Yesterday + today (I’m too lazy to separate them out)
Watched 名探偵コナン episodes 226 and 227 today. I guess I was understanding about 70% for each of them?
At least, I think I was understanding about that much. It was a bit hard to tell at points, given the recurring character that gets introduced in these episodes. Jodie Starling - voiced by a Japanese voice actor, who is playing an American character, who is actually fluent, but pretending to speak spectacularly awful Japanese. So what you get (at least to my ears) is a character who spends most of her early appearances speaking horrifically butchered Japanese interspersed with equally butchered English, but occasionally slips into perfect Japanese… I’ve re-watched this series multiple times now, and I never quite know how to react to her…
I have been starting to wonder if I should try to change things up every once in a while, and watch or listen to something other than コナン sometimes… I’m just not quite sure what, yet… 
1月9日(木)
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト#337
日本語で「彼」「彼女」を使わない理由
約28分
Good episode on the many different ways you can refer to people in Japanese
4989 American Life Podcast
#9 日本から親戚がきた！
約30分
#304 何語で夢をみる？
約33分
Relistened to #9 for Podcast Club
Kiri Tokyo Podcast #53
方言
約32分
Big listening day as I had to kill time waiting for a late afternoon 
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Another short day as I’m a little low energy after work. Continuing my search for an “easy listening” podcast and landed on Akane. Three parts to this episodes about tips for Japanese conversation, the third of which turned into a iTalki promo, so maybe not the best episode for figuring out effectiveness. My podcast reader numbers everything in the feed, but I see there’s other long podcast labelled episodes so maybe I’ll give one of them a go tomorrow.
January 9th Today I listened to
Episodes 16-19, I listened to them while doing a low effort task, so I counted them for half time 
2025-01-09
Two SpeakJapaneseNaturally videos, one I have seen before and one I haven’t.
Japanese Pod 101 LIS5 Ep#6
A useful video about drinking that covers the Nara conditional and reviews the Tara conditional as well.
飲んだら乗るな。乗るなら飲むな。
1月10日(金)
Thinking in Japanese Podcast 22/2/21
口語的な日本語のリスニングについて
約8分
ゆるキャン (アニメ)
S3 Ep3
約23分
おやすみスートーリ#1
おほしさま
5分
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト#338
あなたの性格は「個性」？「きゃら」？
約24分
Think in Japanese すったもんだカルチャー6/1/25
ダイエットはマインドセットが大事！
約25分
Another comprehensible Japanese video.
How I feel after my first week back in work after the holidays:
Still, got an episode of Non Non Biyori in, even if it would normally be 2.
First time ever trying a challenge on the Wanikani community, I’m hoping it goes well.
Been taking Jap at school for 5 years, but only reached about the N4 Level (unofficial). My reading comprehension skills are much better than my listening or speaking skills, which is why I’m going to attempt this challenge and hopefully increase my listening comprehension/skills in general.
To watch an ep of Ace of Diamond (AoD) (anime) every day, repeating the same ep 3 times a day (alternating w/ and w/o subtitles). I chose AoD as I haven’t watched it in about 4 years and would like to recap myself on it. My alternative plan is to watch Yuyu’s Jap podcast and see what I can learn this way, but I’m planning on just listening to the podcast as a warmup before AoD.
I’ve decided to start on 12th of Jan as I just spent 7 hours of my day catching up on Wanikani that have stacked up after a 3 week holiday and I’m super duper tired.
As I mentioned above, this is my first time doing a challenge in the community and am unsure of how/what I’m usually meant to do, but I’ll keep active (hopefully) and learn from what others are doing to make this run more smoothly.
I apologize for the lengthy response, and thank you in advance for any encouragement or advice!!
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2025-01-10
I now understand why Level 3 puts season 5 after season 6. I think this is the first podcast where I’m thinking I might need to listen to it again tomorrow!
This is the hide details option in the settings at the top right of your text box. Here’s what it looks like:
Awesome, thanks so much
January 10th Today was
Two comprehensible Japanese videos. One was a conversation and the other was a reading of the first chapter of 坊ちゃん
More of the なつめさんち mega 2024 gaming video. I have less than a half hour of it left!! And then I think they have a mega 2024 video of their art channel muahahah1月9日 - watched 名探偵コナン episodes 228 and 229, and understood maybe 60-70% of each.
1月10日 - watched the 5th movie in the series, 名探偵コナン天国へのカウントダウン. This was a full length movie, at a little over an hour and half. When I was actually focused, I was understanding around 70%, but my attention flagged somewhere in the middle, so there were parts I basically missed entirely. I didn’t get much sleep last night, which was probably the problem… I maybe should have chosen something shorter or easier to listen to today…
1月11日(土)
SR クロースアップ: 座間遺体事件
第1話~第11話
Just listened to a Satori Reader Story in its entirety after reading it - something different from my usual listening!
And the first anime of the year is finished with Non Non Biyori! I’d intended to also watch this week’s Dungeon Meshi also, but ran out of time.
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