You can have a look on learnnatively and search for anime by difficulty level. Anything from about level 16-23 that’s relatively slice-of-life should be more approachable in terms of vocabulary compared to more complicated stuff
https://learnnatively.com/search/jpn/videos/?min=13&max=19&leveltag=n4
This was the first anime I found relatively comprehensible when I was getting into listening
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| Gachiakuta S1 | 11 |
| Nihongo Con Teppei for beginners | 18 |
| Kubo-san wa Mob wo Yurusanai | 2 |
| Ado songs | 51 |
Welcome to the listening challenge!
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First things first, thank you @Lisaveeta for reminding me of this thread.
I’ll be joining this daily listening challenge for the first time by doing my first listening challenge ever since I began studying Japanese. I’m not a complete stranger to Japanese only content but I haven’t put much time into targeted listening practice so far and I wished to finally change that.
My challenge will last from April 1 to April 30 and my goal will be to listen to at least 70 hours of Japanese content with or without Japanese subtitles.
Depending on how this challenge turns out, I might continue listening to Japanese content daily throughout May too but I’ll make that decision around the end of April.
My list of resources will be updated throughout the month because I purposefully didn’t listen to anything of interest beforehand to be able to compare my starting and ending point better after I finish this challenge. I’ll keep trying out things and see what will stick.
Edit mid-April:
These are the resources I ended up using regularly:
Learn Japanese with Noriko (Podcast/Youtube)
Haru no Nihongo (Podcast/Youtube)
Sayuri Saying (Podcast/Youtube)
さくら通信 (Podcast)
sayak@ (Gaming Youtuber)
魔城ひなの❤︎ (Vtuber; also does Let’s Plays)
Great to see you joining!
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I’m going to try out one of these daily challenges for once, woo!! Excited to see what everyone’s listening to 
Teppei & Noriko podcast (my favorite)
Youtube (かほの登山日記, くが, 牛沢, 等)
N2 JLPT listening practice questions
Conversation hour at my library
Online conversation practiceFirst time joining. I’ll be joining the reading challenge as well as I got back from Japan a couple of weeks ago with some books and although I already got (barely) N1 10 years ago, my Japanese level is still far from my next best foreign language (English). I did study in English for a few years and lived in English speaking countries for more than 10 years so there’s that.
The only objective now is to watch/listen to something for more than 20 minutes. I am doing a lot of running and soon going to go back to the gym so I’ll listen to podcasts then. I want to watch more drama and anime but ideally I want to have Japanese subtitles, so for the moment I’ll exhaust what I have available on Netflix since I can get JP subtitles easily.
I think I’ll get through the first week just getting into the habit of listening + maintaining this log + looking for additional resources and inspiration from other challengers and past challenges 
I have the idea of adding 5 new words/phrases a day to an Anki deck, but I will see that when I get through the first week.
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YUYUの日本語Podcast (ongoing)
飯田浩司のOK! Cozy up! (ongoing)
Drama:
東京タラレバ娘
Anime:
SPYxFAMILY
2026年4月1日（水）コメンテーター：佐々木俊尚
Vol.433 日本語もルッキズムになってないかな？
第二話
Mission 38: バーリント・パニック/情報屋と〈夜帷とばり〉
Mission 39: 〈雷トニト〉を回避せよ / ■■■■の記憶I
Mission 40: ■■■■の記憶II
Mission 41: スキャンダルの裏側 / インペリアル・スカラーへの道
Mission 42: ママ友作戦
Mission 43: 白い嫉妬 / イーデン校バスジャック事件
Mission 44: 赤いサーカス
Mission 45: バスジャック犯を制圧せよ
Mission 46: アーニャのじだい きちゃった
Mission 47: オースティンの苦悩 / フツーの飲み会 / げつめんちゃくりく
Listened to a podcast for one hour while running. I can grasp the general idea of what is being talked about but I trip on some unknown words or expressions somtimes. The stock/FX section is a bit hard and I’ve noticed that the previous times I’ve listened to the podcast. I think that’s partly because of the large numbers being thrown around, the specific vocabulary and the speed at which the analyst is giving his analysis.
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4月1日(水)
The Bite Size Japanese Podcast
#677春の雑談！
48分
日本語でしゃべりまShow
#128 日本の印象
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Sayuri Saying
#308理想の家
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２０２６年４月１日(水)
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Satori Reader - Human Japanese Intermediate Extra Credit | 17 |
April 1 - I listened to Episode 56 of 4989 American Life (33分）
Home post // April 1 
・Kanae 新衣装配信 
#かなエイプリルフール
Kanae becomes エビフライばぶえ. かわいい～
Time today: 40m
Monthly total: 40m
Yearly total: 347h 17m + 40m = 347h 57m
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Busy first day training at work, almost 12 hours. Lots of よろしくお願いします and receiving 名刺.
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| Teppei and Noriko #593, #568 | ポッドキャスト | 57分 |
| 図書館の日本語会話クラス | 会話 | 1時間 |
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I listened to Teppei and Noriko on my walk to the cafe this morning, then on my walk this evening And at the library today, I chatted with a fellow student and native speaker for an hour which was very fun!
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It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t post late at night!
About 42 mins of listening | Total so far: 42 mins
Side note, I made a post back on the previous Winter Challenge thread asking if people wanted to revive the Speak/Write Every Day Challenge into a proper seasonal one again, but I’ve decided not to. It was a last minute post and there’s a currently existing Speak Every Day Challenge for 2026 with low interaction, so I’d rather people contribute to that thread (I’ve been posting there for a month or so!)
Home post!
Excited to start the new challenge 
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In terms of listening, right now I mainly listen to podcasts (often semi-distractedly) :
For this new challenge I’d like to watch more Youtube videos, which I think will make me focus a bit more on the content.
Day 2
4月2日（木）
Watched 30 minutes of 東京タラレバ娘.
Looked up あわよくば: 「あわよくば」とは、上手くいけば・運が良ければ・間がよければなど都合の良い未来を予測することを意味する表現
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Oh cool! I didn’t know that Running Channel Podcast. I started listening to the latest episode and I heard ６メジャーズ and that caught my attention as someone who ran his first majors in Tokyo recently How did you find it, why are you listening to it and what do you get out of it?
