Hey all,
Continuing on our challenge to ourselves to boost our listening skills, the April challenge is ready for signups! Set whatever number of hours feels like a reasonable goal for you and feel free to share the things you’re listening to, your successes and setbacks. We’re in this together 
All languages welcome!
This post will be a wiki so you can add and update your own hours.
First goal of 40, second goal of 60. March’s Challenge. Anything that’s spoken audio (with or without accompanying text) counts.
| Book | ch | text | Time |
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| 本好きの下剋上 1 | L32 | 知らない | アリ | 90 |
| ソードアート・オンライン4 フェアリィ・ダンス | L34 | 4-5 | アリ | 169 |
| わたしの幸せな結婚 | L31 | prologue + 1 (partial) | アリ | 25 |
| 裏世界ピクニック 1 ふたりの怪異探検ファイル | L33 | 2 (partial) | アリナシ | 46 |
| 明日の世界で星は煌めく 2 | L28 | intro - ch1 | アリ | 9 |
| ゲーム | エピソード | 時間 |
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| flowers | Part 2 (25 - 57) | 32 |
| Series | eps | Time |
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| Series | ep/ch | Time |
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| マリア様がみてる ドラマ CD 3 |
| Series | eps | Time |
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| 美少女戦士セーラームーン | L24 | 2-7, 9, 12, 16-18, 29-30 | 260 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーン R | L24 | 4-13, 16 | 200 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season II: Black Moon | L28 | 6-13 | 160 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season III: Death Busters | L28 | 5-13 | 180 |
| 桜蘭高校ホスト部 S1 | L27 | 1-12 | 240 |
| ロックは淑女の嗜みでして S1 | L30?? | 1-3 | 60 |
| ベルサイユのばら S1 | L36 | 1-40 | 800 |
| アン・シャーリー S1 | L30?? | 1-3 | 60 |
| Once Upon a Witch's Death S1 | L30?? | 1-3 | 60 |
| 薬屋のひとりごと S2 | L34 | 8-9 | 40 |
| 忍者と殺し屋のふたりぐらし S1 | L25?? | 1-2 | 40 |
| 赤毛のアン S1 | L29 | 1-14 | 280 |
| ポケットモンスター Indigo League | L23 | 3-8 | 20 |
| わたしの幸せな結婚 S1 | L30 | 3 | 20 |
| マリア様がみてる S1 | L27 | 1-11 | 220 |
| マリア様がみてる Specials | L27 | 1-6 | 9 |
| あさがおと加瀬さん。 | L22 | 1-3 | 57 |
| Summer Pockets S1 | L30?? | 1-2 | 40 |
| タイトル | エピソード | 時間 |
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| 螢の光 | 37 | |
| マリア様がみてる | L27 | 92 |
| シリーズ | ep | time |
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| Yotsuba-to! - いろいろなマンが | 7- | |
| Full Metal Alchemist read along | 1-3 | 94 |
| 【ささやくように恋を唄う】ボイスコミック～水族館、デート、そして～ | 23 | |
| Sayuri Saying vids | 38 | |
| 樫風 - 百合漫画家の恋バナラジオ | 2 | 124 |
| 白雪 巴 ガチ百合 | 5 (partial) | 45 |
| みさき (yuri-related vis) | 31 |
Reminder to self:
| Type | Goal | Min | Hrs |
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| Combined | 40/60 | 3709 | 61.8 |
| Non-anime | 20 | 847 | 14.1 |
eefara’s home post
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I listened this day, but didn’t hit the hour+ mark. : I listened to an hour or more this day!(Calendar stolen from the Listen Every Day Challenge on WK.)
Listening Log
Total time: 25h 13m 0s
04/02:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 30m
04/03:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 53s
04/04:
穏か貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 4m 5s
04/05:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 2h 31m
04/07:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h 17m 32s
04/08:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h 10m
04/09:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h
04/10:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 52m 15s
04/11:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h 8m 18s
04/12:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h 11m 45s
04/13:
わたしの幸せな結婚: 1h 18m 40s
04/16:
神様 (Read Real Japanese Literature): 11m 41s
04/16:
Chara 15th Anniversary Fair Present CD: 36m 12s
04/16:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep115: 20m 21s
04/01:
消えた初恋, ep 7-10: 92m
薬屋のひとりごと, ep 1: 23m
04/02:
桜蘭高校ホスト部, ep 1-2: 40m
04/06:
千と千尋の神隠し: 125m
04/14:
Devil May Cry (2025), ep 1-2: 1h
04/15:
Devil May Cry (2025), ep 3-6: 1h 35m
04/24:
Devil May Cry (2025), ep 7-8: 1h 62m
04/25:
ロマンティック・キラー, ep 1-3: 60m
04/26:
ロマンティック・キラー, ep 4-7: 80m
04/01:
100カノRADIO 第33回 ｜ TVアニメ『君のことが大大大大大好きな100人の彼女』公式ラジオ: 20m 22s
04/04:
Japanese Listening Practice - 3 Reasons Living in Tokyo Can Be Tough: 10m 54s
Street Photography in Japan【Asakusa】Let’s learn Japanese with street photograpy!!: 12m 10s
04/10:
最近読んだ春っぽい本を6冊紹介【2025年4月】: 17m 2s
04/14:
みんなが知っている超ベストセラーを紹介します【3冊】: 13m 13s
564 なぜ日本人は職場でおかしを配る？！ #日本語ポッドキャスト: 10m 40s
135m 22s + 1h 10m + 23m 4s + 1h 4m 5s + 2h 31m + 125m + 1h 17m 32s + 1h 10m + 1h + 17m 2s + 52m 15s + 1h 8m 18s + 1h 11m 45s + 1h 18m 40s + 1h 23m 43s + 1h 35m + 1h 8m 14s + 62m + 60m + 80m
Bonus Spanish listening:
04/04: 23m 54s
Bonus Mandarin listening:
04/04: 12m 35s
04/06: 31m 40s
04/07: 16m 31s
04/09: 13m 30s
04/14: 30m 20s
New to the Forums, not new to Japanese. Rather than rush in with a Learning Log or similar, I figured I’d join a challenge to keep myself motivated and accountable. I hope new people are welcome, if not, I will happily wait until I’ve been around longer.
