📻 Mid-Year Audiothon 🌼 [FINISHED]

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Ahoy! The year is coming to its halfway point, and what better way to celebrate than to see how much progress we’ve made with a nice little challenge?

Enters, the Mid-Year Audiothon.

All through the past… however long it’s been going on, there have been monthly Listening Challenges hosted here on Natively. If you have been participating in them, here is a chance to see if they have paid off, and if you haven’t, a chance to see if maybe you should sign up :grin:

:radio: What’s an Audiothon?

It’s a marathon, except instead of running we listen to stuff in our target language(s). The idea is to consume as much audio as you can in 24 hours, tracking it as you go. You can track the minutes, episodes, audiobook pages (do audiobooks have pages??)… Anything that makes sense to you.

:radio: Date

Everyone is busy with real life, so to be flexible, the event will take place over the course of 4 days: from Friday 27th to Monday 30th of June. Choose the 24-hour window that works best for you, and limit your tracking to that time-period.

:radio: Metrics & Content

Anything goes as this is only for fun, but in case you’re looking for ideas, I have compiled a list of things that would be fun to listen to, and ways to track them:

  • audiobooks
  • radio shows
  • podcasts
  • series
  • animes
  • movies
  • reality programmes
  • songs, if you’re the kind of person who listens to the lyrics

Tracking:

  • clock minutes (as in, runtime)
  • dialogue minutes (leaving out any silent times)
  • pages
  • episodes

You can also go for difficulty instead of quantity, and set yourself a Natively level goal. Here they are for reference:

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:radio: Participants

No requirements, feel free to join!
Before the event: Let us know when you’ll be doing your Audiothon, what you’ll be listening to, your goals, your past experiences with listening if you’re so inclined…
During the event: Update us on how you’re doing! It’s so much fun listening along to everyone else, and seeing what content everyone is listening to! And it’s also good to see the setbacks - everything doesn’t always go to plan. If you cat decided it was Play Time™ and is keeping you from listening… Then we want a picture of your cat.
After the event: Time to post your results! Not only the metrics but it would be fun to see how the experience was for everyone.

Interest poll
  • :arrow_forward: I will be participating
  • :pause_button: I will try to join but not sure yet
  • :stop_button: Not this time
0 voters

PS: there will most likely be a Summer Solstice Readathon happening over on WaniKani the week prior if you’re looking for a Japanese reading alternative. Join both! Dedicate all of your weekends to language learning!

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Participants

Add yourself to the list, and try to keep it alphabetical.
The date can be any 24-hour window between Friday 27th to Monday 30th of June.
Feel free to include several languages!

Username Language Date Goals
CatDQ Japanese 28/06 Goal post
eefara Japanese 29/6 goal post
hotdogsuplex Japanese 28th goals
monace korean 29/6 5h30mins, goal post
Neon_Kitsune Japanese/German? 27th Goals
nopenopenope French 28&29 12h each day, Goal post
shitsurei Japanese tbd Goals post

Results

Username Total (other metrics)
CatDQ 6h 32m
ditto20 1h50
eefara 6h 02m
hotdogsuplex 3h 58m 11 episodes
monace 5h39 6h15 actual listening time
mic 4h 20m
nopenopenope #1 13h 8h 30m logged
nopenopenope #2 9h 5h 45m logged
Shitsurei 3h 45m 5h41 runtime
8 participants 54h06 4 languages
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here we go:

My goal is to listen to 5h30, because that’s the amount of time I read during the Spring Readathon. I’ll track the total runtime of the episodes, minus the end credits.

Content I will be watching:

I haven’t really been into podcasts lately, so I will most likely only be listening to TV shows. Possible candidates:

Total: 60’

If I could finish 여자에게 설레는 편 (2 eps left, totaling maybe 30 min) and 이번 생도 잘 부탁해 (2.5 eps left, so 2h30) that would just be the cherry on top :cherries:
Then again I am being delusional and thinking that maybe I’ll have finished them already when the Audiothon comes. In that case, I’d like to focus on 다시 만난 세계, just because being able to watch something without subtitles is thrilling :grin:

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Goal

Finish 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30??

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Excited to participate, @monace! I’m thinking I’ll be participating that Sunday, but it might end up being Saturday with how that weekend shuffles out. I’ll need to think on if I want to listen to anything in particular as well…

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Exciting!! Thank you for joining!

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I’m thinking I’ll maybe try to do some Spanish and Japanese listening or (more likely) watching. If I feel really motivated I guess I could try doing one “audiothon” each for both languages, one on Saturday and one on Sunday? Either way, regardless of exactly how I end up planning my time, I think I’ll probably just watch youtube videos for Spanish and some anime for Japanese. There’s a while left so I imagine I’ll have a clearer idea of exactly what I want to do closer to the date.

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Decided that since I haven’t joined in the listening challenges recently I’ll join in on this and see what I manage to get done in 24hrs. I have the day off work on 28th so since it’s not currently booked for anything and I have no language exchanges or such, I think I’ll just chill out and focus on listening that day.

Planned content:

  • Audio books (most likely the ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 series, Read Real Japanese Fiction audio book or re-listening to some of the lower level graded reader short stories I have)
  • Comprehensible Japanese videos from the playlists I’m working through on YouTube
  • Music from my Japanese playlist (mostly Gackt, Stereopony, Espirit D’Air and Vivid Bad Squad)
  • If I start struggling, I might also try some Podcasts from Japanese with Shun or Nihongo Con Tepei

Goal, listen to as much as I can over a 24 hour period (might try to pull a full up for 24hrs session if I can, midnight to midnight, but we’ll see :joy:)

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I’m still uncertain if I can participate, but I’m going to be optimistic. (I’m officially in!)

