10月13日 (日)
Rebuild #393 (1:41-2:09/2:09)
本好きの下剋上 Vol.6 (0-0:32/10:31) 
. Prologue, ofc continuing from prev vol’s Epilogue.
tone practice
ん～ふ～
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Week 2: (Oct. 7 - Oct. 13 2024)
- My main listening material this week was this Spotify playlist of Japanese versions of English songs.
- Listened to N5 listening practice probably 3x this week.
- This Saturday, I also watched EP03 of 文豪ストレイドッグス S01. It still didn’t have JPN Subs so it was more of a listening practice.
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Ahhh! I also listen to Yuyu! But only his podcasts 
I didn’t know he does some grammar episodes. Thank you for sharing this!
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I like Yuyu a lot! There’s enough variety in the episodes that I don’t get bored of the topics, and his speaking style is chill and laid back so I can put it on while I’m doing other things.
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I feel the same way. Never know what he’s going to talk about.
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That story made me cry 
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Posting early today (in Australia) 
Only did a little listening because the last few days I focused on the reading and writing challenges, plus reviews, and didn’t have enough energy to continue afterwards. I’ve been itching to learn from a textbook 
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Japanesepod101 | 1 lesson |
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NHKやさしいことばニュース | 3 articles |
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I had good intentions to update daily but that’s not gonna happen lol.
Thanks to all you good people I have found Nihongo Con Teppi so at minimum I’ve been a few episodes of that a day. So for me it’s mostly that, classes, Comprehensible Japanese, and when I have time left after that, watching a film or tv. 90% of the time that’s with english subtitles, but if I have the time and brainpower I try to watch an episode of something without subtitles, then rewatch with subtitles after.
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Week two update: finished season two of Takagi-san, watched a few more episodes of Wind Breaker, and started Shikimori.
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10月14日(月)
今日の日本語の森の動画。。。
ジャン！
4989 American Life Podcast #25
オススメ英語上達ほう法
Summary
Intro: only two weeks remain of her summer holidays & she wants to make sure she enjoys them! She hasn’t got as much done as she would’ve liked but she’s still had a good time.
Part 1: Today she wants to speak about her good friend, English teacher, life coach, fellow beer buddy, Carol, with whom she went out to lunch with the other day. Carol teaches at the college Utaco goes to & was her first teacher there. Efficiently delivering her lessons with a smile, Carol is definitely Utaco’s “type”. The adult ESL classes she took before her current college were good at the time, but not really serious enough so Utaco thought she’d try college classes, thereby meeting Carol. Utaco really appreciates Carol’s ability to answer her questions - Utaco being the kind of student who really wants to understand the fine points & irregularities of a subject. Her previous teacher - not having being originally trained as an ESL teacher (they had been a police officer before retiring) - couldn’t always answer Utaco’s questions. And to be fair, Utaco has come to realise that her perfectionism has its drawbacks - fear of making mistakes, makes it hard for her to speak but Carol is really able to answer her questions and Utaco appreciates that. College being college, classes are graded & so eventually Utaco had to move up and onto another teacher’s class, but before that, at the end of the term, she had went out to lunch with Carol & another student Monica for the first time. From then, she occasionally dropped by Carol’s office to say hello & they gradually became friends. Then, have moved a little away, Utaco didn’t go to the college for a year but she & Carole kept in email contact and occasionally caught up over lunch. And then when Utaco returned to the area & therefore the college, she went back to dropping by Carol’s office to say hello. And lunch together once a term has become a “thing”.
ESL teachers, Utaco thinks, generally have a broad outlook & respect their students. Both Carol & Utaco like beer so it’s something they can do & talk about together. Turns out Carol lived in Japan for a year & taught English there & perhaps that’s why she was initially interested in Utaco. Carol also likes Asian food and when she said she was thinking of making yakisoba but didn’t know where to buy the sauce, Utaco got her some. She may be a teacher but she loves frank & funny stories. Living in Japan, she often hung out in Roppongi & told the ESL class about being out late dancing & having a good time there, earning herself a reputation among her Japanese students as being a bit of a party animal. Utaco thinks that being a Californian who attended Hawaii Uni might be why carol’s so easygoing. Carol thinks Hawaii is kind of paradise, an opinion she shares with many Japanese people. Utaco hasn’t been to Hawaii but would love to go. She concludes meeting Carol has been a big plus and she’s very grateful to Carol.
