At 22 hrs for November Listening Challenge. The vast majority from anime and games, but a portion from 2 light novels. So yeah, I’ll definitely make my 30 hrs goal this month, and then bump it to 40 when I do!
I’m up to 71.1% words known for SAO 2 deck (but 53.9% for the corresponding LN) - and plenty of reviews to catch up with! I started getting further into the deck, and hitting content for the final arc of the season (Yuuki arc), which has some interesting medical vocab. My total word count in jpdb is still only 7,352/10,052. Otherwise I finished Phantom Bullet arc, and besides the last episode, my comprehension was/felt great. I continued speaking along to a lot of it. Had Yona book club earlier, and I definitely feel like the bit of shadowing & speaking along I’ve done is already having some small payoff, in terms of reading aloud being easier.
I started ソードアート・オンライン5 ファントム・バレット | L34 with the audibook (no stopping for lookups at all), and am on the last book of 毎月庭つき大家つき | L25 . While the audiobook’s speaking pace is a little challenging to keep up with, I feel like my comprehension is pretty decent - depending on the section though. Even from the beginning there’s lots that the anime doesn’t include (characters’ inner monologue and description, but also it thankfully shortened the intro conversation). So naturally it’s harder, and the missing vocab + speaking pace is challenging at times. That said, I noticed that while SAO 5 takes more patience, reading 毎月 or other manga actually feels more frustrating, b/c of the interruptions to look up words. Unlike a LN with audio, where I can mostly get the meaning (and of course know the plot), even just one or two missing words in a manga scene can totally flip your understanding.
Anyway while I know it’s barely been any time, the impression I’m getting right now is that both the speaking along/shadowing, and the SRS are proving useful. So I made a deck for 頻繁に忘れちゃった言葉 (頻繁 is one of those words lol). I have it set to 10 words per day rn (only 7 in the deck so far). I put the proper nouns one up to 6 new words per day. I think/hope that should be manageable, but if not I’ll drop it down again. I just feel like 2 is a little too boring
