🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Spring 2023 🌼 🌱

May 8th!

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. :nauseated_face:
So, yea, NOPE, thats not one for me at all.

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:hot_pepper: May 8

Missed updating a bit due to stuff.

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)

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May 8th
Missed because work :upside_down_face:

May 9th
What did I listen to?: Speak Japanese Naturally with fluffy shiba inu
How much time did I spend listening?: ~13 min

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 :joy: Koma-chan the shiba inu :pleading_face: Except for the first scene, the conversation was pretty hard for me to follow :sweat_smile: 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 :upside_down_face:

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09/05/2023 :fairy:t5: Home Post Link

Two episodes from Nihongo Con Teppei.

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May 9, Tue of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

歴史 [56-58/90] - 明治維新

Places and names

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.

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May 9th!

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.

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:hot_pepper: May 9

Attempted re-watching Tampopo. Made it eighteen minutes. Physically exhausted tonight. Calling it early.

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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 :sweat_smile: 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.

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10/05/2023 :fairy:t5: Home Post Link

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.

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May 10, Wed of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

歴史 [58-60/90] - 明治と国際

Places and names

吾輩は猫である Ch.1 latter half.

Also watched, why Japan survived colonization?, but got to around half of it. Pause, read sub and look up, indeed.

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:cherry_blossom: Day 40, 5 月 10 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:arrow_right: Another frog video :frog:
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.

:mount_fuji: 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.

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May 10th!

Today I listened to the next episode of Season 1 of JapanesePod101’s Lower Intermediate series.

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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:

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asveri’s home post :seedling:

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

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May 10th
What did I listen to?: Speak Japanese Naturally goes to Roppongi
How much time did I spend listening?: ~9 min

Ok this was really cool >< I love art museums - how were those paintings done by high schoolers, they looked so good :weary: 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 :tired_face:

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:cherry_blossom: :seedling: 5月8日 and 5月9日 and 5月10日 :seedling: :cherry_blossom: (Home Post Link)

Continuing to be kinda lazy

5/8 - 雑談しつつチェス配信 - YouTube - i watched this chess stream while getting ready for bed, don’t really remember much
5/9 - 2 episodes of ゆるキャン△ + 1 episode of skip and loafer
5/10 - 1 episode of ゆるキャン△, honestly I coul probably do this one comfortably with no subs or jp subs, but I’ve left the english on so far. Mostly not reading them, so might try turning them off tomorrow. Everyone speaks slowly enough that I should be able to look up words even without having jp subs

Over the course of those days I’ve also been listening to the Happy End discography (70s japanese rock band, one of the first commercially successful bands to write western style music w japanese lyrics), and sometimes I do pick up more than just bits and pieces, but it was largely background music while cleaning/working. Enjoyed their music quite a bit, especially the 2nd album 風街ろまん

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May 11, Thu of Week 7 of Spring Q2 2023 :cherry_blossom:

吾輩は猫である Ch.2 [1/8]. As far as I have listened to and dropped last time.

Complete the YouTube from yesterday.

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:cherry_blossom: Day 41, 5 月 11 日 :herb:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

:mount_fuji: Nihongo con Teppei - Episode 25 - 26
Episodes about reading the newspaper and magazines. Hard to understand, so note to self to relisten tomorrow.

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May 7th

I watched the video about Jinbouchou by Speak Japanese Naturally. This one was way easier to understand than the one about Mount Fuji. But I had just woken up when I watched it which made it a bit harder to stay concentrated.
Later I listened to the Nihongo con Teppei episodes 173-175.

May 8th

I got a little unmotivated again so I only watched Akane’s Korea vlog. I ate something crunchy while watching so it was hard to hear what she was saying sometimes and I resorted to reading the subtitles from time to time.

May 9th

I listened to the Japanese with Shun episodes 15 and 16. His podcast is so much easier than his youtube videos that I have watched so far.

May 10th

I watched Naoko make tofu and realized that there are only a few of her videos left that I haven’t watched yet. :frowning: This one was an older video and I was surprised by how many english translations she showed on screen. I’m glad that she has changed her approach since then and only shows translations very rarely now. Overall I was happy with my understanding.
Next I tried Akane’s Kyoto vlog. This one was very difficult for me - especially when she was talking to her friend. When I watched the video a second time while reading the subtitles I could understand a lot more but still not all of it.

May 11th

Today I went for Akane’s Shin-Yokohama vlog where she taught a lot of phrases and words to use in trains and shops. I really enjoyed the video - especially the ramen museum part. It was very interesting and looked so cool!
After that I remembered that I hadn’t watched any Comprehensible Japanese videos in a while so I decided to watch the one about obon festival. It was very interesting! I finally learned what the cucumber horse and the eggplant cow items in Animal Crossing are about. :smile:

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May 11th!

Another tiny listen today - an episode of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
I really need to get back to doing more listening each day, but this week has been super busy and I’m tired. I’ll try to do a bit extra over the weekend to compensate for phoning it in a bit this week :sweat_smile:

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