🔉 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge (Summer Edition) 🏖

August 23rd!

Another 3 episodes of Teasing Master Takagi-san today.
Only 3 more episodes left of Season 2 now!

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August 23 :blossom: Home Post

Truly the bare minimum today, just a few minutes of a let’s play so I could go to bed :joy:

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So I got busy and got behind with updating my listening efforts… (Last updated about a month ago)

Anyway… Today… I joined a language exchange and mostly just listened in and watched some children’s stories on YouTube.

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I listened to an episode of さくら通信 “about” the movie I watched not long ago, スマホを落としただけなのに. Specifically the movie rather than the book. They immediately talked about how neither had seen it and then spent the vast majority of 50 minutes slamming two movie titles together to create imagined films like スマホを落としただけなのに…硫黄島からの手紙 (I just dropped my cell phone but… letters from Iwo Jima), in which someone loses their phone at the beach but they start receiving letters from someone on said island who found it. The audience will of course be moved to tears by the kindness of strangers crossing over oceans. The whole thing reveled in specifically not matching the actual contents of the involved movies, and half the humor in this podcast is the awkward pauses and attempts to move on after their weird borderline anti-jokes.

It was fun! I didn’t follow all of it, sometimes because I didn’t know the titles being referred to, but I got enough. It’s nice that there are quite a few episodes in this kind of format, where I don’t have to worry about a developing story across a conversation I might miss. Every few minutes they’re jumping to a new terrible movie concept so I can just understand what I do and then move on.

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August 24th!

Just a little bit of listening so far today - Episode 50 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
I’m hoping to watch Teasing Master Takagi-san a bit later too though, if I can find the time :slight_smile:

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:sound: Listening Room: Date 20220824 :loud_sound:

Day LXIV: ピカピカピカ :zap: :zap:

I watched a couple episodes of Pokemon :durtle_yellow_rodent:

I was gonna watch an NHK vid too, but the website’s changed (or I went wrong somewhere) either way I don’t have the time now to try and navigate in Japanese, so I’ll have to check it out tomorrow.

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LEDC
Week 9

8月24日

  • あの人の毎日 ep 3.
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I’m just checking in to say that I have been listening to things but mostly re-listening to things or listening to creators I’ve already mentioned so opting to not post daily. I’m lately not in a mood for ‘new’. Also stopped watching Masquerade Hotel because it got to a scene / series of scenes I’d already watched and I just hate it so much and don’t want to rewatch it.
Doesn’t spoil the mystery at all, but all the same: Basically the main detective, acting as a front desk worker, gets treated terribly and rudely by a customer for an extender period of time. I did my years in customer service and have dealt with such people and as a result I was dying inside watching it the first time and don’t want to watch it again :see_no_evil:

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August 24 :blossom: Home Post

Mostly an in-class listening day today, though I snuck in a bit of a let’s play too. Still settling into being busy again but I’m getting there!

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:sound: Listening Room: Date 20220825 :loud_sound:

Day LXV: チェンジ・ザ・ワールド!! :earth_asia:

I managed to find the videos again on the NHK website
(it wasn’t really that difficult, I was just being lazy yesterday)

But this was in the arts and crafts section, this one is all about making things with stuff you find in nature :fallen_leaf:
there is every kind of stick emoji imaginable, yet there’s not a actual stick stick

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Week 9

8月25日

  • 三本塾 grammar video.

Linking for the curious:

That’s an interesting grammar point, I don’t think I’ve seen it. Now I’m sure I’ll see it everywhere.

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August 25th!

Another tiny listening day today, work has been crazy busy lately so I’m kind of wiped out most evenings - but also I went to see a play this evening so I had less time than usual.
I listened to Episode 51 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
I also listened to some Japanese music today, but that was pretty passive as I was doing a lot of other stuff at the same time!

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Aug 26, Fri of Week 9 of Summer :beach_umbrella: 2022

I am now at HUNTER×HUNTER Ep.21, but indeed Ep.19-21 isn’t in manga Vol.3.

About consistency thing, I missed out on Wednesday, listening and watching for only about 10 minutes.

I started watching かぐや様は告らせたい S3 Ep.1-2 (no sub), where remember the manga well even if I haven’t read for months. I also have subtitle files, so I broke it down into flashcards in mochi.cards (via API and programming, which I have to pay 5 USD (per month) first, but at least I don’t have to deal with Anki’s full-sync on new fields and desktop-Android differences. Also, mochi.cards’s website works similar to apps, but Yomichan-enabled.) (So, @anon87128043, if you want to know. A little complex for your needs, I think.) The flashcards don’t have translation on the back-side, because I don’t have English transcripts yet. (Nor do I need the translation.)

I also read about ~まい, which is N2 (searched via Bunpro), but who cares – it is required for reading and listening. They are made into sentence flashcards, with English translation and explanation.

In any case, I want to quickly learn how to translate (and understand) well first, rather than flawless production.

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Yeah thanks for letting me know

August 25 :blossom: Home Post

I got caught up doing other things so we’re counting some bare minimum today; one of my professors spoke in Japanese for a bit and I understood the vast majority of it so yay! Hopefully with weekend coming up I can get some more substantial stuff in, but I’ll take what I can get :man_shrugging:

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:headphones: Main Station :beach_umbrella:

Since my last update, I’ve watched a couple more Daily Japanese with Naoko videos, including one aimed at speaking practice (getting pumped for September’s speaking/writing challenge :triumph:).

The last few days I’ve mostly been focusing on Satori Reader. My usual pattern is 1) listen only 1 or 2 times; 2) listen while reading the text; 3) read the text and add any new words to the site’s flashcard system. I’ve run into a few instances where I don’t understand something the narrator said in step 1, only to get to step 2, see what they’re saying, and understand. :disappointed: I think that’s what’s most frustrating for me sometimes: not picking up on words I clearly know (as well as having my brain go, “I know that!” and not pay attention to what comes next). It’s good to be aware of, though I don’t know a solution to it other than, “keep listening.” Then again, maybe I don’t need to make it any more complicated than that (not one of my better traits, anyway).

For those looking to do some light speaking practice:

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:sound: Listening Room: Date 20220826 :loud_sound:

Day LXVI: 音楽 :musical_score:

NHK video, all about POWERFUL music and how it works.

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August 26th!

Today I had a class with one of my tutors, with lots of conversation practise but also a listening exercise where I had to listen to a conversation and then answer comprehension questions about it.

I also listened to an episode of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

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Yesterday I binged a Netflix show about a guy who developed the ability to read minds because he was still a virgin at 30. Very campy and stupid, but fun. 7 hours later, I had watched the whole thing and I wasn’t even tired from consuming only Japanese the whole time (I had Japanese subtitles on)

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August 26 :blossom: Home Post

I had class today so lots of listening (and speaking!) practice; it’s nice to have some more structured learning sometimes :grin:

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