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[haidouzo]

I am trying to tackle the figurative Elephant in my Japaneses learning room and face my arch nemesis Listening comprehension. So as much as my brain can take it I am trying to listen to Japanese Audio. I found this podcast on Spotify called SBS Podcast. I recently noticed how interviewers know to refrain from 相槌 and everyday people muddle the recording with it. This particular episode sounds like someone is playing a soft core pornography video in the background while the speaker talks about cooking.

豪州でも日本の優しい味を、重ね煮料理研究家・戸練ミナ (Part 1)

とにかく！ If you have any Japanese pod casts you like, please post them. My main squeeze used to be Japanese Pod 101, but they are so formal and easy to understand, I want something real to remind me I know nothing about Japanese.

Thanks!

[Kumirei]

@haidouzo

If you have any Japanese pod casts you like, please post them.

I posted this not too long ago

@Kumirei

@eefi

Does it really help? Doesn’t your brain just turn off when you don’t understand most of it?

It helps a lot! I’ve been listening to podcasts since shortly after I started Japanese and listening is my strongest field. I think it’s good to listen to normal Japanese intended for a Japanese audience so you get used to it. With time you’ll learn some words from it and start to pick out words you’ve learned from elsewhere. I always advocate starting to listen from the beginning since it’s so easy to do. It’s a passive activity so you can do it when commuting or doing chores or going for a walk, or whatever.

@cissymon

Yes please! That would be awesome

Here’s what I usually post when people are looking for Japanese pods

None of these are anywhere close to your level, but they weren’t close to my level when I started either. I think it’s good to hear normal spoken Japanese, even if you don’t understand it. Over time you’ll learn to recognise words, and you’ll understand what they’re saying. It might take a long time until you understand what they’re even talking about, but you’re still hearing all kinds of words and getting proper exposure.

Bilingual News
A young man and woman discuss whatever they find interesting in recent news. Often comes down to science news and politics. The man speaks mostly English while the woman speaks mostly Japanese. It’s one of my favourite podcasts, I just love the hosts.

Sokoani
Discussions and interviews about anime, completely in Japanese. Hard to understand for a beginner, but you get used to it with time and as you learn.

ひいきびいき
New to this one myself, but I’m really liking it. It’s basically two people, a man and a woman, speaking about whatever, it seems. Last ep was about yoghurt. It’s entirely in Japanese but the hosts speak quite clearly and not too fast, so It’s an easy listen.

edit: now that I’m not new to it anymore I have to say that it’s a lovely podcast about a man and a woman discussion whatever subject they feel like discussing (it can be literally anything).

[Syphus]

I just listen to the NHK news podcast, it comes in short bits and the same news tends to happen over and over again.

However, and most importantly, people talk about listening comprehension but it’s so hard to gauge if you’ve actually understood something, so what I like to do, since this is news, and generally much of the news also exists in English, is see how much of it I understood by trying to quiz myself on it and using the English news to check as answers / see what I didn’t understand.

[Jerred]

I listened to a bit of bilingual news today, until it was too fast and hurt my brain (about 2 minutes). I think I’m going to like it.