Mukosei Seijyo:Today, I read ch3, which took me 40 minutes to get through despite the short chapter lengths. Hopefully it will get easier over time.
Initially, I used Google Translate to translate each paragraph or two after reading it, and noticed it yet again completely ignore part of the input.
I was pretty frustrated that GT is still so bad, and decided to try ChatGPT instead. At first, ChatGPT seemed to work better, but after a couple of messages, I noticed it
hallucinate a plausible continuation to the story that wasn't part of the input!
After admonishing ChatGPT to only translate the input, a couple of messages later it decided to only translate a tiny
part of the input instead:
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Ouran Host Club:In episode 9, the Zuka Club performs the Hitler salute, which was startling to see, as you would never see something like this in Western media. I guess maybe it doesn't have quite the same connotations in Japan.
Also, I was confused about the meaning behind the name "Zuka Club" or why it was supposed to be so funny and Jisho only turned up 図化, which didn't make sense. Fortunately, a quick Google search revealed that the name is a reference to The Tarazuka Revue. Also, their alternate name of The White Lily is a reference to the fact that "lily" is slang for Girl's Love in Japanese.
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Wanikani:IIRC, I had 356 reviews due this morning out of which there were four unguru’d kanji (one Apprentice 4, two Apprentice 3 and one Apprentice 2). I planned to just do a maximum of 100 reviews like normal, but decided to keep going until I hit the first level kanji in order to ensure that I at least continued to make progress towards leveling up.
As it turned out, I hit the first kanji after 116 reviews (so 126 in total including the wrap-up), and the first one I hit just happened to be the one Apprentice 4 kanji, and thus the one item that would level me up immediately.
Thus I hit level 51 this morning, and as with last time, decided to do two additional sessions of 100 each later in order to get a head start on the next level. This means I did a total of 326 reviews today, the most since June 15th, 2022, and the 10th most over the course of this entire challenge.
Also something weird happened when I leveled up - one kanji was already guru’d! 又 used to be very low level, like lvl3 IIRC, and so I presumably already had it guru’d when they moved it up to level 51. It’s pretty funny to see something already guru’d before you even start the level though.
Anyway, here's the level-up chart. This time, it took me 24 days, breaking the previous pattern. Previously, I'd been leveling up in under half the time as the previous level each time, but it seems that now it will decrease more slowly.
Sat May 13 2023:
Time spent: 64m L12
Reviews completed: 326
Reviews remaining: 125
Reviews in next week: 589 (+464)
Reviews in next month: 1070 (+481)
Level: 51
Current item counts:
Apprentice: 178
Guru: 334
Master: 380
Enlightened: 908
Burned: 6055