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.
I was out all day and it’s almost midnight now, but I managed to listen to 2 episodes from Nihongo Con Teppei.
I was so surprised because I understood all of it from both the episodes hehe, but obviously the topics were easy. One was about summers and winters and the other one was about watching TV.
It’s a testing time for me to maintain the streak lol, but I’m glad I enjoyed a lot today!
Today I watched the first episode of 私に天使が舞い降りた, which I picked purely because of it’s low Natively level.
I understood it pretty well, but I’m not going to be continuing with it since it seems to be about a college-age woman who develops an unhealthy infatuation with one of her 5th Grade sisters friends, and tempts her with sweets to dress up in cos-play style outfits and have photos taken while she is clearly uncomfortable with it.
So, yea, NOPE, thats not one for me at all.
Watched Onibaba (1964) two days ago. English subs for this first time viewing. Gave listening my all but the audio isn’t super and there is a lot of screaming.
Listening to around an hour of Edgar Allen Poe stories in Japanese yesterday during in unexpected road-trip.
Tonight I watched three Looney Tunes shorts and Jurassic Park (dubs no subs)
I was looking for more chill walking videos on this channel, but this video had a thumbnail of a ridiculously cute dog so of course I clicked on it Koma-chan the shiba inu Except for the first scene, the conversation was pretty hard for me to follow They talked kind of fast, I feel, and also kind of talked over each other quite a bit, like the back and forth of the conversation was quite fast and didn’t leave time for me to process what the first person had said. Even when they put the subs on I barely had time to read them all in Japanese, I ended up looking at the English more than I wanted to
吾輩は猫である Ch.1 first half. I like read-aloud from sosekiproject more than from audiobook.jp; though from the website is, too long per page. Ch.1 = 1 webpage = 2 audiobook tracks; Ch.2 = 2 webpages = 8 tracks.
Another little listen today - 2 episodes of Nihongo con Teppei.
I’ve had a nice, but busy, day today - so I needed something quick and simple rather than spending ages on trying to pick a new series to watch.
I started listening to the audiobook for パパ活 which is a nonfiction book looking into what is basically the Japanese equivalent of sugar daddy culture. It’s an interesting listen partially for the topic and partially because the sentences go from 100%, easy comprehension to “huh, what did he just say?” and back for me pretty frequently I’m still catching my ears up to the kinds of vocab used in nonfiction / analysis type writing.
I’ve only been listening to books I’ve already finished lately so having something new that’s in my comprehensible range is nice. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up.
I listened to one episode of Japanese with Shun today. It was about weight training, so I was pretty intrigued. but it turned out that I didn’t know any of the vocabulary lol, so I had to listen to the same episode again. It was still pretty fun though, and I learned a lot of new words.
Another frog video
Had a lot of trouble understanding even a little bit of it, but I decided it still counted as listening. I have the habit of not counting things if I feel they haven’t been completed successfully, but that’s silly. I still tried and so it counts.
Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 23 - 24
An episode about summer - I’m with てっぺい in that autumn is my favorite season and summer is a bit… Also noticed a grammatical construction I just read about! Nice.
it was ほうが~より btw
In a basic Dictionary of Japanese Grammar, the construction is: ほうが~より
On Bunpro it is the other way around: より~ のほうが
It was really interesting to see it in actual use, where てっぺい used: 「冬のほうが夏より」
Another episode about watching television, which I don’t do and am not interested in.
I found this series of manga-style skits about a high school girl and her shiba inu and it’s pretty fun. I don’t know if I can watch all 45 minutes straight (I prefer long-form content and this is just a stream of short form) but it’s still fun:
Hi everyone! This will be my first challenge (or anything in the WK community actually), and I’m joining late, but I’m very eager to stretch my listening muscles. My goals are just to listen more every day, regardless of what content it is, and be consistent. I would like to read subs less and focus on listening, too.
What I’m planning on using:
– some dramas (thinking that rewatching something I’m already familiar and comfortable with, but without foreign subs, would be a good idea, perhaps チェリまほ)
– videos from (JP) figure skaters, as I already watch them sometimes + am familiar with the vocab + it’s my big love
– stories in Bandori (バンドリ) since they’re fully voiced and I can check both JP and EN subs in different versions of the game
– some random Youtube videos
Ok this was really cool >< I love art museums - how were those paintings done by high schoolers, they looked so good My personal favorites were the blue whale, tiny seal carving, llama with strawberry on head, 3D bald eagle (how) and all the shodo aksjksdghknv the calligraphy was so cool, I freaking love calligraphy, it’s so pretty