I am preparing to a move back to Japan in 3 months, so I am doing an absolute ton of listening. I am setting a goal for 90 Hours, or 3 hours per day. I was able to blast past this in February and March, but I want to do slightly more reading in April.
Breath of the Wild Playthrough
【緋月ゆい/ネオポルテ】 Travel Videos (Youtube auto-translates the title, so I have no idea what the Japanese title is)
Total Time: 87h 13m
Of course!! Welcome to both the forums & the listening challenge! Glad to have you 
Good luck with the upcoming move! Feel free to add yourself to the table in the OP, with the following code, right below eefara’s line:
| [Triddy](https://forums.learnnatively.com/t/april-2025-listening-challenge/15508/4) | 日本語 | 90 | 0 |
Thank you for setting this up @暁のルナ!
@Triddy welcome to the forums! That’s an impressive goal, I’m sure it’ll help tons to get that much exposure before moving back to Japan.
I’ll join the challenge as well, but I want to prepare some resources before I set up my home post.
Welcome, Triddy! Glad to have you, and I look forward to seeing what you listen to. Good luck with your 90 hours; I think the only other person I’ve seen do such a high goal was @javerend, who did 100 hours in one month sometime last year, iirc?
Awesome! Looking forward to having you
It was! I did 100 hours of tracked listening last year in february, and it absolutely supercharged my listening ability and stamina. I hope you have fun doing this and I hope you can see some similar great results @Triddy !
Thanks @javerend !
I consider myself “Advanced” in Japanese already, but I mostly want to surprise my friends with my improvement when I get back to Tokyo. To that effect I’ve been consistently doing 6 hours a day of Japanese since Early January. Not all listening though.
Who knows if its helped, but I don’t have anything else going on right now, so it can’t hurt.
This seems to be a good time trying to push up my listening skills. I have some podcast episodes on JapanesePod101 I want to listen to and also some audio from SatoriReader.
Thanks, @eefara for the calendar template link. I will use this, too. Looks quite cute!
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Plan
Ugh, this is all of my listening practice encapsulated into one sentence, haha. I feel like I’m actually living one of those “do this for 5 minutes a day get fluent in a week!!!” shortcut articles since I can’t consciously feel any improvements until some time later.
I really like having a calendar; if I didn’t I’d definitely forget a day here or there just through being unable to remember what day it is.
Just stumbled across the Yuyu Podcast collaboration with SatoriReader 
As I wanted to listen on SatoriReader for this challenge, I directly added those goals. Wow, I’m looking forward to this collaboration. I like Yuyu’s podcast and SatoriReader so there is no chance it cannot be good
It’s sooo cool that they have those now!
I’ll join with a goal of 24h of non-anime Japanese — because if I could include anime, I think 24h may not be challenging enough. Bonus points for dialectal speech and live streams.
I will join in again, been doing relatively well with regular listening recently though I’ve not been tracking exact times.
My plan is to use my audiobooks alongside the physical books (or e-books if I use Harry Potter) and do read along sessions a chapter at a time, as well as the vocab audiobooks I have with sentences.
Going to aim for 30 hours as a start and 60 hours as a stretch goal. (Chapters are averaging about 20-30m)
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I’m a little late but Welcome 
I will say I’ve found the community here very welcoming, friendly and supportive.
Hope you enjoy it here and good luck in your challenge.
My time-tracking will most likely be very approximate, but I do want to get some listening done each day. Let’s aim for an average of 30 minutes a day!
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01 88’ | 02 34’ | 03 63’ | 04 17’ | 05 18’ | 06 30’ |
| 07 39’ | 08 17’ | 09 11’ | 10 15’ | 11 14’ | 12 108’ | 13 51’ |
| 14 20’ | 15 10’ | 16 10’ | 17 10’ | 18 36’ | 19 10’ | 20 75’ |
| 21 42’ | 22 6’ | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
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Ah Ah’s Korean Podcast: 1 episode
Didi’s Korean Culture Podcast: 3 episodes
I’m back!
I’ve been listening most days, but without quotas lately so I hadn’t been joining. I’m not going to set a quota this month either, but I will track and maybe make some challenges towards the end of the month.
Well I’ve started off by going back to episodes I skipped in 美少女戦士セーラームーン | L24 … But also I’m hoping to get more non-anime audio in this month. So reading the remaining portion of 本好きの下剋上~司書になるためには手段を選んでいられません~第一部「兵士の娘1」 | L32 with the audiobook at 1.5x (that only worked for the parts I’d already read)
