3 Episodes Nihongo con Teppei Z (yay~ might be a new record) as well as 2 episodes of the beginner podcast. After listening to Teppei Sensei for this long, I really start feeling like listening to a friend while catching up, that might be one of the reasons why it’s easy to stick to this podcast. There is a lot I want to listen too, but on a busy day, this is just my comfort-listening exercise afterall.
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Day 10, ７ 月 １０ 日 
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Comprehensible Japanese
Starting the new playlist! Once again the videos are on stories I already know, so keeping engaged is a bit hard… Hopefully there is some variety in content.
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Day 10! On my usual Splatoon video listening grind, watched a stream for a while this morning. This woman is a more average player, probably closer to my level, and chill enough I don’t have to worry about her suddenly screaming when something happens usually, haha. Not so bad to understand overall so I watch her a decent bit, though the way she’s responding to chat can make conversations hard to keep up with sometimes because I don’t try to split my attention to reading seperate Japanese while listening to Japanese, heh 
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July 10th!
Today I watched episode 4 of Shadows House. It’s really fun watching it after reading the manga, and getting to see the same scenes in slightly different ways 
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7月10日 (月)
Today I listened to:
Tanaka Radio 4 and 5 (~17 min)
Learn JP with Noriko 6 (4 min)
YUYU 14 (鶴の恩返し) (~15 min)
Kurzgesagt - フェルミのパラドックス - エイリアンはどこにいる？(3 min)
できる猫は今日も有痛 - Episode 1
Wow, today was an incredibly productive day and I think it will be the most productive day this coming week for me, which is a bit sad.I enjoyed the episode of YUYU (which was actually hosted by Kaito and Akane), it was nice hearing about the folklore! Also funny for me, as someone who follows Akane’s podcast as well - I wonder if her guest presence was before she started her regular podcast. As for Kurzgesagt, I was planning to divide this week’s part in half, but I didn’t have much trouble and managed to finish the video.
I’ve been wanting to get back into some anime, but taking the big leap was the hardest part for me - I rarely watch series/movies, and it’s been a couple of years since I really watched regular anime. So watching the 1st episode of できる猫は今日も有痛 - and understanding most of it without subs - made me feel great! I’ll definitely try to keep up with it weekly and see if I can start watching one or two series alongside.
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Time to check in. (I have time to check in) I missed some great conversations in the first 10 days! Dubbed Biohazard 3 and Deadpool movies, Mahjong and Japanese Film Clubs, and of course my favorite Ghibli as well, Porco Rosso! I’ve been keeping my listening streak going with Zero Escape, repeats of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Gold Bug, and a couple viewings of The Wizard of Oz.
Oh, I had never seen Japanese dubbed Sponge Bob before. Fantastic.
Mahjong: On the “wants to learn” list
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Haha, it’s so funny because having a live chat actually makes it easier for me to follow what’s going on during wrestling streams. I guess it’s probably because my listening comprehension is generally pretty poor, and often the jp fans in the chat will repeat words or lines that they found particularly funny, so it’ll help me catch stuff that I missed when it was said initially. Or the fans will discuss the implications of something, and that can help me put together enough details to figure out what was said.
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That makes sense too! Personally I’ve become kinda like you in laser focusing on Splatoon listening for a while now, so I’ve got the relevant sort of words to talk about painting, movement, (dis)advantages, etc down super well, and all the specific to the game terms. So the chat side of it just takes it off to other sorts of conversations and gets me more lost, y’know? Obviously a pretty different experience when it’s a stream with someone directly talking to chat vs chat just commenting on something.
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taiyousea’s listening challenge 
→ my study log
July 10th:
天気の子『小説』Ch. 1, Part 1/9 (6:41)
I had to pivot to only listening to class materials last week to prepare for an exam. I felt wayyyy more confident during the listening portion of my exam after just one week of this challenge than I have for any listening exam before! My goal since starting has been an easy “over 5 minutes, preferably 10 minutes, per day” and it’s kinda crazy how little it takes to start building confidence in your listening skill.
But I’ve come back to my book and just listened to a short section of Ch. 1 today. I went to a Japanese pop culture shop last Friday with a friend and had to stop myself from buying a big 天気の子 film poster. I haven’t even gotten to the bulk of the book yet! ! But I was just excited to see it in the wild (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟI can’t wait to watch the movie after finishing the book!
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Ooooh I did dubbed Biohazard 1,2 and 3 and doing Deadpool 1 now. Are we best Japanese learning friends now? 
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７月１０日 (Home Post Link)
Forgot to update yesterday but i just watched some japanese climbing videos before bed, nothing too interesting but hit my 10 minutes
Listened:
- yuyu 14, 15, 16 (1)? - Listened at work again, so I kinda lost track of what was happening sometimes but it looks like the episode numbering system changes here and we go back to episode 1? I hope that doesn’t mean we lose our friends, I really enjoyed listening to the conversation episodes vs when the episodes were just yusuke talking alone. I’ll probably keep listening though, since spotify seems pretty limited for japanese language podcasts (at least in the US), and I do like listening to this more than like teppei
I guess, when I go to look for podcasts in english, the way I usually find them is through recommendations from either other podcasts or from specific topics. But the kind of stuff I listen to in English (revolutions, 99pi, some other history and linguistics podcasts, technical music/sound engineering stuff) would go way over my head if i were to try to seek those out in japanese 
Anyone know a kid-friendly japanese language history podcast or something? Maybe I should just bite the bullet and get youtube premium, a lot of the channels I follow do ラジオ or podcast stuff that isn’t anywhere else 
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2 episodes of YUYU Nihongo Podcasts intensively so that took me an hour and a half.
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Spotify Playlist (Chillout) (not just japanese) But pretty nice for listening at work.
Listening is no challenge for me. I just do it. Music. And netflix. These days watch Ōoku: The Inner Chambers. It’s netflix Germany. So I am not sure if you can watch it in the US.
Just realized that spotify does not share MY Chillout playlist. Too bad. It’s pretty decent. I guess. At least for me. At work. 
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Oh, no need to worry about that but I was going to recommend the dubbed version of Aliens / エイリアン２. I imported that BluRay recently. Probably the highest production value BluRay I’ve come across. Not to mention the excellent extended Directors cut
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Havent seen this in years. I have to pay to rent or buy it so not sure if its worth it 
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One more day done.
I lost track where I started listening today, but I caught up to episode #25 of Nihongo con Teppei Z. I at least listened to 4 episodes, but I kinda lost track while taking a walk today. (Which I will totally count as weird win).
Sometimes it’s hard to understand everything, I might be at around 80 percent most of the time. I would definitely hope for something close to 90 or 95% at the end of this challenge, even though that might be catching stars at the moment.
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Day 11, ７ 月 １１ 日
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Comprehensible Japanese
It may be still content for beginners, but it differes from the material for absolute beginners in that there are several more steps/verbs/states with less repetitions. So it’s already a bit more challenging.
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７月１１日
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト #87～88 (28 min)
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７月１１日 (Home Post Link)
Listened:
- 【Melatonin】深夜にまったり～～かわいい音ゲー？【ホロライブ/大神ミオ】 - YouTube - was getting ready for work and saw mio was playing a rhythm game that I really really like, so I watched about the last half hour of her stream before I had to leave. This game is so cozy, big rhythm heaven vibes (which mio also remarked on). I actually got to meet the devs for this game at PAX last year and play a demo in the indie section, so it’s cool to see it starting to get some more traction (and a japanese translation, apparently )
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