🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Fall 2022 🍁

:fallen_leaf: Day 6, 6th of October :maple_leaf:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Stumbled upon a video in my recommendations about a weird apartment in Osaka. The guy in the video speaks English, but halfway through he invites someone to judge the apartment and she speaks Japanese. The subtitles are unfortunately baked-in, but it was quite interesting to hear more conversational spoken Japanese.

The video was fun, so I watched the other two where she showed up, here, and here. Topic was still weird small apartments in Japan.

It helped me with contextualizing some adverbs, too! けど is now something I’ll have less trouble with. :smile:

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Main post

On October the 6th I’ve listened to

  • Nihongo Con Teppei for beginners episodes 579 – 586.
  • Today’s NHK Easy News.

P. S. I wonder what’s better – to reply to my own last post each time (while giving the link to the main post) or to reply to my main post each time… :thinking:
I use the latter in the Read Everyday Challenge, but decided to try the former here. We’ll see which one will be more convenient.

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That one showed up in mine, too. The algorithm moves in mysterious ways :person_shrugging:

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October 6th

Just a little listen today - one episode of Nihongo con Teppei.
Also listened to some music while I was doing some writing :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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October 1 - October 6

:headphones: (audiobook) 九十九の空傘 | → ~50%
:tv: (anime) ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Bungō Stray Dogs | Ep. 4 → End of Season 1

So, up to the beginning of this challenge I had mostly been listening to/watching ‘realistic’ things (regular drama shows and the like) because that seems to be the easiest. But I’ve been growing a bit tired of that, so I’ve been trying to find things to listen to or watch that I can more or less understand & that are at the same time closer to my usual favorite genres - sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, suspense, anything with a plot outside of regular drama/slice of life stuff, basically. Unfortunately that’s not at all an easy task :sob:
So, I tried Bungo Stray Dogs and the first few episodes were pretty comprehensible actually, but then of course it got harder - Welp. :see_no_evil: Anyway, I liked it enough to continue anyway, I miss things but with a lot of focus it’s just about okay.
It’s a crime/super powers/comedy mix kind of thing, kind of silly but in a fun way :laughing:
Bonus points for not being about high schoolers for once.

I also tried one of these

I’m always happy to try podcasts with short episodes - I don’t often have the patience for the longer ones :see_no_evil: Cool concept, might listen to more of them in the future, thanks for mentioning it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Summary Post

October 6th
What did I listen to?: A Series of Unfortunate Events Ep 2
How much time did I spend listening?: 48 min (? however long the episode was)

Oof, yesterday was a bad day. I didn’t think I’d be missing a day so early in the challenge but I just…could not. Fortunately, today was much better (even though I like…didn’t sleep last night lmao, but sometimes I think that lack of sleep ends up mellowing me out in a way that’s not all bad. Eventually I get too tired to keep stressing :upside_down_face:) Anyway, I managed to squeeze in another episode of A Series of Unfortunate Events today. I found myself looking at the subtitles less this time, possibly because I felt like I could actually…catch a lot more of the spoken words in this episode? Like I could hear the sounds better. Of course, there were some sections that were basically incomprehensible because of (mostly law-related) vocab I didn’t know, but I know the series well enough that it really didn’t even bother me :joy:

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

October 6th

Just did a little Satori Reader today. I honestly didn’t feel like doing much else. It happens; hopefully I’ll be more energized tomorrow.

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Finished Men in Black last night.
Watched all of Men in Black 2 tonight.
Thought I had seen it already but apparently not. Comprehension level not nearly as high as during the first movie.

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X3 I will try to join too. I hope I will find enough material to listen to. So far I found it difficult.

Oh but yeah actually I did listen to something already yesterday.

Did Listening lessons in the book Try! JLPT N3.

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Listened to

  • Try! JLPT N3 (Started at Lesson 7)
    I listen to the text in the beginning without reading, then with reading, and again just reading to go through words which I didn’t understand.
    Then there’s a JLPT mock test and there’s some listening exercises too.
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Did the listening exercises in Lesson 9 of “Try! JLPT N3”.

