The English translation is below
約1年7ヶ月前にこのブログを始めて、先週100記事を書き終えました
ここまでお付き合い下さった読者のみなさま、本当にありがとう！
今、脳内では嵐の「感謝カンゲキ雨嵐』が回り始めています🎵
今回のような、日本語学習に関係ない記事まで読んで下さる読者さんは
きっと私と価値観の近い人達なんだろうと思っています
時々、1日に50記事以上も一気読みしてくれる人もいて
本当にありがたいことでございます
遠い国のどこかに、昔からの知り合いのように、会ったその日に
飲んで語れる人がいるのかもしれません🎶
2026年の最新のデータをGeminiに尋ねると、100記事に達するブロガーは
10％〜20％程度だということでした。私は頑張った側なんだ🎵
と思いましたが「イェーイ！」とか「Let‘s celebrate‼︎」のような高揚感は
全くなかったんですね。「まぁ、ここまできたしな」と、
自分へのご褒美に良さげなワインを買って
なんとか気分を盛り上げようとしたのでした
ブログ100記事とはいっても、歩みを止めなければいずれは辿り着ける
場所です。私にとっては、合格するかどうか分からない試験に受かった、とか
ランニングの大会で自己ベストを更新できた、の方が達成感は大きかったんですよ
だからそれに比べたら静かな実感というか、思ったより地味めなお祝いでした
私がブログを始めたキッカケは、ブログ1周年記念の記事で詳しく書いたのですが
自分も語学学習者として恩返しのフェーズに来たかな、と思えたからです
私も含めてネットを利用している学習者は、親切な誰かの作ったコンテンツの
おかげで楽しく学習できています。今度は私も発信者の側になってみたかった。
世界に散らばっているであろう、日本語学習者さんのために！
な〜んて言いつつも、たとえボランティアであっても結局は
「『誰かの役に立ちたい』という自分の欲求を満たすためなのだ」
ということを常に忘れないようにしていたので、淡々と記事を更新することが
できたのだと思います。
そして始めるからには、ブロガーの目標である100記事は書こう
と決めてました。継続することでしか見えない景色があることは
経験上分かっていたからです。それを初めて身をもって感じたのは
英語学習だったんですよ。一度知ると、ハマりまっせ〜♪
ブログを始めて変わったこと。言語化能力は格段に上がったことは実感します
「なんとなく感じていたもの」を言葉にできるようになりました
特に日本語のニュアンスを扱うような記事では
「日本人である私は、この言葉をどういう時に使ってたんだろう…？」
とか、お風呂でよくぼーっと考えていました
今思えばあの時間、嫌いじゃなかったな〜
意外なことに、発信って、外から見ると“アウトプット”なんですけど
実際にやるとかなり“内省”なんですよ。発信してるつもりが
自分自身を掘っている、というか
記事を書く前はそれなりにリサーチもするので
知識も増え、話題の引き出しも多くなったと思います
いつも生活のどこかに「これは記事になるかも」って視点が
住み着いてきて、日常をそのまま流さなくなった気もします
かつては気にも止めなかった、自国文化の再発見の旅路でもありました
100記事書いた今も、ネタが尽きたわけでもないし
しんどいとも思わなかったので、この作業は
私に向いているのかもしれません
1ヶ月以上前に「地震ソムリエ」という記事を書いたのですが
なんと！Google検索のトップページ、1番上に表示されていました！
「おおおぉ〜！」って気分でしたね
私と世界をつなぐ窓口が〜！っていう♬
大体週一のペースでコツコツ投稿していると
ドメインパワーもそれなりに上がるものなんですね
でもブログを始めて失ったもの。何かを続けるということは
何かに使う時間を減らすということ
それは皮肉にも、自分の語学学習の時間でした
ランニングやピアノのように、その時、その場でしかできない
趣味はちゃんと時間を確保したんですけど、スキマ時間でもできた語学が
なし崩し的に置き換わってしまい、自由に外国語を浴びることが
できなくなっていき・・・それだけブログに夢中になれた、
ということでもあるんですけどね
気がつけば語学力の衰えを感じ、焦りに変わりはじめました
100記事の区切りは、自分と発信の関係を見直す節目になりました
そして今、ブログを始める前の生活にだいぶ戻っていて
水を得た魚のようにスペイン語、英語をむさぼり読んでます
そして以前のように週一更新するのではなく
自分も成長しつつ、ブログを続けるにはどうすべきか
自分が心地よいと思える時間のバランスの落とし所はあるか
を探りながら、のんびり更新しようと思います
今日、ここまで共に歩んで下さったみなさまに
I started this blog about a year and seven months ago, and last week I finally finished writing my 100th article.
