I’ll join the listening challenge this time. Last week I got some ebook and audiobook sets to try “reading while listening” to see if it would improve my mental voice and reading speed, and already I can feel it helping so I want to continue.
I’m not fast or smooth enough at seeing words and phrases as chunks, especially when there are long strings of hiragana, or if it’s a long verb form like causative mixed with something. Sometimes I don’t understand because I’m not separating the written words/phrases correctly, and hearing it read aloud makes it easy to figure out. Also, from reading I’ve learned a lot of vocabulary and grammar which I haven’t heard spoken, and a lot of this is stuff that’s more common in books than speech so TV shows and Youtube don’t help enough. My mental voice is halting and jerky because my imagination doesn’t have enough reference for what I should be “hearing.”
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For now I have two book/audiobook sets to work on:
Honzuki volume 2
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