Approximately 2.5 hours spread over these four days! Reliably sticking with 日本語コンテッペイ.
Yesterday was a bit of an uphill battle concentration wise, and I really struggled to focus for longer than 10 minutes. As a result I decided to try a couple of Slow Japanese episodes earlier today after I saw them mentioned in @feralfuton’s updates, as I thought they might be easier for me on lower-concentration days. However, I actually found these too slow, and more of a struggle to retain focus on. This was very helpful in clarifying that speech potentially being too fast isn’t the cause of my concentration stalling, so I went back to テッペイ and balance was restored.
I do wish Slow Japanese had been around when I was studying for N5/N4 though as I really like the woman’s clear delivery and focus on a single topic!
I voted earlier, but could not add myself to the list. I tried adding myself, but the formatting kept getting messed up so I discarded my drafts. Could someone add me to the list as well please?
As for my listening:
Finished Pimsleur Level 2 Lesson 7 (30 minutes). I am currently on a 13 day streak.
I also like that she’s into heavy metal and horror movies! So those episodes are always a treat. I admit after some time I started increasing the speed on Spotify after they felt too slow, 1.25 or 1.5x is perfect as of now.
I didn’t even think of increasing the speed, thank you!
I might try that this week actually, as one of the episodes I listened to today (picked at random) was titled something like ‘My favourite Japanese band #’ (either 2 or 3, I can’t recall) and then she went straight into talking about Boris and describing the dynamics of their sound, which I was not expecting. Totally on board for other music episodes if that’s a recurring thing?
1月4日:
Watched the next episode (ep 3) of Kotaro lives alone. Still enjoying it, not understanding as much as I like but enough to get an idea at least of what’s going on and consider it valuable practice (and enjoyable content) so that’s the important thing.
Definitely. I remember a few episodes about going to music festivals, and another one about how metal music has health benefits. A few episodes about favorite bands mixed in here and there
1月5日:
Watched the 6th episode of the Teasing Master Takagi-San live action series on Netflix (with a couple of stops and starts ,about 25 minutes), it’s almost done unfortunaty, but definitely enjoying it and kind of feeling the emotional weight in it. Also listening to music as usual.
Had an absolutely miserable session on Pimsleur yesterday (got almost all the new prompts wrong) and had no motivation to do it today. I pulled through and repeated the lesson and now I’m on a 14 day streak.
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Reliably sticking with 日本語コンテッペイ.
