I guess, I’m gonna join in extra late.
I have neglected my listening comprehension nearly completely. I am not able to understand Japanese at a natural pace even after about 4 years of studying.
Hope this keeps me at it for a while. I’m aiming for N3 in the next summer, so I have to catch up a bit.
Not sure what I will be listening to though.
Guess I’ll start with some videos YouTube recommends me today and look over what you guys did over the next few days.
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Report
October Week 5/6 (Oct 28 - Oct 31)
- 28th Oct
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 40 minutes
- 29th Oct
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 40+ minutes
- 30th Oct
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 40+ minutes
- 31st Oct
- Watched ~3 episodes Made in Abyss without subtitles
November Week 1 (Nov 1 - Nov 6)
- 1st Nov
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 20+ minutes
- 2nd Nov
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 20+ minutes
- 3rd Nov
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 40+ minutes (mostly passiv)
- 4th Nov
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 20+ minutes (mostly passiv)
- 5th Nov
- Watched a Persona 4 Let’s Play for 20+ minutes (mostly passiv)
- Watched 15min of a Comprehensible Japanese video
- 6th Nov
- Listened and watched news from various sources for about 20min
November Week 2 (Nov 7 - Nov 13)
- 7th Nov
- Too tired: Only 2-3 V-tuber clips with Japanese subs
- 8th Nov
- Too tired: Only 2-3 V-tuber clips with English subs
- 9th Nov
- same
- 10th Nov
- same
- 11thNov
- same [actually that is just normal and no additional task]
- 12th Nov
- NHK news
- Comprehensible Japanese [2 videos]
- 13th Nov
- Comprehensible Japanese [1 video]
November Week 3 (Nov 14 - Nov 20)
- 14th Nov
- Three Tadoku books of increasing difficulty
- 15th Nov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video [intermediate]
- One Tadoku book [2]
- 16th Nov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video [intermediate]
- 17th Nov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video at 1.1 speed [intermediate]
- 18thNov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video [intermediate]
- 19th Nov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video [intermediate]
- 20th Nov
- One Comprehensible Japanese video [intermediate]
Current goto-resources
- Comprehensible Japanese Slowly and clearly spoken 10min videos. Probably a bit too easy [My level: Intermediate]
- Tadoku free books [My level: 2]
Tested resources
Further testing
Rejected resources
- Made in Abyss (Anime): Early on rather simple, gets pretty difficult and too fast paced after some episodes. Starting with the descend
- NHK Easy: While understandable, I can not stand the artificial voice
Resources to test
Sorted by priority
- Watanoc articles sorted by difficulty, has audio [Varies]
- Haruka ~10 min videos [Intermediate]
- Bite size Japanese 10+min videos [Beginner]
- Little Witch Academia (Netflix) (Anime) [Intermediate]
- Listening Practice Thread
Stats
Current Streak: 3
Longest Streak: 10
Total day learned: 13
Last Updated: 13th November