To everyone who has stayed with me along the way, thank you so much!
Right now, “Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi” by Arashi has started playing in my head 🎵
I think the readers who even take the time to read posts like this one — which have nothing to do with learning Japanese — are probably people who share similar values with me.
Sometimes there are readers who binge-read more than 50 articles in a single day, and honestly, I’m truly grateful for that.
Maybe somewhere in a faraway country, there’s someone who feels like an old friend — the kind of person you could sit down with, have a drink, and talk for hours the very first day you meet 🎶
When I asked Google for the latest 2026 data, it said that only around 10–20% of bloggers ever reach 100 articles.
That made me think, “Wow… I guess I’m one of the people who actually kept going 🎵”
But strangely, I didn’t feel any huge excitement like “Yay!” or “Let’s celebrate!!” at all.
It was more like, “Well… I made it this far.”
So I bought myself a nice bottle of wine as a little reward, trying to lift the mood somehow.
Even though reaching 100 blog posts sounds impressive, it’s also a destination you’ll eventually reach as long as you simply keep going.
For me, things like passing an exam when I wasn’t even sure I could succeed, or achieving a personal best in a running event, gave me a much stronger sense of accomplishment.
Compared to those moments, this felt more like a quiet realization than a huge celebration.
The celebration itself ended up being more modest than I expected.
I wrote in detail about why I started this blog in my first anniversary post, but the short version is this:
I felt like I had finally entered the “giving back” phase as a language learner myself.
Learners on the internet — myself included — are able to study enjoyably thanks to content created by kind strangers.
This time, I wanted to become one of the people creating and sharing something too.
Of course, I like to say, “This is for Japanese learners scattered all around the world!”
But even if something is technically volunteer work, I’ve always tried not to forget that, in the end, it also comes from my own desire to feel useful to someone else.
I think keeping that in mind helped me continue updating my blog steadily without becoming overly emotional about it.
And once I decided to start, I also decided that I would at least reach the classic blogger milestone of 100 posts.
From experience, I already knew that there are certain views you can only see through consistency.
The first time I truly experienced that was through learning English.
Once you discover that feeling… it becomes strangely addictive ♪
One thing that definitely changed after starting this blog is my ability to put things into words.
I can clearly feel that it has improved dramatically.
I became able to express things that I had previously only “vaguely felt.”
Especially when writing articles about Japanese nuances, I often found myself absentmindedly thinking in the bath,
“When do I, as a Japanese person, actually use this word…?”
Looking back now, I realize I didn’t dislike those quiet moments at all.
Surprisingly, creating content looks like “output” from the outside, but when you actually do it, it’s incredibly introspective.
You think you’re expressing something outwardly, but in reality, it often feels like you’re digging deeper into yourself.
Before writing an article, I usually do quite a bit of research as well, so I think my knowledge has grown and my range of conversation topics has expanded too.
At some point, this perspective of “Maybe this could become an article” quietly settled into my everyday life, and I stopped letting daily moments simply pass by unnoticed.
In a way, it also became a journey of rediscovering my own culture — things I once never even paid attention to.
Even after writing 100 articles, I still haven’t run out of ideas, and I never really felt that the process itself was exhausting.
Maybe this kind of work simply suits me.
More than a month ago, I wrote an article called “Earthquake Sommelier,” and unbelievably, it showed up at the very top of Google search results!
I remember thinking, “Woooah!!” for a moment.
Like, “This is my little window connecting me to the world!” ♬
I guess if you keep posting steadily about once a week, your domain authority gradually grows too.
But there was also something I lost after starting this blog.
To continue doing one thing inevitably means spending less time on something else.
Ironically, that “something else” became my own language learning.
For hobbies like running or playing the piano — things that can only really be done in that specific moment and place — I made sure to set aside proper time.
But language learning, which could be done little by little during spare moments, gradually got replaced without me even fully noticing it.
In a way, I suppose that also means I became completely absorbed in blogging.
Before I realized it, I started feeling my language skills slowly fading, and that feeling gradually turned into anxiety.
Reaching the milestone of 100 articles became a turning point for reevaluating my relationship with blogging itself.
And now, my daily life has mostly returned to how it was before I started this blog.
I’m devouring Spanish and English again like a fish back in water.
So instead of continuing to update every single week like before, I want to keep blogging at a slower pace while figuring out how to continue in a way that allows me to keep growing too.
I’d like to find a balance of time that genuinely feels comfortable for me.
And today, to everyone who has walked alongside me this far—
Thank you, truly.
