Day 25, 25th of January
Some more casual listening to PiroPito play Minecraft, episode #31 - #35.
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January 25th!
Today I listened to Lesson 17 of JapanesePod101’s Upper Beginner Season 1.
It focused on some types of announcement you might hear on trains, and also went over how to use the humble verb 参る.
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I watched the first ~30 min of the Utena movie with the director’s commentary on instead of the normal audio. Main take away: 「えええええええ。。。そうですね。ええ。」
It’s mildly interesting but lots of filler. Work went long though and I’m mentally exhausted. Think outside of Anki that’s all I got for today. 
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January 25
Another low effort day, listened to Teppei for beginners #29
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Jan 26, Thu of Week 5 of Winter Q1 2023 
So-matome N3 Listening Ch.4 [4/6]. Comparison, what near and what first.
A Kanken Lv 2.5 quiz. Somehow, 戻る is here.
ガラスのうさぎ [5/18].
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Stumbled upon this series of videos that is both a listening practice and shadowing/speaking practice. It uses easy Japanese in everyday situations, and it has Japanese subtitles to accompany the dialogue 
コンビニで使える日本語フレーズ【リスニング練習】
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January 25 
January 26 
I didn’t listen to anything yesterday, I decided to prioritize sleep instead. 
To make up for it, today I tried the かがみの孤城 audiobook again, but I quickly grew tired of that timid, whiny voice the actress uses. So then I tried the Read Real Japanese Essays cd, and I’m still surprised this book is supposed to be for learners. The reading was fast, with no pauses or filler that dialogue usually offers (of course, these were essays), so while I understood separate words, they were just that: rows of words. I hardly knew when one essay finished and another started. So I listened passively for a while, then grew tired of that too.
Later I watched the ミステリと言う勿れ episode I had left unfinished, and that went much better listening-wise, as I often didn’t even glance at the subtitles. Content-wise, it was harder though. With abused children and a murdered cat, it certainly wasn’t my favourite episode.
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Listened to a short news podcast on ドイツとアメリカがウクライナに戦車の供与を発表. It was only ten minutes, but I’ve been really slacking on news and news vocab lately.
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It’s actually way better than most audiobooks with younger female characters 
Some of them go so high with their voice to sound “young” it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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Day 26, 26th of January
Some more PiroPito. Episode #36.
Starting to think about what else I’ll use for listening. I want to save Teppei for intensive listening, so I might just put on some Let’s Plays in the background for further extensive listening. PiroPito is very soft spoken and hard to understand.
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I have very limited audiobook experience, but even I have noticed that. Most young female voices are unbearably irritating
At least the timid voice in かがみの孤城 isn’t anything like that, but it still sometimes makes me want to slap some self-confidence into her. I don’t know if I can bear 20 hours of this, but then that will only be a problem when I start properly understanding what she’s talking about 
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January 26 
Home Post
Little tiny listen 
Missed yesterday and today I’m counting listening to the sentences when doing a few of lessons on Torii. Not a very existing thing. But I wanted to count it because I did take the time to actually listen in and try to follow them without reading the text first/simultaneously.
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January 26th!
Work has been tiring this week, so I settled for a tiny bit of listening today.
I listened to episode 109 of Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners.
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I was browsing my Audible wishlist as I have some credits and I’m thinking I’ll do read+listen on some upcoming flights and wanted a variety to choose from incase I get bored (long flights). I decided to look up reviews to help me choose and found this woman’s review of 花束は毒. She speaks very clearly and has hard JP subs on the video. The story sounds interesting enough, although from the description I’m not sure it’d qualify as scary to me? We’ll see.
I looked up the author and I don’t know them other than their book 記憶屋 being on some list I watched. It made enough of an impression that I recalled the title, but not enough that I put it in my 読みたい list.
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This was one of the things I watched today. It was certainly something…
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The past 4 days:
- 月
- 1x Comprehensible Japanese Beginner
- 火
- 1x Comprehensible Japanese Beginner
- 水
- 1x Comprehensible Japanese Beginner
- A “JP gaming and grammar” session in the Kotoba Miners discord server (here’s an invite!). We started with a bit of introductions and grammar, and then our host streamed Escape Simulator (set to Japanese) while we talked with him and each other about what he should do in the game to solve the puzzles. The whole thing lasted 1 1/2 hours, was ~2/3 in Japanese and 1/3 in English, and really fun!
- 木
- 1x Comprehensible Japanese Intermediate
- A bit of non-serious “this is too hard so I don’t even have to try to understand everything and worry about paying attention” Miku Real Japanese Podcast listening while shopping.
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Once again the book looked familiar and I wasn’t sure why. I think I’ve seen it mentioned in the Natively forums somewhere? It does look vaguely interesting.
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Looks like one person rated it on Natively and gave it 3 stars, but with no review and no common books with them that’s not really meaningful to me.
I added it to my Audible wishlist ages ago based on “ooh pretty cover”. I’m not sure if I’ve seen it in any reviews… 
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Yeah, no review. I searched for it on the forum there, and it’s on a difficulty ranking list. I think I had looked up the books in the list individually to see if any were interesting to me, and I had the same reaction as you: “ooh pretty cover”.
It was in this thread Ranking 2022 Reads by Difficulty - Reading - Natively Forums, but without any information on the book it’s not very useful on its own. 
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Same old routine. Took the dog out at lunchtime and listened to my podcast playlist. Listened to a new episode of Teppei in the evening about how he eats a lot of western food and doesn’t have any miso in his house. So don’t expect any miso soup when visiting Casa Teppei.
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