july 10 
home post
Started off this morning with a couple episodes of Nihongo con Teppei. My strategy so far with this listening challenge has been to only listen to each episode once (unless I get distracted of course, then I relisten). If I understand then I understand, if I don’t I don’t. So far it’s worked well, I usually understand anywhere from about 60% to 80% I think?
Then just now I listened to a few minutes of Bite Size Japanese, but I found myself reading the subtitles instead of really listening. Reading subtitles is helpful when listening, but right now I really want to strengthen my ability to understand without subtitles, so for now I think I’m going to focus on Nihongo con Teppei and Comprehensible Japanese since I can follow along with those better without subs.