🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Fall 2022 🍁

Another day with Nihongo con Teppei. #30 エアコンは付けますか? and #31 ご飯を食べたばかりです。 Ears and brain refused to work together during 31. Gave that another listen after checking my understanding of ばかり. Mostly better.

Added, configured, and started theMoeWay Tango N4 anki deck. Spent way too much time deciding how many new cards per day. Picked 22. I remember that being significant for some reason.

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Little bit of N5 listening comprehension recap and deciphering a 25 second voice note.

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Maybe, this would help a bit -- it's from "A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar"




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October 21 :film_strip:

So, I finished Haunting of HIll House, and I was in the mood for …nothing. Looking through Netflix, nothing. Youtube, nothing. Audiobook, nah. Supernative, I get a server error. I was about to give up, then opened Netflix again for one last look. And…

Has Netflix been spying on me? Not that I mind. There on the front page, as the first suggestion, was splashed the word ONI, an assortment of 妖怪 behind it. Hadn’t I been looking for exactly this kind of content for ages? Between that and the upcoming Junji Ito series, I feel like I’m getting a suspiciously personalized service. :eyes:

So I watched an episode of Oni. It’s for kids, and it’s more cute than scary, but I’m not complaining. There’s Tengu, a (ridiculously cute and unthreatening chick-like) Kappa, a Tanuki, a Daruma, a Kasa-obake, and more. And the scenery is just beautiful.

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Oct 21, Fri of Week 4 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

Today I listened to 2 episodes of Nihongo SWiTCH.

Well, I listened to the second one before, but I have to somewhat remember the content to count. Relistening is never out of equation.

HUNTER x HUNTER is continued by (at least) 1 episode daily, as usual. Yesterday too.

I tried listening to several things on YouTube [1]; however, I feel I don’t catch enough to count.

At current time, I feel I need an accompanying transcript to look at quickly (but not necessarily need to be used every time). Hukumusume collection is a yet another option.


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October 21st!

Today I listened to Episode 72 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners. I’ve been following episodes much morre easily recently, and its fun to feel the daily practise paying off since starting the Summer challenge.
I also had 2 car journeys today totalling about 3.5 hours, and spent the whole time listening to Japanese music.

(Home post)

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On October the 21st I’ve listened to:

  • Today’s NHK Easy News.
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Nihongo con Teppei again today. Just episode 32 オススメの勉強方法について
Some random bits, Japanese game trailers on Nintendo Switch


Went for a walk with my roommate. I carried nothing, they carried their phone with them, but didn’t use it. During that walk I talked about a random oldish movie. The next time I used Netflix, you might think that random movie and related titles were my favorite thing. Then I thought, oh, third party data

That’s the one :books: Edited out this whole thing in my last post about how I have the physical book on the shelf closest to me where I study. How I accumulate markers in there until I give a section a thorough read through. That I had previously marked ばかり, read it, and cleared it. That I still had to go back to it. But I’m making an effort to go quantity over quality with update posts

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:fallen_leaf: :headphones: softlyraining’s leaf pile listens :maple_leaf: :studio_microphone:

October 21st:

Was only able to muster up the energy for chores and Satori Reader. :disappointed: We’ll see how this weekend goes.

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October 22nd

Today I listened to episode 73 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners. It was about how podcasts are good for studying.

(Home Post)

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JEES JLPT N5 listening comp practice. Listened to the whole thing. I have a crush on the lady announcer’s voice (if it’s possible to get a crush on a voice). So clear… lovely pace to it for a beginner, it’s just a lovely voice to listen to.

If I close my eyes, I can hear her.
男の人と女の人が話しています…
何々。
二人はそれから何をしましか。

JLPT Lady, you’d understand my Japanese. :two_hearts:

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Today’s listening: 団地への招待, a 1960 public information film about the then-new public housing apartment blocks. Interesting mix of “look at all the new facilities and conveniences” and “watch out for mould and don’t give yourself carbon monoxide poisoning from the gas heater” messaging. I found the gas-fired bath water heater particularly alarming personally…

(If you’ve seen the Whisper of the Heart anime, this is the kind of apartment Shizuku lives in, I think.)

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Oct 22, Sat of Week 4 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

Today I listened to 2 episodes of Nihongo SWiTCH.

HUNTER x HUNTER is continued by 1 episode daily, as usual.

I also watched several things on YouTube.

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October 22 :film_strip:

Finished the rest of Oni. I liked it a lot, although I felt the storytelling was more American than Japanese in its structure. I watched with English subtitles because I had company, and it didn’t work out as well as it did with Haunting of Hill House, not sure why. I did catch quite a lot, just not so much.

On the pitch accent front, I never reached my 17/20 high score again in Migaku. I’m getting increasingly frustrated, yet keep going back and retrying. One of these days…

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On October the 22nd I’ve listened to:

  • Nihongo con Teppei for beginners episodes 656-658.
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:sound: 10月22日
YUYUの日本語Podcast ― Vol.06 カルチャーショック


Not much to add kind of day c:

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Lately I’ve decided I need to start doing intensive focused listening, instead of just listening to get the gist of things, but that takes more time so I haven’t been doing it every day.

But lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations, so that’s been counting as my listening practice. I’ve made a lot of embarrassing mistakes as well, but c’est la vie. (starts sweating as I remember accidentally using うま to call the smell of shit delicious, instead of saying 牛… although in hindsight maybe they interpreted it as horse, which is not as bad. Suddenly I feel better. Either way, a failure to communicate lol)

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Pimsleur 2 lesson 9

Played a couple hours worth of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Full game trial on Nintendo Switch online until Oct 27. Turns out this game has a lot of Japanese Audio. It seems like a fun metroid-vania type game but maybe it spends too much time on action grinding for my tastes right now.

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October 23 :film_strip::chart_with_upwards_trend:

I (re)watched 千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited Away) today. As good as ever. Most of what is spoken was short and simple, but I got lost whenever there was more than one phrase in quick succession.

On the pitch accent front, don’t tell anyone :shushing_face: , but I cheated :see_no_evil: .There’s really no kind of instructions accompanying this pitch accent trainer, so I didn’t know if there were more lessons after this one or not and I desperately needed to know before my subscription ran out. So I used yomichan to double-check the pitch accent of a few words I had difficulty with, and that was enough for me to complete the test. And it appears there are no more lessons. The “level” has to do with how many cards you complete in training, and not with the lessons at all. So then I did a lot of training, which is (so far?) single words only, and I did consistently quite well. I’m already level 11, and I intend to keep going, because this is way more fun now that the frustration is out of the way. Phew.

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On October the 23rd I’ve listened to:

  • Nihongo con Teppei for beginners episodes 659-663.
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