🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Spring 2023 🌼 🌱

13/05/2023 :man_fairy:t5: Home Post Link

resource: Japanese with Shun

no. of episodes: 1

thoughts: This ep was about morning routine. I found it a little easy to understand. Also super sad that my trip is coming to an end TT

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12/05/2023 :man_fairy:t5: Home Post Link

resource: Nihongo Con Teppei

no. of episodes: 1

thoughts: forgot to update yesterday’s practice aaaah, sorry for the double (and unorganised) update :sob:

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Last night I (finally) watched the second episode of Yoshimune Chronicle. This episode started right off the bat with mushy paper towel mouth man and I didn’t understand one word. Thankfully the lead, Yoshimune himself, does talk pretty clearly so I can kind of follow the conversation.

But then just when you think you might be understanding something in comes the yakuza thug brigade with incomprehensible rolling-R one-syllable grunting, so I got lost once more.

This episode had a Robin Hood kind of story going on, the grumpy doctor isn’t all that he seems, he is actually super doctor here to save the day from the corrupted rich guys. A shame there’s only two episodes, this is kind of fun, there’s lots of cheese and sillyness but it gets pretty serious all at the same time.

It’s kind of hard to tell if I’m improving or not, on one hand I seem to hear more words but on the other I’m still not that sure what everyone is talking about until I read the subs. I’ll have to go hunting for more fun things to watch.

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May 13, Sat of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

歴史 [61-63/90] - 明治と憲法・条約改正

Places and names

Also watched a science experiment, though I have to take attention to get most out of this one. Looking is difficult and I have to know most vocabularies beforehand.

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Summary Post

May 13th
What did I listen to?: Learn Japanese Naturally supermarket walk and talk
How much time did I spend listening?: ~13 min

The English subs were really annoyingly placed in this video, like I just wanted to look at the items to see what they were but the English subs were like…right there (and I was having a hard time hearing because supermarket noises) so my eyes got immediately drawn to them instead. -_- They should have put the Japanese subs on the bottom.
I need more recommendations for walking and talking videos, I’ve pretty much used up the ones on this channel :joy: I can tell my brain likes them, because this is by far the most consistent I’ve ever been with listening practice

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:cherry_blossom: Day 43, 5 月 13 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:mount_fuji: Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 25 - 26
Relisten, I think I got the gist of it this time. The problem was a part in the middle of episode 25 where he started to mumble incomprehensibly and said something about poltergeister??? I assume it was off-topic talk. He also spoke very fast in the last minute of the episode.

Episode 26 - Japanese people pronounce cereal how???

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May 13th!

Today I had a lesson with one of my tutors. He’s been traveling for work recently so its been a while since we had a lesson together so it was really nice to catch up. We talked about what we’ve been up to recently, and then also looked at some Japanese idioms together.

This evening I also listened to 2 episodes of JapanesePod101’s Lower Intermediate Series. One was about writing a postcard, which was interesting.

(Home Post)

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I know もしもしゆうすけ does vids like that if you haven’t seen him yet:

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May 14, Sun of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

日本語の森 debate on 空気読めない. Then, Commonly mistaken Japanese grammars | よく間違える日本語の文法7選 - YouTube, so I’ve found a new channel to subscribe to.

吾輩は猫である Ch.2 [3/8].

Parade 1 - 1-2, which is in 聴き放題. I also have bought the book a while ago. (And listened to a little of Parade 1 - 1 before)

YUYU on 言霊.

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14/05/2023 :man_fairy:t5: Home Post Link

resource: Nihongo con Teppei

no. of episodes: 1

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:cherry_blossom: Day 44, 5 月 14 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:hibiscus: Comprehensible Japanese

Because I had such trouble with てっぺい recently, I decided to go back to this series. The visuals help a lot and I find it personally much more fun to listen to.

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May 14th
What did I listen to?: もしもしゆうすけ four-character idioms in Yanaka
How much time did I spend listening?: ~10 min

Yesss this is exactly the type of content I was looking for, thank you @pocketcat :bowing_woman: This one was a bit harder than some of the Learn Japanese Naturally ones because the content of the talking is not really linked to the visual of the video, but that’s ok. Ngl, a few minutes into the video I was like wait I think I’ve been here, it looks so familiar and then I got kind of distracted trying to figure out if I had in fact been there (I have LMAO, I went back at the end and checked the name of the place, which I must have missed the first time) I did not know any of these expressions, my favorites were 危機一髪 and 十人十色 - I definitely appreciate the genius of yojijukugo more in writing than in speech though :joy:

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May 14th!

