🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Winter 2023 ❄ 🧤

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I knew of the few different uses of the って form in Japanese, but I never quite understood all of the nuances and just kind of went with the flow and based my understanding on context when I heard it in conversation.
So I wanted to share the video that I found today that explains 7 different usages of って, including how to differentiate it based on pronunciation. This was really helpful for me, so maybe somebody else finds this useful, too! :blush:

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January 10 :film_strip:

A couple of episodes of Alice in Borderland today. They speak quite clearly most of the time. There’s even one character who speaks in Kansai-ben, and surprisingly, I find it much easier to understand when it’s spoken than when it’s written down.

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The trick is to sound it out in your head when reading :joy_cat: For me that’s about the only way to understand dialect (or contractions, fwiw).

Speaking of which, I’m currently listening to this episode of the Rebuild podcast:

and I’m having so much fun with the speaking style of one of the guests :rofl: with his constant じゃん and さあ. Even the host (who normally speaks really proper Japanese) starts using さあ halfway through :grin:

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Oh, I have that podcast on my set of feeds I’m subscribed to, but never got round to actually listening to any episodes :sweat_smile: Do you like it?

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Yes, I like it a lot! (But depending on the topic, I don’t get too much of what they are talking about, sometimes maybe only 50% or less? But sometimes I can actually understand quite a lot.) The episodes are pretty long (around 2 hours on average I guess) and in the beginning the host and his guest just chat about the recent events in the world and in IT, and then they switch to the actual topic. I think the host has a super-soothing voice, I could listen to him for hours on end… (not in the episode I linked above, though - he mentioned that he caught a cold and he sounds really strange to me.) Anyways, if you’re interested in IT/technology/gadgets then I can definitely recommend it.

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:snowflake: Day 10, 10th of January :snowflake:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Another spot the difference video today from Comprehensible Japanese. Took a while for me to start absorbing what was said because I’ve been distracted today. But it’s definitely helping in strengthening my understanding of sentence structures.

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January 10th!

Two more Origami videos. Both were to make little envelopes to put notes inside. One has a cat on it, and the other had a heart. The heart one came out a bit wobbly, but I’m really pleased with the kitty!

I also listened to episode 102 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

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Day 10 - Nihongo Con Teppei episode 3, Sakura Tips episode 7 on 和食。 I also tried the first episode of Learn Japanese from Real Talks which was interesting since it was a bit faster and two people talking together. I evidently had added it to my Spotify library at some point and forgotten until today.

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I started Harry Potter 1 in Japanese last night and have 30 minutes left. I only understand 5% of the spoken Japanese but as I have read the books once and have watched the movies about twice each I know what is happening and so I intend to watch all in Japanese. I am still doing podcasts and Crayon Shin Chan (this one I use with language reactor) but podcasts have been boring to me this week. I do not listen to them in English and only use them for Japanese as they are the most comprehensible.

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I finished the N1 practice listening exam I started last night and remember how I said it felt more like a test of endurance than anything? Of the last 10 questions I did yesterday, I got 7 of them wrong. I got 11 out of 35 wrong overall. It’s pretty obvious when my patience/interest is flagging :skull:
But still, 68% for my first attempt at N1 listening is better than I expected. Some questions felt super easy, some, especially those involving people talking about office stuff, I was barely keeping up. I think if I work on this I can fix the endurance issue and bring the overall score up in time.

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Today it was just one episode of Nihongo con Teppei for beginners as well.

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:loud_sound: :snowboarder: softlyraining’s listening corner :headphones: :mountain_snow:

January 10th

I had so many goals today: relisten to the first 3 episodes of The Jam Maker, start watching Kimi ni Todoke…ultimately, I just did the 4th episode of Jam Maker. Maybe tomorrow.

As an aside, the 4th episode has the narrator vividly describing her eating toast, and I kind of wish I treated the simplicities of life like they were luxuries more. Makes everything seem more :sparkles: magical :sparkles:

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:headphones: :desktop_computer: :sound: :snowflake: January 10

Listened to Teppei for beginners #12 and played BU$TAFELLOWS for half an hour.

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Jan 11, Wed of Week 3 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

So-matome N3 Listening Ch.2 [3/6]. As often with this series, I listened twice. However, longer listening then answering can be a little challenging. Answer keys = transcripts, help a lot.

君の膵臓をたべたい Ch.4 [4/5]. I realize that I want to learn whatever way in advance to improve my listening. (I might confess that I still don’t understand much.) jpdb.io should help with vocabularies, especially for having an accompanying LN (and exact line-by-line). And structures and grammar can be learned elsewhere, as I have tried to start.

The jpdb.io summary

nvm. I managed 20 cards per day just now.

Previously, no new cards for a while.

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:snowflake: Day 11, 11th of January :snowflake:

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Another try at the Teppei episode I had trouble with (#9). Understood it a bit better, but it’s difficult to get used to how foreign words are pronounced in Japanese. ハンバーガー is one of the easier ones and I still get confused.

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January 11 :arrow_forward: :film_strip:

Today I retried the video linked by @pocketcat a few days ago, and I did better with it. I’m not saying I understood much, but it didn’t sound like a completely unknown language this time. :sweat_smile: In fact I understood most of the words, it’s just that the speed was such I just didn’t have any time to connect them. The walk in the book shop was fun. I wish I could easily visit a Japanese book shop. Oh well.

I also watched a video review of ぼぎわんが、来る by ペキョ. He speaks much slower and I find him much easier to undertand.

And an episode of Alice in Borderland. A lot of talking this time, so subtitles to the rescue.

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Yay improvement! :smiley: Out of curiosity, do you ever try watching the videos at a slower playback speed, ex .75? I wonder if that would help or just feel unnatural

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January 11th!

Just a tiny bit of listening today, Episode 103 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

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今日は…

  • Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners Ep. 102 + 103. The beginning of 103 was a throwback, wasn’t it, @lucylavelle? :smiley:
  • Sakura Tips Ep. 4. This podcast is kinda weird for me - I feel like she is talking slower than Teppei, but she keeps using more vocab that I don’t know yet, so it’s actually more stressful for me. I’m looking forward to when the transcripts start (I think it was episode 14 or so), because I really dislike not being able to figure out words.
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I watched an incredibly boring interview where they asked a guy (actor) how it feels to be an イケメン. Riveting content :upside_down_face:

I browsed through a youtube search with インタビュー but nothing really caught my eye. I also reviewed 3 of the N1 exam listening questions from the test I did earlier.

edit: oh also ‘Blinded Kiss’ is now on Viki and I recall it being pretty easy to follow. It’s PG-13 or R for sexual content though I imagine. It was also very, very dumb. Low-ish effort and fun. I just watched the first few minutes again to check and if you exclude the intro scene which is all fancy talk, the bulk of the show is pretty standard dialogue.

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