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Oct 7, Fri of Week 2 of Fall :maple_leaf: 2022

I have started yurucamp S2 on Netflix (now at Ep.3), and continued HUNTER x HUNTER (1999) as ever.

However, a problem with Netflix, as well as audiobook.jp and many other YouTube’s – loudness is too low. Not loud enough with laptop speakers, and sometimes with smartphone and headphones and surrounding noise… Also, Netflix doesn’t allow screen capture, but this is a relatively small problem (probably with pro on focus as well).

Now at HUNTER x HUNTER Ep.53, which is a little further than my manga reading. First hurdle I can see is vocabularies, as generated subtitles aren’t accurate anyway, even with not-in-dictionary pseudo-vocabularies; but then I can easily see that knowing more vocabularies helps. As long as I learn more some other ways, it should eventually be fine, I guess.

I listened to a little of voice actors’ drama audio a few days ago, and I find it just touchable. Last week I also found Nihongo SWITCH on Podbean, which isn’t so bad. (My understanding was ok, but not yet good enough, and I realized there are transcripts.)

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October 6 :film_strip:
An episode of Mononoke and a short 水木しげる 妖怪えほん clip.

October 7 :film_strip:
Another episode of Mononoke and the first episode of the Junji Ito collection that I found on youtube.

Thoughts on Mononoke: I love the art, I like the story - as far as I understand it- but I don’t love the audio. Much of it is silence, or screams and other incoherent voices, some is very slowly enunciated for effect, and then there are bursts of normal speed speaking in between all that. I’m not sure it’s the best choice for listening practice. I will stick with it some more though, because I do find it interesting, and I love the visuals.

Thoughts on Junji Ito: I haven’t read anything by him, but I’ve looked at some of his works and they seem to be creepy in a very unique way. The art style of the animation was very different though, and subtracted from that. It was still creepy, but didn’t feel as unique. I may try another episode, or I may not, not sure. The embedded English subtitles didn’t help much with listening either.

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Main post

On October the 7th I’ve listened to

  • Today’s NHK Easy News.
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:fallen_leaf: Day 7, 7th of October :maple_leaf:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Today I watched episode one of Mononoke (thank you KJules for the link!) and while I have no idea what’s going on I’m blown away by some of these shots. Amazing, amazing, amazing. It’s like a poem being acted out visually.

For a more comprehensible experience I’m going to listen to the audio recordings of some more free Tadoku books.

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October 7th

I had a class with my tutor at lunchtime today so that was lots of listening practise! We talked about winter approaching, and the increase in energy prices in the UK, and also spoke about a wedding party I went to last weekend.

This evening I listened to an episode of Nihongo Con Teppei too. It was about space :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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I found an old episode of トリビアの泉 on youtube, so I watched that – brought back memories of watching it on a tiny CRT TV back in the mid-2000s in Japan when it was originally broadcast. I’ve always thought it’s a good series for language learning: it’s funny, it has a lot of repetition built into the structure of the episode, there are subtitles of the important bits to assist with the listening, and if you don’t understand something it doesn’t matter because it moves onto the next segment pretty quickly anyway…

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:house_with_garden: Home post

10月07日

  • Several YouTube videos about 原神 (about 20-30 min ish in total).

I’m not sure if I forgot to post anything I listened to these last days but anyways. I was kinda hopeful I could track the work I do just to have something to track in this challenge, since I don’t follow days anymore, but I don’t think I’ll track anything at this point. It’s pretty hard to quantify or define what I watch or listen to, in this case for example, with YouTube videos, and at the end of the day it doesn’t really add much of use to my study or motivation. I’ll just continue posting normally and most likely say goodbye to the home post :saluting_face: . I’ll think about what I want to do with it going forward ;-; .

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I’m still traveling so keeping things simple. Watched YouTube today and tempted myself with yet more books…

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Tuned into Hokkaido News 24 and JapaNews24 for a collective 30 minutes. Pretty sleepy at the moment, most of its going right past me. Except a segment about original designs coming back at Uniqlo, got most of that.

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