I’ll be doing FRENCH aiming for 12hours on both the 28th and 29th.

I usually spend a couple of hours reading spanish in the morning before family gets up then watching spanish at night after they go to bed, but I’ll forgo that to get as much french listening as possible.

Thankfully, familly is francophile so we usually watch 3 hours of french TV at night, so that is a gimme even if we keep the subtitles on for the non francophone. Currently we’re watching Tandem, and there should be enough episodes left to make it until then; it’s silly but fun and almost exactly at my level. I may save the last few episodes of HPI 'cause it’s great if harder, but I’ve also started watching movies with some mixed success and would love to watch more even though I’ll have to work hard until then to be able to do that well enough. French movies from the 80’s and early 90’s are kinda amazing, and a Beatrice Dalle/Jean Reno marathon would make me too happy for words.

Update: It’ll be a 1980’s movie marathon on the 28th and a 1990’s marathon on the 29th.

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I love that we will be listening to so many different languages! :partying_face:

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I’ll try to join. I’ll aim for the 28th, if something comes up I’ll drop to the 29th.

My date: June 28th

My language: Japanese

My resources and goals
Podcast at the gym
The Bite Size Japanese Podcast, 60+ minutes

Half finished series that have been in my watch pile for months
Noragami, episodes 9-12
Flying Witch, episodes 5-12
Non Non Biyori, episodes 10-12
Rillakuma’s Theme Park Adventure, episodes 5-8

That’s a total of 19 episodes, or about 6 hours. A lofty goal for me, but I’m going to set it anyway.

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I’ll give it a try on the 29th or 30th in Spanish.

The last time I set a goal to listen as much as I could I reached 7 hours and 18 minutes, so we’ll go with a goal this time of 7 hours, assuming that I’ll also want to get a little reading in.

I like doing this sort of challenge every once in a while. It’s easier to concentrate when you’ve cleared everything off your plate for the day except listening, and your brain is sore in a fun way at the end of the day (though I wonder if I’ve exposed myself to enough Spanish at this point that it won’t be as dramatic this time).

My listening diet right now consists of certain native youtubers that I’ve gotten used to and learner podcasts like No hay tos, but maybe I’ll use this extra time to try and get hooked on a series (it’s been a bit since I’ve checked in on Avatar).

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We are a few days away from the Audiothon!
Friday is the first day, though so far we only have participants on Saturday and Sunday - that means no one will be listening alone, that’s good :grin:

My goals have not changed but I’ll update the episodes I have left on the shows I’ll be watching.

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I think I’m gonna try and clean up as many partially finished tv shows as I can.

Shows I’m at least halfway through:
ふしぎ遊戯 S1 | L23 48/52
ツルネ ―風舞高校弓道部― S1 | L26 8/13
忍者と殺し屋のふたりぐらし S1 | L25 10/12
#謎解きはディナーのあとで S1 | L31 10/12
波うららかに、めおと日和 S1 | L24 6/10

Stretch goals:
Make progress in からかい上手の高木さん S3 | L18 5/12
Get back into my 逆転裁判 let’s play and/or start a new let’s play
Finish audiobook (if I’m not through it).

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I’m planning on participating, probably on Saturday, but I haven’t decided on my goals yet. Gonna edit this post this week some time once I decide :blush:

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Same here, haha. I don’t have any firm goals, but if I end up going along with the fuzzy plans in my head, I’ll likely be swapping between an audiobook and Youtube…

Speaking of which, should I even count doing listening + reading as part of this? It’s not pure listening, so maybe I shouldn’t… :thinking: I figure subtitles are fine for shows, granted…

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I figure people are counting reading + audiobooks for their page count, so why not count it for your listening time?
I’d say go for it, the goal is to listen more, so if reading along to the audiobook makes you listen to the audiobook, then go on!

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I’m behind in my Japanese listening goal for this month, so I’ll join! I’ll be the lone listener on Friday since I’m off work. I’m slowly chipping away at Comprehensible Japanese Beginner videos, so I think I’ll try to watch 2 hours of those. If I’m feeling up to it, I might add in some German dubbed anime.

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Depending on what time-zone you are in you might not be alone for the whole 24h :blush: I have work on Friday but I will definitely be reading the updates!

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I might do that, then! I figure it nothing else, if I don’t have the text I’m not going to be understanding enough of the audiobooks to really feel like I can count anyway.

So maybe mostly audiobooks on the 28th and intersperse with some Youtube/TV in between. :thinking: Originally I was considering seeing if I could use the day to power through 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30??, since I have a little under 8 hours left at present (and I’m planning to whittle away at least one more hour tomorrow), but the book hasn’t really been grabbing me so far, so I’m tempted to instead switch gears and see if I can read+listen to the entirety of 推し、燃ゆ | L35 instead, start to finish. That one’s 3 hours and 13 minutes, and I’m anticipating needing ~5 hours to finish (taking into account the time for me pausing to look words up and go back over sentences I couldn’t process the first time).

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oh maybe I’ll also try and do a double day… I’m 4 episodes to the end of fushigi yuugi and I think if start any of those I’m going to finish the series in one go, so I’m trying to save them for the audiothon… but since I had been pushing to hard to finally be done with the series it’s been a while since I watched anything else and I don’t want to switch gears away from it.

anyway, tl;dr, I think tomorrow will be my TV day and I might try and do most of reading with an audiobook (I’m 5% in) in one go on Saturday (depending on what chores look like). Maybe on Sunday I can even do a bit of youtube… :thinking:

I swear this is not me trying to do the minimal amount of reading this weekend and getting to listen instead :sweat_smile:

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