Alyβs first ever listening challenge! 
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I have decided to join this challenge a month late as inspired by @javerend ! But unlike your ambitious and inspiring goals, mine is going to be a tad bit more relaxed. 
(All the best to you on your mission to 100hrs!!)
Similar to what Iβm doing for the reading challenge, this is going to be a multilingual one. The goal is to listen to another foreign language every day. Since Iβm travelling to Japan in March (the first time since I moved out a year ago!), Iβll be primarily listening to Japanese and some Spanish once or twice a week. Of course if I have time, Iβll do both!
Planned resources
- Satorireader episodes - currently reading Sakura and Suzukiβs long distance relationship and I plan to listen first before I read
- Voice-over videos - currently reading Ruri Dragon and thereβs a cute voice-over video that I also want to watch and listen to before reading the weekβs pages
- Pimsleur Japanese / Spanish - Iβm not sure if this is technically counted as listening or speaking but either way, I gotta listen before I can try to speak
- Duolingo Spanish Podcast - kindly shared with me by @fallynleaf (thank you very much!). These are bilingual short stories in Spanish.
- Maybe some other podcasts in Japanese?
Still debating whether or not I should count watching anime or listening to music but I feel like Iβm not intensively (or is it extensively?) listening when I do both.
Wrap up
Although I started a month late, Iβm pretty happy with the 1 month of consistent practice I was able to do. I really think it helps a lot with my comprehension skills. As I mentioned in my post for the last day, I plan to continue doing listening practice for Japanese and Spanish (and maybe Korean) everyday with a minimum of 5 minutes of listening per day per language. I noted that I especially got a lot of listening done when I had days of long commutes. I donβt often have them since I work remotely so Iβll have to think of other ways.
Hereβs a summary of february and what I listened to:
- Listened 29/29 days in Japanese
- Listened 9/29 days in Spanish
- Listened 2/29 days in Korean
- Discovered a bunch of listening sources both for Japanese and Spanish!
