February 2025 Listening Challenge

Hey all,

Continuing on our challenge to ourselves to boost our listening skills, the February 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 :muscle:

All languages welcome!

This post will be a wiki so you can add and update your own hours.

Name Language Goal Hours Achieved
暁のルナ 日本語 40/60 1.4
eefara 日本語 30 13.5
araigoshi 日本語 25
@PrinceSugarBun 日本語 5
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I’ve officially taken over from @cat - thanks so much for running the previous threads :slight_smile:

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Starting w/ 40 hr goal, but hoping for 60. January’s challenge. Anything that’s spoken audio (with or without accompanying text) counts.

オーディオブック
Book ch text Time
ADV/VN/ゲーム 動画
ゲーム エピソード 時間
声優ラジオ
Series eps Time
インタビュー
Interview Time
ドラマCD
Series ep/ch Time
マリア様がみてる ドラマ CD 1 2-3 25
マリア様がみてる CD 2 1 20
アニメ
シャドーイング
シーリズ eps Time
Random YouTube vids
シリーズ subs time
ニューズなど
ニュースチャンネル 字幕 時間

Post with News & other channels to listen to: 🦃 November Listening Challenge 👂 - #11 by 暁のルナ

Note to self: watch this channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4v8X-lfX5o

Total so far: 105 min (1.75 hrs)

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Month two of my year-long goal has arrived! January went abnormally well by my standards, so I’m hoping to keep the good work going strong in February. :muscle:

eefara’s home post

Feb
01 :100: 02 :100:
03 :100: 04 :100: 05 :100: 06 :100: 07 :100: 08 :100: 09 :100:
10 :100: 11 :100: 12 :100: 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28
  • :heavy_check_mark: I listened this day, but didn’t hit the hour+ mark.
  • :100: : I listened to an hour or more this day!

(Calendar stolen from the Listen Every Day Challenge on WK.)

Listening Log
Total time: 13h 37m 14s

Audiobooks

02/11:
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2」: 19m 55s

02/12:
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2」: 57m

Drama CDs
Podcasts

02/01:
4989 American Life, ep 212: 23m 14s

02/03:
4989 American Life, ep 213-215: 82m 47s

02/04:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 66-68: 61m 37s

02/05:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 68-71: 81m 47s

02/06:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 72-74: 61m 8s

02/08:
YUYUの日本語Podcast, ep 4-6: 53m 41s

2/10:
IGN JAPANしゃべりすぎGAMER, ep 428: 30m

2/11:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 75-76: 40m 59s

TV/Anime/Movies

02/01:
中学聖日記, ep 5: 57m
D.gray-man, ep 31-33: 75m

02/02:
中学聖日記, ep 6: 57m

02/03:
中学聖日記, ep 7: 57m

02/07:
中学聖日記, ep 8: 57m

02/08:
中学聖日記, ep 9: 57m

02/09:
中学聖日記, ep 10-11: 93m

02/10:
アンナチュラル, ep 1: 3m
のだめ カンタービレ (live action), ep 1: 5m
放課後カルテ, ep 1: 43m

Youtube

02/12:
【恋愛ホラー】男子たちの言葉を解読して脱出せよ!【文字化化】: 19m 11s

Numbers for calcs

57m + 75m + 57m + 23m 14s + 57m + 82m 47s + 61m 37s + 81m 47s + 61m 8s + 57m + 93m + 57m + 53m 41s + 81m + 40m 59s + 19m 55s + 57m + 19m 11s

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I’ll be reducing my target this month slightly to 25 hours, both because it actually was a little challenging to balance all my Japanese learning activities and I’m trending ahead of where I need to be for my yearly goal anyway.

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February’s off to a great start! My primary TV focuses have been and remain 中学聖日記 S1 | L26 and D.Gray-man S1 | L22??; the former I’m suuuuper enjoying, and really glad my roommate recommended to me, the latter has been nothing but filler with more filler on the horizon, which is great since I’m watching without subs. It’s feeling like a comfy level for me: maybe 80%-85% is understandable without them.

I’d like to read at least one audiobook this month, most likely along with the text. I think I’m going to count it in my stats; if watching TV with subs counts, then this feels like the same thing. Anything I read along to while listening is likely going to be above my pure listening level anyway, otherwise I’d ditch the text. Might finally be time to pick up 本好き2… :eyes:

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This month one of my goals is to figure out how to work on my listening goal while at work; my work activities are only sometimes mindless enough to let me listen to something in the background, but not usually. :thinking: Podcasts will, in some way, shape, or form, probably be the way to go.

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Finished 中学聖日記 yesterday! I really enjoyed the show; glad my roommate recommended it. This leaves a bit of a hole in my schedule; I tried a little bit of a couple of shows this morning, but nothing’s really calling to me for various reasons.

  • アンナチュラル - far too difficult for me right now even with subtitles, unfortunately. My medical game is too weak.
  • のだめ カンタービレ (live action) - seemed promising, but the live action appears to be trying to emulate gags from the manga (e.g. silly faces and such) faithfully, which is a bit too cringe for me early in the morning.
  • 放課後カルテ - I did get through all of episode one sans subs, but it just wasn’t speaking to me. I’ve been pretty tired over the last day or two, which might be a contributing factor.

I’m kinda thinking maybe it’s time to listen to an audiobook for my next listening “project”; thing is is that I want to listen and read at the same time, but I can’t decide whether that’s “cheating” or not. I suppose it’s the same thing with subtitles, and I’ve been counting those… :thinking:

(edit: I need someone else to comment before I can again :<)

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