Today’s vid:
Voice-over of a trip to Mt. Fuji during autumn. Listening went okay, I think I understood most of it, but then appeared the ultimate boss of all mumbly old guys.
Glad to hear that you’re finding the vids helpful! 
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Home post // Feb 15 
I never intended to watch this show, but here I sat all evening watching 7 episodes of Frieren with fren because classmate told us to watch it so she could have someone to share her trauma with 
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２月１５日 (home post)
a wee bit hungover, so took me a while to get moving today
Listened:
- スーパーワギャンランド2［RTAinGunma24-ISOBE］ - 1:00 - more RTA in Gunma vods, I’m branching out into games I don’t know. I’d even never heard of this one, and it’s kinda easy to see why. One of the common boss minigames is playing しりとり, which sounds basically impossible to localize. Game looks cute but probably not going on my buy list.
- ボルダージャパンカップ2024（BJC2024）女子決勝 - 2:10 - bouldering japan cup womens finals. I realized during the intro today that when I thought they were talking about the Paralympics yesterday, that they had really been saying パリ+オリンピック, cuz the games are in paris. That makes a lot more sense
This comp has no bearing on olympic qualification, at least according to some of the chat replay, but there’s a comp in 上海 next month that will - 四月は君の噓 ep 6 - 0:20
62.5/100 (+3.5)
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2月16日
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Listened to a Spanish dubbed episode of Friends which randomly popped up on my youtube suggested videos and Ordering in Japanese from Daily Japanese with Naoko. I understood pretty much everything in the video! Maybe because that was the most common situation I found myself using Japanese while living in Japan.
Also had my italki classes for Japanese and Spanish yesterday and today respectively. Almost caught up to MNH grammar lessons where I had paused from last year and today’s Spanish class was purely conversational talking about home and music. My teacher also made listen to a emo/rock song in Spanish, which was fun.
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Feb 15
Comprehensible Japanese intermediate and Nihongo-learning beginner. The topics in Comprehensible Japanese have become somewhat boring…
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oh, that explains it 
I just had that confusion recently reading something
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Lycoris Recoil ep 8
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Today’s listening:
E-bike adventures. This was a bit hard to follow as the audio seemed a bit muffled/quiet at times, but I managed to mostly follow along. It was helpful though that there wasn’t just one person speaking all the time, even if it was difficult trying to follow everyone’s different speaking patterns.
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2024-02-15 – 2024-02-16
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| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-16 |  Japanese from Small Talk |
Podcast |
 1 Episode 17 |
 50m |
| 2024-02-15 | Japanese from Small Talk |
Podcast |
1 Episode 16 |
40m |
Last two days bring two more episodes of Japanese from Small Talk, and remove one of the gaps in my listening progress to make the chart in my log table nicer 
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Feb 16
Comprehensible Japanese, Nihongo-learning, いろいろな日本語, Daily Japanese with Naoko, Terrace House
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I always listen every day for 2 hours or so but never post because it’s just native podcasts but last night I went to a get-together with 99 % of Japanese spoken, for about 3 hours and I understood what was being said (80%). I am so proud of myself because I was so lost last year when I visited, and the conversation had to be either translated, glossed over, or they used single English words.
I unfortunately didn’t speak in Japanese for more than 5 sentences but progress.
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2月17日
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Today I listened to Spanish Duolingo podcast titled “En el camino”. I also got some extra listening in yesterday of the previous episode titled “Helen Brown” while driving. Both stories were quite interesting and had a common topic of travelling.
I also listened to Comprehensible Japanese - Beginner Japanese, which I discovered this thanks to @hotdogsuplex ! I tried a few of the Complete Beginner videos but they were too 初歩的な for me. (I just relearned that kanji!) The first story from the Beginner Japanese playlist was the うさぎとかめ which was fairly easy for me to understand thanks to the clear and slow narration and the drawings. I found her 2nd drawing of the turtle kind of looked like a tick though. 
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２月１６日 (home post)
Listened:
- sasami heartgold - 0:10 - just a tiny bit while I was waiting for mio stream to start
- 【#１】完全初見のペルソナ３リロード！！！【ネタバレあり】 - 3:20 - mio persona begins! I was watching it live so I couldn’t pause to look stuff up basically at all, and she was playing just a bit faster than I could read. I still felt like I was following and understanding quite a bit, but when I eventually play it I will definitely be taking more time on some of these sections I wanted to watch the whole thing, but my brain started tapping out, I’ll come back to watch the rest of the vod later. She’s streaming p3r again tomorrow, too, but not sure if i’ll be caught up depending on how much longer she goes tonight
66/100 (+3.5)
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2月13日: Recovery of an MMO Junkie, ep 1-2
2月14日：Recovery of an MMO Junkie, ep 4-6
2月15日：Recovery of an MMO Junkie, ep ７-9
20-min conversation with a friend
2月16日：Sou sou no Frieren, ep 23
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Feb 14, Wed of Week 7 of Q1 2024
Daily brief x1
Rebuild #379 (0-0:34)
Feb 15, Thu
Daily brief x1
関西弁講座#5 from 日本語の森
Feb 16, Fri
狼と香辛料 Vol.1 (2:30-3:26/8h) Ch.3, first half
Feb 17, Sat
狼と香辛料 Vol.1 (3:26-4:27/8h) Ch.3 - just beginning of Ch.4
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２月１７日 (home post)
Listened:
- rest of mio’s p3r stream from last night - 2:00 - she went for another 2 hours after I stopped, I was not gonna make it that long lol.
- 四月は君の噓 ep 7, 8 - 0:40 - reached one of my favorite performances in the whole show this episode
+【#２】完全初見のペルソナ３リロード！！！【ネタバレあり】 - 1:20 - caught up in time to watch this one live too! but then had to go run and do some stuff, the rest of the vod will be there tomorrow still
It’s not jp listening, but I finally decided to get pocketcasts set up on my phone. I haven’t listened to any of my podcasts since I cancelled spotify last fall. I’ll have to look into finding some japanese podcasts on here, but in the meantime I listened to another handful of episodes from the history of japan podcast and finished off his russo-japanese war series. I’d already heard most of this from the russo side on mike duncan’s revolutions series, but it was fun to get more perspective. I already see ゆる言語学ラジオ, but that sounds like a challenge with no visual aid 
70/100 hours (+4)
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2月18日
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I listened to the accompanying voice over for Week 6 and Week 7 of the ABBC for Ruri Dragon and another story from Comprehensible Japanese - Beginner Japanese titled ３匹の子豚. The next video in the playlist is about karaoke so I’m pretty excited about that. I’m also really enjoying the voice over for Ruri Dragon. The voice actors are so good and the background music for every scene is perfect.
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Home post // Feb 18
ゆびさきと恋々 ep 7
This series is so sweet, まじで癒し系のアニメやん.
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2024-02-17 – 2024-02-18
| Date | Name | Type | Amount | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-18 |  シュンと日本語 |
Podcast |
 1 Episode 133 |
7m |
| 2024-02-17 | シュンと日本語 |
Podcast |
1 Episode 132 |
6m |
So basically just to tick the box while away from home, I listened to two more episodes of Shun. I think I’m now going to officially retire Shun from my list of podcasts as I’ve now moved beyond that level of podcast. Technically there is another 70 or so episodes, but sometimes when hiring, we talk about “10 years of experience, or the same year of experience 10 times”, and it feels Shun’s podcast has got to that stage for me. Still, it was very useful in getting to that stage, so I can still recommend it to listening beginners.
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