February 2026 Listening Challenge

Hey all,

Continuing on our challenge to ourselves to boost our listening skills, the January 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
eefara 日本語 30/36/42 13
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eefara’s home post

:cold_face: 2月 :heart_with_arrow:
01 02 03 :100: 04 :100: :fox: 05 :100: 06 :100: 07
08 :100: 09 10 11 :dizzy: 12 :100: 13 :100: 14
15 16 :sweat_droplets: :one: 17 :100: :one: :fox: 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 :one: 26 27 28

Japanese

  • :heavy_check_mark: I listened this day, but didn’t hit the hour+ mark.
  • :100: : I listened to an hour to an hour and a half!
  • :sweat_droplets: : I listened to an hour and a half to two hours.
  • :dizzy: : I listened to 2+ hours today.

Mandarin

  • :one: : I watched one video
  • :two: : I watched two videos
  • (And so on and so forth)
  • :fox: : I listened to Little Fox Chinese this day

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

Listening Log
Japanese
Total time: 14h 18m 35s

Audiobooks

02/02:
BUTTER: 35m

02/03:
BUTTER: 1h

02/04:
BUTTER: 18m
本好き 5: 1h 7m

02/05:
本好き 5: 55m

02/06:
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 1h

02/08:
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 1h 5m

02/11:
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 1h 24m

02/12:
BUTTER: 54m

02/13:
BUTTER: 36m
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 25m 45s

02/14:
BUTTER: 7m 45s

02/16:
BUTTER: 1h

02/17:
BUTTER: 29m 40s
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 46m 25s

02/18:
ヴァンパイア探偵 --禁断の運命の血–: 33m

02/20:
NO.6: 30m

Drama CDs
Podcasts

02/05:
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト, ep. 18: 11m

02/11:
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト, ep. 19-20: 38m 30s

02/12:
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト, ep. 22: 12m 30s

02/16:
YUYUの日本語ポッドキャスト, ep. 24, 26: 30m

TV/Anime/Movies
Youtube
Numbers for calcs

35m + 1h + 1h 25m + 66m + 1h + 1h 5m + 38m 30s + 1h 24m + 66m 30s + 61m 45s + 7m 45s + 1h 30m + 29m 40s + 46m 25s + 33m + 30m


Mandarin
Total time: 01h 30m 40s

Audiobooks

02/16:
In Search of Hua Ma: 16m 40s

02/16:
In Search of Hua Ma: 35m

02/25:
My Teacher is a Martian: 39m

Numbers for calcs

16m 40s + 35m + 39m

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Man, I’ve been really dropping the ball in February. @.@ Gonna see if I can start trying to put in a little more time to catch up… I’m basically at half the number of hours I need to be at.

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I see a lot of :100: in that chart. :sweat_droplets: when? :eyes:

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Hopefully today. :see_no_evil_monkey: I don’t think I’ll have time for a :dizzy: today, unfortunately, but maybe tomorrow. :crossed_fingers:

@monace: :dizzy: achieved! :partying_face:

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I’ve been feeling pretty burnt-out on listening recently, so I’ve decided to take a break from my daily hour for the rest of the week and weekend and see how I feel on Monday. February’s been absolutely terrible for me in terms of consistency so far anyway, so I think I’m going to embrace the “definitely-won’t-hit-30-hours-this-month”.

Hopefully this break (+ potentially taking next week off as well) gets me recharged for March, but I’m not going to pressure myself too much about it.

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