🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Fall 2022 🍁

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:fallen_leaf: Day 47, 16th of November :maple_leaf:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Relistened to Nihongoconteppei. Did it go better than last time? No. I’m really just missing too much vocabulary.

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If it gets too frustrating, try finding something that’s been transcribed, then you can get a better comprehension - though typically you have to pay for these unfortunately.

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Anything on youtube has auto transciptions. No need to pay for those.

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November 16 :film_strip: :headphones:

Today I watched one episode of Paranoia Agent, then tried some Supernative, which went okay, some hits, some misses, until it got too noisy (construction work nearby) and I had to stop. Then later I thought I might as well watch another episode, so, erm, I actually watched to the end of the series. It was just as crazy and magnificent as I remembered it. Well worth a rewatch, and I suspect I’ll watch it again in the future. If only I could remove the English subtitles I’d watch again tomorrow.

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November 16th!

Just a tiny listen today - one episode of Nihongo con Teppei.
I had planned to do more tonight, but I hadn’t called my dad for a few weeks so I thought I should call him for a catch up, and we ended up chatting for 2 hours!

(Home Post)

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Watched Chainsaw Man and an episode of Pokemon last night. Feel like my listening is finally getting to the point where I use subtitles to check if my hearing was correct and not reading as much. It’s nice to finally start feeling myself graduate off of them.

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I watched a handful of videos today on true crime. Nothing really note worthy. I also tried watching a video that went over some Buddhist stuff (cause my vocab there is weak) but fundamentally my vocab is weak there…because the topic doesn’t interest me :upside_down_face: So that went about as well as expected.

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November 17 :film_strip: :headphones:

I watched the first episode of Great Pretender on Netflix. I had tried it twice before, but could never get past the (bad) English in the beginning. I tried again today, and thankfully it changes to Japanese soon, even if the action takes place in LA. Theoretically it would be exactly the kind of thing I would be into (con men are fun to watch), but somehow it didn’t convince me and I don’t think I want to watch another episode to make sure. Which leaves me again with nothing very engaging to watch. I need to find a long-ish series I’ll want to come back to every day, or I just waste too much time looking for something to watch/listen to.

I also did some Supernative, but I feel I’m making no progress there at all. I’m sure it has its benefits, but the amount of points you lose for one mistake is very discouraging. I know I shouldn’t care about that, but strangely I do.

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Teppi came on the dog walk in the morning and came to the shops with me for a lunchtime outing to buy some bread (ok and 2 chocolate bars and a coke). A few N5 listening drills after work.
Oh I also did a level of the pitch trainer - it was long! I thought it would be 5 minutes but I think it took me more like 15 or so.
Oh I also looked at the pronunication stuff from @Twelvewishes original post. Think I’ve cracked my つ pronunciation thanks to it! Feels like a big win. I parrotted the full list of pronunciation drills and tried to keep up as there’s not much gap. Quite interesting to see the pitch bars as you’re listening.

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Nov 17, Thu of Week 8 of Fall 2022 :maple_leaf:

I started watching Pokemon series from 1997, without sub (1.5 episodes) Even if I generate sub, I see that it is not good enough to help much. I can remember soundtracks well from the games (but early games’ texts aren’t spoken). There are obviously new BGM’s as well. I missed しげる so much.

I looked at mimicmethod.com in @Twelvewishes’s Home Post. Truthfully, I don’t want to listen to much of anything else, other than Japanese, but after Course Introduction (watch this first), there are PDF for every VDO lectures. I also see Soundcloud in some classes.

As a matter of fact, it’s pretty bad to study a language without phonetics at all; but a question is how to execute the learning well. There is also a part about some ideas of language learning. I don’t see the course on pitch and sound changes, though. But of course, I have problem with distinguishing some consonants, so that will be the first task.

About the ideas of language learning, I might apply to another language, Mandarin; where I went nowhere. (I got some ideas from audio Anki first, though. Maybe later, say 2024.)

I listened to an episode of Learn Japanese with Noriko.