Part2: she’s been enjoying yakiniku. While there are quite a few Korean BBQs, there aren’t any actual Japanese Yakiniku restaurants close to her. However, one opened in San Jose (too far to go regularly) and she went there once and really enjoyed the food and beer. However, 2 years ago she managed to buy a yakiniku teppan (probably Korean) at a recycle shop and thought they could now make their own, but the kind of meat available in America posed a problem - Americans seem to like their meat very lean. However, found she could get suitably priced thinly sliced meat off the bone at the Mexican supermarket (you can get pork there too she adds) which is both fatty and delicious. She also recommends other Asian supermarkets over the expensive Japanese ones where you can also buy boned pork ribs which cannot be got in Mexican or American supermarkets. She got some recently from an Asian store - can’t remember which kind - and they were delicious. Living in a one bedroom apartment, she only cooks yakiniku when she can do so outside as it stinks up the apartment. But eating outside, enjoying the good weather with a beer is the best thing.
Part 3: she recommends writing in English, what she calls a “free journal” - a practice she encountered in Carol’s class as a great way to improve your English. It’s important just to write - not to get caught up worrying about using the correct grammar or looking up the correct words. She kept that journal for the term with Carol & Carol read over everyone’s journal carefully, adding her corrections and friendly comments. As a Japanese school student, Utaco learnt English grammar and to read English but never to speak it. She never had to think in it, but the free journal became a way to practices these skills - of course as a Japanese person she often ignored Carol’s recommendation to write whatever came into her head and looked up words in the dictionary and searched out alternative ways of saying things (笑) but she still found the exercise beneficial. You can write it for yourself she says, but if you can find someone else to read it & respond that would be even better. Correct English isn’t the aim, communication is, so you could even do it with ESL friends or other Japanese people. If you don’t have anyone, you can send your diary to her.
Part 3: How does everyone feel about the size of the American pringles tube? Is it just her or is the American tube smaller than the Japanese one? Or is it a case of her becoming accustomed to everything being bigger in American that a normal sized Pringles tube feels small? Out of curiosity, then & there she looks up the Japanese size (sour cream flavour - yum! she adds) and finds that the Japanese pringles are 110g but the American one is 158 g making the American one bigger! Is it that she’s got used to American sizing or do Americans use less packaging and Japanese more? Scary thought! If she’s eaten a whole tube of American pringles, she’s eaten 158g!
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If anyone is interested there’s a new podcast club so you can practice your listening by going through a podcast with others each week!
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10月14日
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Being sick, I could watch a lot in bed at least I guess haha
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Listened to I have no idea how many episodes of nihongo con teppei whilst playing a game, so very passive listening but better than nothing 
and I did tune into what he was saying sometimes although his episodes about onomatopoeia can put me to sleep sometimes
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10月15日(火)
Tried out a new grammar series today - very, very easy, maybe too easy….Not great in terms of listening practice but probably useful in terms of grammar review. Might continue this alongside the 日本語の森videos & podcast listening:
Today’s 日本語の森の動画
Today’s Podcast: Sayuri Saying “Taking the Leap: From Office Worker to Online Japanese Teacher” #238
約9分30秒
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YUYUの日本語 | podcast | 25min |
Just yuyu today and yesterday. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have more time at work for listening.
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Japanesepod101 | 1 lesson |
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NHKやさしいことばニュース | 3 articles |
Like yesterday, I only did a little listening today, because I wanted to save my energy for textbook learning. I’m also going to finish watching The Boy and the Heron with english subs
(for the second time) soon/later today. I’m doing that, because I want to watch it fully in japanese afterwards. I like to have a good idea of the dialog so I can pick up new words/grammar using a mix of memory and context
Oh, and I finished the absolute beginner course in jpod101! Which is neat. 
Starting from scratch has been useful in its own way
Other people’s posts make me second guess the date (in australia)
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