). oscar wilde is so cool...i know everyone focuses on the ~queer aspect but there's so much other stuff happening in this text too!!!

[gettingready2read]

Astronauts Zoom! An Astronaut Alphabet by Deborah Lee Rose

See how actual astronauts live and work at the International Space Station as you go through the alphabet from A to Z.

Skills

Print awareness

Narrative skills

Vocabulary

Practices

Reading

Talking

Extend this book with a video of a real astronaut reading the book from the International Space Station. Story Time from Space features different astronauts reading space themed books from space.

You will need: Computer/ device and internet.

Check out Astronauts Zoom!

[theawesomeaki-kun]

Felt tip pens and gel pens on some scratch paper, heavily inspired by an actual Polyphon advertisment from 1897. The 'fried oysters' bit was very Herlock Sholmes-coded

also hello, keep forgetting to post here but Currently doing an audio-only live dubbing thingy of The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles!

The Great Ace Attorney 1+2 LIVE READING / amateur voice acting practice🌸 AUDIO ONLY

Using Noire Blue's No Commentary Playthrough to read off of! Just for fun. Repeats of witness testimonies are cut straight to the direct obj

Just finished Adventures' Case 3, would be happy if you tuned in.

※Please just imagine it as some kind of… cheaply-made, old-timey polyphon disc playing in the background while doing other things like chores lol

[study-korean]

김성춘 / 연꽃의 노래

가만히 귀 기울이면 진흙을 밀고 물 위로 꽃송이 벙그는 소리 들린다

뜨거운 햇살 속으로 서풍 불어와 연잎을 흔들어도 어디선가 들려올 님의 목소리 기다린다

덧없이 흐르는 세월 애닲은 그리움이 달빛처럼 스며오는 날 나직히 노래하련다

이 세상에 와서 사랑하고 노래하고 그리고 또 무엇을 할까

삶의 질곡 굽어진 모퉁이마다 숨겨같은 노래를 지팡이 삼고 건너 창 틈에 스며드는 달빛에게 내 노래 들려주련다

[onigiriforears]

Sept. 2024 Seitokai NOVEL Book Club | 君は月夜に光り輝く

Starting in Sept. 2024, the Seitokai Book Club is splitting into two (2)--a manga book club and a novel book club. We've decided to do this to better service our members.

After a tough vote and a tie-breaker, our inaugural Japanese Novel read for Sept. 2024 is 君は月夜に光り輝く. This book follows two classmates, one of which is diagnosed with a terminal illness that causes her skin to glow under the moonlight. She glows brighter as her time of death nears. This book has currently been graded at an upper intermediate/N2 level on Natively.

Come join us in the discord server! We can't wait to see you.

Get some more info below:

What if I've never read a book in Japanese yet? I'm not confident in my skills. That's fine! Not only do we ALWAYS have a group vocab sheet that we collectively (and anonymously) add to, but we have ongoing discussions about whatever book we're reading. That means you're free to ask questions, send screenshots, rant about a character or anything like that. You'll definitely find me asking about certain grammar points or if using a particular set of kanji for a word changes the nuance in a particular sentence.

What's the goal of your bookclub? Well, we're interested in fostering confidence in reading in your target language without feeling that you have no one to turn to. Our server has people of all levels of fluency, meaning that there's always someone who can answer your question. And if we can't, we have people we can reach out to ask. We won't leave you hanging!

You don't seem to choose books I'm interested in--how can I change that? Well, we take suggestions and vote as a bookclub for what we'll be reading next. If your book doesn't win the first time you submit it, try try again! A lot of our books have been suggested more than once before finally winning. Don't be discouraged! And now that we have two Japanese book clubs, you don't have to worry about your novel suggestions competing against manga suggestions.

I can't afford a copy of the book. Message me on here, discord, or instagram. Or send a message in the bookclub channel of the server saying that you need a copy. Someone will help. We're aware that Japanese learning resources are not available or readily accessible in multiple areas around the world. We all want to help each other thrive at meet out target language goals.

More questions that I didn't answer here? Message me on here, discord, or instagram! Or @tokidokitokyo!

Hope to see you there! Server | Studygram | Server Instagram

You might see some familiar names from tumblr in the server 😉🤗 We don't bite and you can watch in live time as we scream in agony over book characters, obscure kanji, and plot holes in any given book that we're reading.

[goodplan-ipromise]