Spent a lot of time reading, but not so much time listening lately
5/4 - 1 episode of Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 - still with english subs, but trying not to use them too much when I can avoid them. also watched about half of an episode of skip and loafer without english subs because, inexplicably, there were no english subs for the new episode
5/5 - オフコラボ!2人で手料理作るぺこおおおおおおおおおお! - pekora cooking stream with AZKi; hololive cooking streams are always… eventful Pekora’s knife handling is absolutely terrifying. I only watched ピーマンの肉詰め prep part, might try that out at some point.
In love with this pokemon plate
Oh and the 牛丼 was delicious and devoured with great vigor! I’m going to try making it again soon with some tweaks, definitely a nice one to add to the repertoire.
Edit: i lied, i made the 牛丼 tonight because i have zero self control added shiitake mushrooms, a little bit of sugar, and some red miso and it was, I don’t think i’m exaggerating, one of the most delicious things i’ve ever cooked. still some ideas to improve/tweak it, but I want to watch some more videos first!
May 5th
What did I listen to?: Speak Japanese Naturally (thanks for linking @Zakarius )
How much time did I spend listening?: ~13 min
I went to visit Mt. Fuji and see the shibazakura today~ Gosh that was so pretty Did I understand it? …Not really Definitely needed those Japanese subs. But it was pretty! I think the pretty low-key distracted me from listening at times lmao
Missed posting yesterday but didn’t miss listening. Just barely. Did the grocery shopping and listened to whatever Edgar Allen Poe translation I’m in the middle of, on the drive there and back. Didn’t even get enough information to figure out which story it was.
Today I listened to Nightmare Before Christmas and then fell asleep
こころ (夏目漱石) : (下) 先生と遺書 Ch.53-56 (end). tbh, with this series, I listened to sosekiproject’s tracks and repeated in audiobook.jp, which use different narrators. sosekiproject chops indeed made it easier to start in the middle and rewind.
YUYU on childhood video games.
歴史 [50-53/90] - ヨーロッパ・侵入. Not much today because they aren’t Japanese (but Chinese are still something).
One episode from Japanese with Shun about teaching. I was super distracted and tired today, so I had to listen to the episode twice and still had difficulty understanding lol
May 6th
Today I tried another N4 practice test and scored 40/60 for listening.
And I watched a cooking video about how to make Zundamochi. Usually I don’t watch content intended for native speakers so it was very difficult for me. Luckily the recipe isn’t too complicated so I could still kind of understand what was going on and focus on catching as many words as possible.
Today I listened to the next episode of JapanesePod101’s Lower Intermediate series.
I also watched this video that @polv linked to a few days ago.
I watched it first with no subtitles at all to make sure I was focused on listening, and I understood quite a bit but missed some stuff too, so I watched it a second time with english subs to see what bits I hadn’t managed to understand. Overall I was pretty pleased with how much I understood. Even the bits where I wasn’t sure exactly what was being said I managed to get the main gist of the conversation which is a massive improvement from what I would have understood a few months ago.
May 6th
What did I listen to?: Speak Japanese Naturally goes to Jinbouchou someone linked this earlier in the thread but I can’t remember who, thank you whoever that was
How much time did I spend listening?: ~12 min
Another chill walking video, I like these - this one was way more comprehensible than the Mt. Fuji one (I tried to ignore the subs and was mostly successful - it’s kind of funny though, without subs to support my understanding I could literally feel the delay between me hearing the sound of the words and me processing and understanding what the words are). But I have a question, why are the book shelves built into the outside of that one shop, how do they protect them in the rain D: I like the idea of there being so many secondhand book stores in one place that you can have kind of specialized or themed ones, that sounds fun
On top of the book shelves there seem to be some kind of green awnings. Maybe the bookstore staff pull them out when its rainy and use the green curtains to protect the books on the sides as well. Or they simply close the curtains all the way but then the customers wouldn’t be able to access the books anymore.
Chill walking in Yoyogi park~ I didn’t visit this part of the park when I went there (I low-key thought this was going to include Meiji Jingu but I was incorrect lol, still nice though xD). I feel like my stamina started to give out and I started looking at the subs more as the video went on lol
So I creeped on this store on Google and found some more pictures It does look like they’re a bit more recessed into the wall/under the awning than I first thought. They probably do just close the curtains if it’s really raining, I doubt that many people would want to stand out there in the rain to look at books anyway Still, I would think that even with the awnings/curtains, the general moisture in the air when it rains would be not great for the books? Though I suppose that if it resulted in any significant damage to the inventory they probably wouldn’t do it lol. It does look pretty :3
Anyway, I’m done pondering the practicality of outdoor bookshelves now lmao sorry
5/6 - watched a little bit of mio playing minecraft ~15 minutes
5/7 - watched korone play the new hololive fighting game for ~an hour, but extremely passively.
Listening still been kinda lazy, but trying to make sure I’m doing something every day at least
Just a little listen today - 2 episodes of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
I still haven’t decided what to watch next now that I’ve finished Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure.
2014
1.GUTS! / 嵐
3/5 It’s hard to judge the song because of my prejudice against Arashi already
2.心のプラカード / AKB48
4/5 It sounds like a group from the 1960s which I enjoy
ラブラドール・レトリバー / AKB48
4/5 It was fine
4.誰も知らない / 嵐
3/5 hmm not bad
5.Bittersweet / 嵐
2/5 wow Arashi dominated this year
2013
1恋するフォーチュンクッキー / AKB48
3/5 It’s fine
2.さよならクロール / AKB48
3/5 is this the same song as the one I just listened to? Points off for wooing in the song. Plus points for beach vibes
I’m giving up. I Looked at the next few years and it’s mostly Arashi songs and AKB48
Moving to most popular anime songs of all time which seems much funner and more diverse
Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 21 - 22
One more episode about traveling, the other about a more interesting topic: food!
I think I will take some inspiration from てっぺい and do one of my prepared speeches on one of his topics. A good opportunity to learn more words about things I am interested in.