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:fallen_leaf: Day 48, 17th of November :maple_leaf:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

After I saw some people refer to my link to the mimicmethods lectures, I couldn’t sit still and decided to finally do them. I kept putting it off because it seemed like such a huge time commitment, but I think I will just go through all lectures over a few days and then only do the drills. I studied phonects for a long time in an academic context, so there won’t be anyhting new for me there, but taking the time to train my ear and mouth to these sounds seems like it will help me when I kept struggling with Supernative and such.

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November 17th!

Today I listened to 4 episodes of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
One was about international marriages, which was interesting.

(Home Post)

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Yesterday I just barely got around to watching one episode of Pokemon. x.x
Aside from the daily conversations I listen to at work I had a really hard time getting listening in yesterday.

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Summary Post

November 17th
What did I listen to?: A Series of Unfortunate Events Ep 10
How much time did I spend listening?: 45 min-ish (1 episode)

I…honestly felt like I didn’t get the majority of the dialogue in this episode :upside_down_face: Today was not a good listening day lol. But I continued to let the Japanese wash over me, in hopes that it will help something eventually :joy: I’m counting the fact that I did anything as a victory, considering my track record lately :eyes:

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So I’ve been in a bit of a mood today, since I resumed ‘formal studying’ of I’ve had feelings of ‘man, my Japanese sucks’. Studying formally requires me to look at the blind spots I have with a more critical eye than I usually take.

So, I opened up my notes that I take on my progress and my last entry was from June and it said:

[ video ] is barely understandable to me. It goes way too fast for me to keep up.

That video is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYl7DErz0k
And I can understand it now. Not 100%, but it no longer feels impossibly fast and I got the gist of what she was saying for the majority of the books although a few passed by with ???. She does talk fast :joy:

So that was a nice little boost when I needed it. I am improving. Oddly I’d gone into my notes to find an Aozora short story I’d felt was too hard sometime last year (I think). Still need to locate that and give it another whirl.

Also, one of the books in the video is 漱石先生の事件簿 which is described as

『吾輩は猫である』の物語世界がミステリーとしてよみがえる。
ユーモアあふれる“日常の謎”連作集!

Paging @Zakarius if you want a follow up to the original work! Also @Naphthalene too I guess cause hey, it’s on Audible!

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November 18 :film_strip: :headphones:

The quest for something to hold my interest continues. Today I watched the first episode of Dorohedoro on Netflix. It was …bizarre. There’s no other word for it, I have no idea what I just watched. But I somehow watched it to the end, when I’ve stopped countless other anime halfway in the first episode, so, who knows? I might continue?

Also some more Supernative. Not even looking at the scores any more. Or at least I’m trying not to. I’ve been at around the same score for ages, and that’s okay. It’s pretty realistic, after all, even if not very pleasant.

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Stick with it, I really enjoyed it, bizarre is the correct word!
Oh yeah it’s coming back to me now…

Teppi morning dogwalk, Teppi lunchtime pharmacy and convenience store walk, half a dozen n5 drills towards the end of the day.
In a bit of a streak of Teppi episodes where I don’t understand a lot - it’s generally when I don’t understand what the topic word is… ‘todays topic is naninani…’ and I spend the rest of the episode thinking ‘wth was the topic’… sometimes I stop and try to look up the word there and then, sometimes helps

EDIT: oh also did some supernatively listen and type in the word thing that @omk3 mentioned. was good but it was only sentence endings, I’m sure it will get much tougher!

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This looks cool! Thanks for tagging me, I’ll put it in my booklist!

I listened to the video you shared too so I could get some listening in, and yeah she does talk rather fast :sweat_smile:
But her pronunciation is pretty clear so I could follow along a bit! And by a bit that means hearing strings of hiragana without knowing what words they make then suddenly recognising a word and being like “I know that one!” One day I might be able to listen to something and actually keep up with it.

YouTube also suggested this to me:

Animation quality that rivals a lot of anime just for advertising a tasty crunchy snack?
But it does look tasty… that crunch sound also, cute fox girl :fox_face:

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It’s much easier to do animation at that quality level if you only need 30 seconds of it :slight_smile:

I put that book on my to-buy list too.

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