Hi guys I was wondering, how do you all practice your Japanese listening skills? I have 0 grammar knowledge so that might be the thing that is stopping me from understanding even the most simple spoken sentence but I don’t have that much problem with written Japanese.
What do you guys say about this? Am I just dumb or is it normal or something else?
I think it’s fascinating that you manage to understand written Japanese without any grammar knowledge 
I’d say, studying grammar is essential to both reading and listening…
Still, judging by the fact that you can read Japanese without knowing any grammar, I would say that you are a person of practice rather than of theory. So, you might want to apply the same approach to listening and listen to podcasts. I highly recommend this one:
Still, I also highly recommend studying at least some grammar
i will try! Thank you for your answer
I was so tired when I first read this that I thought it read ‘Unspoken Japanese.’ Anyway, for grammar, I recommend this series:
I use JapanesePod101 (for the dialogues, not so much for the full lesson podcast), and an Anki deck for it to make me re-listen to the dialogues regularly.
I also use NativShark, which covers grammar and cultural points and has its entire SRS fully voiced by native speakers.
And on days when I feel like doing more, I might watch some videos on YouTube like on SpeakJapaneseNaturally and other stuff that shows up on my recommended, or (more recently) watch a Japanese dub of something on Disney+ or Crunchyroll.
Speaking of Japanese dubs, the following channels are almost always live on YouTube:
Also, you can always try italki or VRChat to practice speaking with someone
Minna no Nihongo comes with audio CDs. I am sure Genki has audio attached too.
Actually, at this point of 0 grammar, anything could work, so try just anything. What have you tried, and perhaps what you don’t like about things? That being said, being adaptive to what you don’t like at first might be the key.
Listening is going to be inherently harder for basically any learner who learns through written materials (e.g textbooks, wanikani, anki cards with text on them, websites with written examples sentences). Hearing → understanding and seeing → understanding are two different skills.
Possibly. But what is more likely is you just don’t listen enough and haven’t listened enough to understand.
It takes time, patience, and repetition. Listening took me a long time as I had dont everything through reading and very little through listening.