March 2025 Listening Challenge

Hey all,

Continuing on our challenge to ourselves to boost our listening skills, the March 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 7.1
eefara 日本語 30 18.5
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Probably doing 40 hrs, but might reduce it, since I’ve been reading heavy for a while now February’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
flowers Part 1 50-
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 3
アニメ
シャドーイング
シーリズ eps Time
YouTube vids
シリーズ ep time
Yotsuba-to! - いろいろなマンが 1,3 47

Total so far: 427 min (7.1 hrs)

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Could you turn the home post into a wiki?

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Done - sry about that!!

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eefara’s home post

Mar
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 :100: 14 :100: 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
  • :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: 19h 28m 10s

Audiobooks

03/04:
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」: 27m 04s

03/05:
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」: 41m 14s

03/07:
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」: 1h 27m 49s

03/08:
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」: 1h 3m 7s

03/13:
Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition: 26m 45s

03/14:
Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text - Revised Edition: 1h 19m 19s

Drama CDs

03/09:
D.Gray-man学園 (Kanda cover): 17m 39s

Podcasts

03/01:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 92: 20m 23s

03/04:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 93: 20m 24s

03/05:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 93: 20m 24s

03/07:
YUYUの日本語, ep 350: 31m 25s

03/11:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 94-96: 61m 14s

03/12:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 97: 20m 29s

03/14:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 98-99 : 40m 56s

TV/Anime/Movies

03/01:
D.gray-man, ep 40-42: 1h

03/02:
D.gray-man, ep 43-46: 1h 20m

03/03:
D.gray-man, ep 47-49: 1h

03/04:
D.gray-man, ep 50-51: 40m

03/09:
テイルズ オブ ファンタジア THE ANIMATION, ep 1-4: 1h 58m 22s

03/10:
泣きたい私は猫をかぶる: 60m

03/13:
泣きたい私は猫をかぶる: 51m 35s

Youtube

03/04:
JapaNews24 ~日本の最新ニュースを24時間ライブ配信 Japan News 24H LIVE: 20m 46s

03/06:
【Animal Crossing: New Horizons】Day 1 “A Rainy Day Campsite”: 21m 43s
【Animal Crossing: New Horizons】Day 2 「Come to my house」: 14m 56s
宝物が埋まってると噂の庭を掘るゲームが本当に怖い『A Game About Digging A Hole』: 40m 33s

03/12:
JapaNews24 ~日本の最新ニュースを24時間ライブ配信 Japan News 24H LIVE: 42m

Numbers for calcs

1h + 20m 32s + 1h 20m + 1h + 40m 48s + 27m 04s + 40m + 20m 40s + 41m 14s + 21m 43s + 14m 56s +40m 33s + 31m 25s + 1h 27m 49s + 1h 3m 7s + 1h 58m 22s + 17m 39s + 60m + 61m 14s + 42m + 20m 29s + 51m 35s + 26m 45s + 1h 19m 19s + 40m 56s

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I wonder if it would be worth changing this to a “every three or four months” kind of thing? Just for in terms of participation. I’m hoping I can hit a goal every month this year, but I definitely feel less motivated to chat about what I’ve been doing when there’s so few other people.

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I was surprised by the fact that it’s only 2 of us so far this month… maybe every few months is the way to go? Or maybe it’s just run its course? I guess we’ll see if there’s any more participation by the end of the month. Personally I’ll start [also] tracking my listening on my learning log regardless, cuz that’s been the most beneficial part for me

Maybe more ppl will come if there’s more chat? I was actually about to post this wonderful YouTube channel, where the guy reads manga & explains it all in Japanese (there are some pure podcast tracks too, but even those usually have video of some sort)

It’s very accessible, and is actually getting me a little interested in よつばと! | L17 of all things!

Anyway good suggestion

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I’m not tracking my listening because I usually end up doing very little of it, but I’m happy to post here whenever I do, even though I’m not participating in the listening challenge!

I actually started watching a movie in Korean (벼랑 위의 포뇨 | L19), with Korean subtitles for the first time ever so I’m pretty excited. I got to a little over an hour in before I started feeling sleepy, maybe because the movie is so cosy, maybe because I was getting tired of so much listening. Regardless, I think I got maybe 70% of what was going on, mainly just the child (Sosuke?) and Ponyo. The mum I found was a bit fast but I could make out some parts, and I have no idea what Ponyo’s dad is talking about. And that’s about all of the characters so far!
The subtitles help, but they don’t match the sub at all, so if I’m really lost I can pause and read the sentence. It gives me 2 sources to get meaning from.

@eefara you are on a roll! over and hour every day is impressive.

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Thank you! I’m hoping I can stick with it; I enjoy listening and understanding, but the practice part not so much. :joy:

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I managed to listen to an entire episode of Didi의 한국문화 podcast, which i’m pretty proud of because the last time i tried listening to her it was mostly unintelligible to me. Now my comprehension isn’t great, but it’s good enough that i got through all 25 minutes and understood at least the gist of it.
This is encouraging, maybe I can try to improve my listening again - and join the april challenge :smiling_face:

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