🔊 🎙 Listen Every Day Challenge - Winter 2023 ❄ 🧤

Feb 21, Tue of Week 9 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

So-matome N2 Listening Ch.4 [2/5]. Weather report. Traffic report.

聞くだけで一気にわかる日本史 : Post-war (end). I will probably re-listen, but prioritize ガラスのうさぎ first (re-listen?). Also probably read history texts first.

おいしいごはんが食べられますように [9/12].

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:snowflake: Day 52, 21st of February :snowflake:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Episode #45 of PiroPito Minecraft. This guy creating mangroves years before they were added to the game.

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February 21st!

Today I listened to 2 episodes of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
The first was about countries which are safe or unsafe, and the second was about Japanese Children.

(Home Post)

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I decided to restart 最愛 / Dearest (on Netflix now!) from the beginning since @omk3 reminded me of it. Ahhhh it’s as good as I remember. I just rewatched episode one today, which is ~an hour long and no time for anything else, but it’s kind of fun that I can tell my listening has jumped since I first watched it. I remember before I was barely hanging on during the dialect scenes and now they’re a breeze, no issue at all.
My other trouble spot was a scene in episode two or three with a lot of business talk. Curious to see how that goes this time around :thinking:

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:headphones: :desktop_computer: :sound: :snowflake: February 21

Listened to Teppei for beginners #57 and #58

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Feb 22, Wed of Week 9 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

So-matome N2 Listening Ch.4 [3/5]. In a university.

おいしいごはんが食べられますように [10-11/12].

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:snowflake: Day 53, 22nd of February :snowflake:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Episode #46 of PiroPito Minecraft.

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February 22nd!

Today I listened to Episode 2 of JapanesePod101’s Lower Intermediate Series 1.
The dialogue was about two friends comparing their bonuses - it was a pretty short dialogue in this episode, but I learned some new words from them breaking it down :slight_smile:

(Home Post)

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:headphones: :desktop_computer: :sound: :snowflake: February 22

Listened to Teppei for beginners #59 and played BU$TAFELLOWS ~1.5h

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Feb 23, Thu of Week 9 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

So-matome N2 Listening Ch.4 [4/5]. Services. Delivery.

おいしいごはんが食べられますように [12/12].

Gotta find what to listen to next. Youtube (Premium) probably works, but I need listen-only-ok channels.

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New マタタビムービーラボ!

This one was mostly understandable (and hilarious), though I’m finding that I mostly understand only through context with the animation and the handful of words I recognise in each sentence, full comprehension still seems like forever away.

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More big listening yesterday. First, I listened to a GLOBIS podcast about evidence based policy making and education policy. They were talking at break-neck speed, so much so that I started wondering if they sped up the episode to make it shorter?

For example this guy at 4:00. Boy is it exhausting to listen to. But still better than the guy in the other episode who spoke so unclear I coulnd’t understand him. :smiley:

Well, after that I listened to another episode about mindfulness and meditation, which was much more relaxed and also much easier to understand (less big politics words).

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:snowflake: Day 54, 23rd of February :snowflake:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Episode #47 of PiroPito Minecraft.

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February 23rd!

Just a tiny listen today since I ended up working pretty late.
An episode of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.

(Home Post)

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1 hour and a half thus far. Japanese with K and Miku Real Japanese podcasts. I understood most of the first podcast for JWK but then I barely got what he was talking about with ChatGPT. He speaks slowly but he was using a lot of new vocabulary. Miku Real Japanese, I understood most of her podcast as well since she spoke about humility in Japanese culture. Living here you really understand this.

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Watched Confidence Man JP プリンセス編 yesterday. It was really fun. I thought it was the first movie in the series but actually there was a movie before it and a drama series before that. Which explains why the characters seemed to have established pasts with each other. I won’t watch the drama since its not available for streaming except renting on Amazon (which I am not THAT in love with the series yet).

It is funny to listen to Japanese people pretend to be from Singapore by speaking English really badly. xD

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:headphones: :desktop_computer: :sound: :snowflake: February 23

Today it was just listening to the voice acting from playing BU$TAFELLOWS about 2h.

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Feb 24, Fri of Week 9 of Winter Q1 2023 :snowman::snowflake:

So-matome N2 Listening Ch.4 [5/5].

I listened to a few tracks of ガラスのうさぎ, which I am now reading somewhat intensively. I don’t find my listening improved in a significant way; not that I looked up a lot of vocabularies in reading either. Maybe comprehension is better if I listen more carefully.

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:snowflake: Day 55, 24th of February :snowflake:

:headphones: Back to my Home Post

Episode #49 of PiroPito Minecraft.

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February 22 :heavy_multiplication_x:

February 23 :arrow_forward:
Random half-finished youtube videos. Better than nothing.

February 24 :film_strip:
Rewatched the first episode of 最愛 without any subtitles. Some characters I understood fairly well, others almost not at all. My comprehension is definitely better than a few months ago, but still not at the level where I could watch something without subtitles and not miss important stuff.
Also another (subtitled) episode of Heaven and Hell.

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