August 1st:
Finished 天国の犬ものがたり~笑顔をあげに~ | L21 but can only count about 60 minutes since I had already started it before August. These books break me everytime. There is always at least 1 story that makes me cry. How are these for kids? 
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Sounds like you listened to it three times 
You probably meant イン・ザ・プール?
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August 2nd:
Listened to 放課後ミステリクラブ 1金魚の泳ぐプール事件 | L22 today. 2 hours done. Interesting idea. Author wished they could read mysteries as a child but they were not accessible, so they wrote a mystery that follows the structure of adult mysteries but without the murder and with furigana. 
Funnily enough, it’s by the same author as @cat 's favourite medical mystery series.
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I read a lot of his books. He’s very easy to read and his characters don’t annoy me. The men aren’t pervy and the women don’t exist to be ogled. Everyone has emotions and internal motivations. It’s nice, and it’s not heavy handed. Just “well, this is how the real world is”.
I do sometimes wonder about all the doctors falling in love with patients though… (he’s a doctor in real life)
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I fixed it 
mobile and discourse don’t match
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I’m in! Count me for 30hrs - Korean.
While I do get a lot of general conversation and listening in my 3 hour classes, my listening still isn’t where I want it to be. I’m already doing an hour of intense listening a day, so might as well join you all.
I’m still frustrated when I hang out with koreans how little I understand, even after what must be hundreds of hours of listening… it’s still really bad 
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I’m doing mainly YouTube and focusing on nearly 100% comprehension… meaning one to two passes with no subs, then one pass with subs, then a final pass without subs.
My main channels right now are:
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Great to have you!
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I did a similar thing with books starting out training my ears! One chapter/section of the audiobook with no text, then relisten with the text, then no text again. It helped a lot! 
I also used Subs2SRS to make audio flashcards which helped a ton as well, but I’m not sure how accessible Korean media is for making those cards 
But iirc you can make them from downloaded Youtube videos too
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Welcome!! 
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I got some more chapters of volume 6 done today. I have another long bus ride ahead of me in a couple of days, so I should hopefully be able to finish the volume within a week.
| Volume | Progress | % |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | ■■■■■■■■■■ | 100% |
| 6 | ■■■■□□□□□□ | 40% |
| 7 | □□□□□□□□□□ | 0% |
| Total | ■■■□□□□□□□ | 32% |
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Do you have yes/no trackers or do you track amounts?
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All of mine are yes/no because I want the friction to be as low as possible for me day to day (or I’ll stop doing it, I know myself )
You can do measurable goals though, and the unit of measurement is one you write in yourself.
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Bookmarked your post for future investigation. I enjoy watching people play horror games.
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Listen to another 52 minutes of and finished 華麗なる探偵アリス&ペンギン | L22 . Cute story; I wish I had the second one on hand to start.
I still need to listen to about another 44 minutes of audio to hit my average daily goal, but I’m really tired… Not sure what would be good low-effort to listen to.
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Day 2:
Completed “Japanese with Shun” episodes 5-8, another 3 short stories and re-listened to むかし夕日の公園で. All in, around 51 minutes.
The podcasts are around 5-10 minutes each, short stories are all under 7 minutes so far and むかし夕日の公園で is just over 5 minutes.
I’ll be doing more across next week but I’ve been doing more than I normally do for active listening across the last few weeks.
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Listened to chapter 9 of the audiobook for the first Harry Potter, which was 44:44! Normally a book like that would be way above my listening level, but I know it so well it makes up for the high level. I’ll probably use this as a last resort kind of thing; it ends up being a bit boring to listen to, given my familiarity + missing quite a bit. Saying that, I would like to slowly make my way through the first four books at some point or another.
Total for the day: ~97 minutes
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74 minutes of listening today, I might be able to sneak some more in but I kind of doubt it. I finished listening to 三姉妹探偵団 (eh) and started ノーマンズランド | L30?? which judging by the summary I read is a police procedural series where each book is a different case.
So far it seems pretty easy, low 30s is my guess at the moment for difficulty? But we’re entirely in the setup and haven’t had a chance to hit any police/crime vocab yet so I’ll reserve judgement for now. It’s also ~13 hours long, so a much bigger time investment than the last audiobook.
Also, dropping some channels here (Japanese) as listening inspo (lol) for people:
https://www.youtube.com/@KIYOisGOD Lots of game play with commentary, no face shown iirc.
https://www.youtube.com/@kiokutekisansaku room tours and such. Unlike most in this genre, there is actually talking!
https://www.youtube.com/@稲妻サンダーボルトのYouTube comedy duo that does short (<5 min) skits. Typically not super fast talking, more about silly situations than word play in most of their bits.
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August 2nd - 3.5 hours
2.5 hours of イン・ザ・プール | L31 at 1.5x speed
20 minutes of YouTube
40 minutes of 斜陽 | L38
I think I’ll finish イン・ザ・プール | L31 tomorrow. It is kind of similar to ララピポ in that it’s full of pathetic people and comedic charm, but it’s missing all the chaotic porn references. I enjoyed the second story about a man who ends up with a permanent erection lol 
that would be an unfortunate life development if it were to happen, huh? The audiobook has good voice acting and is fun so I’ll probably move on to the next one in the series.
斜陽 | L38 is my second full length 太宰治 novel after 人間失格. I am listening to the version read by 西村俊彦 and I just have to say, he is a great voice actor. I think this is the fourth audiobook I’ve listened to from him and every time it is 
. He has a YouTube channel where he puts full versions of aozora books he read for free and he has so much stuff!
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