Today I watched the first episode of MASHLE - It had English subs because I couldn’t find it with Japanese subs. It was quite fun, I think I’ll keep watching it despite the lack of Japanese subs.

I also listened to an episode of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

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:hot_pepper: May 14

Played Zero Escape: 999 yesterday and today. Finished last weeks section and this weeks section therein. This weeks section was shortened by a bad ending.

Also visited a friend yesterday and they dropped a HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film - YouTube on me. One of those, “you’re into this stuff, right? you can understand this?” moments. I knew I was doomed right when the heavily stylized cursive kanji titles appeared. The dialogue is sparse but I caught none of the old man and only a few words from the mc. Deflating.
I brought my copy of ジム・キャリーはMr.ダマー just in case I happened upon a way to casually bring it into conversation so after Hidari we watched twenty minutes of Mr.ダマー. スッキリ.

Let words hit my ears from a random Edgar Allen Poe Japanese translation while on the road for a couple hours today. Hectic driving conditions. kripes

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Wow, that’s an amazing movie! I love how the characters look like wood carvings, and then all of a sudden something moves :open_mouth:
But yeah, it’s really hard to understand, I got maybe a third or less.

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May 15, Mon of Week 8 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

Parade 1 [3].

日本語の森 debate on 一人で食べる. Native’s speaking is still easy to listen to, but too low volume somehow…

随分便利な (what) か?

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:cherry_blossom: Day 45, 5 月 15 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:hibiscus: Comprehensible Japanese

A simple one and a challenging one. I especially liked the “guess who?” video. Having to solve a puzzle or a challenge is much more fun than listening without thinking.

It was also great for the many repetitions of the vocab “wear”: wear a hat, wear a shirt, wear a skirt, wear shoes… all these have different words in Japanese and maybe things like this exercise will make them stick better for me than what I tried before.

  • ()る - Bekleidung für den Oberkörper
  • ()く - Bekleidung für den Unterkörper, Schuhe
  • (かぶ)る - Kopfbedeckungen
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15/05/2023 :fairy:t5: Home Post Link

Thanks to @liveunderwater, I watched the video they tagged in their post, and also the Behind the Scenes of HIDARI: The Stop-motion Samurai Film. So so cool!!

But obviously, my listening skills are nowhere close to those videos lol. So I ended watching some random videos like “How Did You Become Fluent In Japanese?” and “What’s it like being LGBTQ+ in Japan?” from TAKASHii from Japan, hoping that people spoke in Japanese, but they didn’t (and obviously I coudn’t stop watching because of the recommendations)

Recently, I listened to a song by Atarashii Gakko (blaming Insta reels), and I love the girls so much! They’re all super fun and adorable. So I watched this vlog by Kanon because I realized I spent almost an hour watching things about Japan in English and didn’t actually get any real practice in for today’s routine hjshsjhs.

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Is this new words in Japanese AND in German? :grin:

btw I only noticed it on the third item :sweat_smile:

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Alright, I might as well hop in late and talk about what I’m up to here too like I am the reading challenge. I’ve been more or less listening every day anyway.

A lot of it is Splatoon 3 videos, haha. I’m still playing that game too much, I might have over 1000 hours logged don’t tell anyone, so it’s a nice way to pick up more ways others play and practice my listening all at once. Today through this video I discovered a new channel – he seems really good at the heavy splatling (basically one of the game’s minigun equivalents), which I really like playing, so that’s nice! Kind of amused by how often he does these weird forced HA HA HA laughs in this video, but it’s all good. I can more or less understand fine? Definitely not 100% but I feel I’ve certainly gotten better. You have to be into this specific niche to get much use out of these videos because there is so much game specific vocab, names of weapons and the like. By now I’ve picked up on a lot of them at least.

If nothing else, watching a lot of Splatoon videos has taught me the word 打開 (だかい, basically breaking a stalemate) really well.

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