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 
All languages welcome!
This post will be a wiki so you can add and update your own hours.
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.
| Book | ch | text | Time |
|---|
| ゲーム | エピソード | 時間 |
|---|---|---|
| flowers | Part 1 (50-94), part 2 (0-24) | 68 |
| Series | eps | Time |
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| Series | ep/ch | Time |
|---|---|---|
| マリア様がみてる ドラマ CD 3 |
| Series | eps | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 美少女戦士セーラームーン R | L24 | 27-31, 36-38, 40-42 | 220 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーン S | L24 | 1-38 | 760 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーン SuperS | L24 | 1-7, 23-25, 27-39 | 460 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーン Sailor Stars | L24 | 1-22 | 440 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season I: Dark Kingdom | L28 | 4-14 | 220 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season II: Black Moon | L28 | 1-5 | 60 |
| 美少女戦士セーラームーンクリスタル Season III: Death Busters | L28 | 1-4 | 80 |
| きみの色 | L21 | main | 101 |
| 劇場版 美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos 後編 | L28 | 2 | 70 |
| 少女革命ウテナ S1 | L31 | 5-39 | 700 |
| シリーズ | ep | time |
|---|---|---|
| Yotsuba-to! - いろいろなマンが | 1-6 | 149 |
| 鋼の錬金術師 ー いろいろな日本語 | 1 | 25 |
Total so far: 3293 (54.8 hrs)
Could you turn the home post into a wiki?
Done - sry about that!!
eefara’s home post
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I listened this day, but didn’t hit the hour+ mark. : I listened to an hour or more this day!(Calendar stolen from the Listen Every Day Challenge on WK.)
Listening Log
Total time: 42h 34m 46s
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
03/16:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 8m 32s
03/17:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 1m 17s
03/18:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 56m 08s
03/19:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 1m 49s
03/20:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 2m 37s
03/21:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 8m 51s
03/24:
穏やか貴族の休暇のすすめ。1: 1h 7s
03/09:
D.Gray-man学園 (Kanda cover): 17m 39s
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
03/15:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 100-103: 81m 20s
03/18:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 104-105: 40m 45s
03/23:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 106-108: 61m 14s
03/25:
YUYUの日本語, ep 7: 17m 5s
4989 American Life, ep 219: 34m 39s
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 109: 20m 21s
03/26:
Learn Japanese with Noriko, season 3-104: 21m 41s
Nihongo con Teppei, ep 110-113: 82m 34s
03/27:
Learn Japanese with Noriko, ep 190-192: 22m 17s
テレビゲームの中林 - ALFAポッドキャスト, ep 239: 30m
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
03/22:
はじめてのおつかい S1: 15m
03/24:
ゴーストハント, ep 15-16: 40m
03/28:
ゴーストハント, ep 17-22: 2h
03/29:
ゴーストハント, ep 23-25: 1h
消えた初恋, ep 1-3: 69m
03/30:
消えた初恋, ep 4-6: 69m
03/31:
となりのトトロ: 86m
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
03/22:
20年前に発売された大人気ゲーム『 たまごっちのプチプチおみせっち 』: 3m 36s
【地獄銭湯】#1 サウナを愛する声優 花江夏樹の血圧が恐怖で限界突破【ホラー】: 28m 06s
【地獄銭湯】#2 絶叫により湯上り以上に体が熱い男【ホラー】: 24m 02s
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 + 80m 20s + 1h 8m 32s + 1h 1m 17s + 40m 45s + 56m 08s + 1h 1m 49s + 1h 2m 37s + 1h 8m 51s + 1h 10m 44s + 61m 14s + 1h 7s + 40m + 1h 12m 21s + 105m 13s + 52m 17s + 20m 21s + 2h + 2h 9m + 69m + 86m
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.
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
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.
Thank you! I’m hoping I can stick with it; I enjoy listening and understanding, but the practice part not so much. 
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 
Dropped my goal down to 20 hrs for the month, bc I’m just too focused on reading.
Almost all of my listening this month has been watching Sailor Moon + those Yotsuba vids. Now that I’ve found a way to watch Sailor Moon on my phone, instead of my computer, I’ll probably get some more eps in. I’ve been doing the jpdb deck for Sailor Moon S too. Now that I’m doing it for a show, I’m asking myself “would I get this reading and listening?” to determine the grade.
So even though that’s not listening per se, doing it for the sake of listening should improve my listening 
I did try a 1930s movie, but the audio quality was bad, so it wasn’t helpful. Otoh 螢の光 | L30?? has good audio quality, but hardcoded subs… No idea where to find it without
I’m still doing pretty good on my listening; almost forgot to do the last 20 minutes of my hour one day, but saved it just in time. I’m feeling pretty optimistic about my 36/42 hour stretch goals this month.
I started watching 숨이 벅차 S1 | L17??, only 1 episode in, I’ll get to the other 2 before the end of the month. The total runtime is 40 minutes, and the level (in the first episode at least) is… higher than my comfort level, but I still understood what was happening.
Didi’s Korean Culture Podcast is getting easier, I’m used to her way of talking now, so it’s looking more and more like April will have a focus on listening for me.
I’ve never tracked my listening, but I’ve basically been doing a watch party of a Korean dating show where each episode has a runtime of 1.5-2.5 hours, one episode per day, for the past 2 months LOL so I’m in this with you all, but I can’t be bothered to track (I track books bc I have a concrete goal of 100 total books)
Passed my initial goal of 30 hours listened yesterday, so now I’m going to work on my bonus goals of 36 and 42 hours. 36 is guaranteed if I stick to my usual 1 hour per day, but I’ll need to put a little more effort in if I want to hit 42. I missed it in February, so I’d like to hit it this month if possible.
Yayy. It looks like I’m actually gonna hit 30 hrs - to my surprise!
More of that has been due to anime than I think is ideal - particularly since I’m not always listening as attentively as I could be (doing vocab reviews while watching)… but otoh that’s not necessarily different than IRL, or listening to a podcast/radio show while doing chores or something… still, I know that when I put on ソードアート・オンライン6 ファントム・バレット | L33 I was like “wow that’s a lot of words at once!”, since the speech rate is on the faster side of audiobooks - and audiobooks don’t have all the pauses anime have. Also Sailor Moon is just way simpler language overall, so maybe that’s more of the reason.
Still, listening is listening - but I think next month/challenge I will also aim to listen to more higher level content again, like I have in previous months
Did you decide what you want to do with the threads going forward @暁のルナ, since we’re getting closer to the end of the month?
Mm for now I’ll make one for next month, and see what happens I guess. If it’s also low participation, then I’ll wait till June before trying again.
Made the post for April, and even remembered to make it a Wiki this time
Made my 40 hours!! (thank you Sailor Moon obsession )
Started listening to the final episode of ガルクラジオ earlier, but decided I wasn’t really in the mood… but I will probly catch up with the ones I missed in April. Speaking of April, considering I made my 40 hrs, when I wasn’t expecting to at all this month, I’m gonna switch my goal for next month to be 40/60 instead of 20/40
