wait, two days? a mega marathon? hmmmm, … that sounds interesting … and, also, totally not (just) a way for me to avoid all of my weekend reading of Don Quijote so I can watch french movies, … though the french pronunciation sounds more like “donkey shot” which is the only way I’ll ever want to say it ever again.
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It is Friday morning here in Europe, and the Audiothon has started!
I look forward to reading all the updates 
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Started off 8:30am ish with 2 podcasts from Learn Japanese from Comprehensible input with K -32m
Then moved on to Nihongo con Teppei for Beginners - episode 1 -70, 4 minutes per episode - 4h 40m
Had a break while picking up the car and meeting up with family while waiting for my earbuds to recharge then back at it later this afternoon with more Nihongo con Teppei, episodes 71 - 91, 4 minutes per episode - 1h 20m
Got peeved with Nihongo con Teppei as it kept buffering and stoping and starting (app states it’s no longer streamed from a secure connection which is causing the issue). Think I’m done though as my brain is melted. I’ll get a little more in with my audio flash cards and some more passive listening if I put music on but my active listening is done for today.
Total 6h 32m better than it could have been. 
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2 episodes of Fushigi Yugi down. I have half an hour before lunch, which is just barely not enough time to watch the last two… so I might watch an episode of Tsurune since that’s what I’ll watch once FY is over.
| Title | type | episodes | runtime (m) | counted time (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fushigi Yugi | TV | 2 | 43 | 30 |
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Oh wow, you’ve got crazy endurance. I love Teppei, but I don’t think I could listen to him for almost 5 straight hours. @.@
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I only know of this podcast through study logs, but wow! You either really like it or you really really like it, 6 hours in a day is a lot!
Well done, and thank you for starting us off
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For me this audiothon is at the worst possible time 
. Seasonals are currently running out of episodes, and the new season has not yet started.
One or two weeks later I could test watch episode #1 of about 40 new series 
. But now I can watch nothing but one or the other movie. On the other hand, watching these in a row would also feel like wasting them 
.
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It was more a case of I was walking around while waiting on a call about my car then eating before walking back to go collect it so it was listen to that or the traffic
Some of it was decent but I do feel they are a bit short for my liking and also he seems to repeat the same podcasts every 10-15 episodes (maybe it’s just talking about similar things that tie into those topics but it seemed like the same words and sentences used for them )
Tbf, I prefer Japanese with Shun but I was saving that for later 
it has longer episodes and more varied topics. But Nihongo con Teppei beginner one is pretty approachable with the shorter episodes and repeating topics. He talks slow enough and try’s to explain certain words with easier language.
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Update #2
I did it! I finally finished Fushigi Yugi!
The last 4 episodes were, as expected, quite good, and worth watching as a set. It still didn’t overcome the very saggy middle of the series for me though. Could have been a tight 2-3 cour show, imo, but ah well. I’ll probably write up a real review on the show page for anyone who cares.
Snuck in an episode of Tsurune as well, but I think I’m actually going to finish up 波うららかに、めおと日和 first.
| Title | type | episodes | runtime (m) | dialogue time (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fushigi Yugi | TV | 4 | 92 | 60 |
| Tsurune | TV | 1 | 23 | 15 |
| Total | - | 5 | 115 | 75 |
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Things…haven’t gone to plan today. I watched 15 minutes of Comprehensible Japanese this morning. I was off work today, but I got a call earlier from work asking if I wanted to come in for a few hours. I was out yesterday and spent more money than I meant to, so I went to work.
I’m off now, sitting outside of the boba place across the street from my work. I’m going to watch another video while I drink my boba.
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Update #3!
Finished Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori (I keep on forgetting we have a mix of languages here so I should remember to romanize ). It’s just about dinner here so I’m gonna take a TV break for a while. I don’t think I’m going to be able to finish all of my in progress series, but I will try to finish up at least one more before calling it a day.
| Title | type | episodes | runtime (m) | dialogue time (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fushigi Yugi | TV | 4 | 92 | 60 |
| Tsurune | TV | 1 | 23 | 15 |
| Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori | TV | 4 | 180 | 120 |
| Total | - | 9 | 295 | 195 |
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Man, I kinda envy you having so many in-progress series, insofar as this is a great event to finish them all up. 
I listened to a little more 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30?? today to try to get myself into reasonable striking distance of finishing it tomorrow. (I was considering 推し、燃ゆ | L35 but I keep flip-flopping. 
) I’ve got about 6 hours left in the book, but with me having to pause and stop and think and look up things, it’s probably closer to 7… Hopefully, if I don’t finish it tomorrow, I can do so Sunday. 
All this listening is gonna be great for my June goals, haha.
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Summer season starts next week too, so I was planning to try and knock my seasonals out at least this weekend. But it’s nice to have Fushigi Yugi finally done.
So, knocking out all these series just in time to start way too many new ones 
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I just now got to the one hour mark. It’s getting late and I’m not sure if I’ll continue today. I meant to watch or listen more this evening, but I got distracted once I got home. I didn’t even get any German listening in today either. I know that this challenge is all for fun, but I still feel disappointed!
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Final update!
Finished up the last 2 episodes of Nazotoki wa Dinner no ato de. Now I have just one seasonal left to finish.
| Title | type | episodes | runtime (m) | dialogue time (m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fushigi Yugi | TV | 4 | 92 | 60 |
| Tsurune | TV | 1 | 23 | 15 |
| Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori | TV | 4 | 180 | 120 |
| Nazotoki wa Dinner no ato de | TV | 2 | 46 | 30 |
| Total | - | 11 | 341 | 225 |
End of day totals: 5:41 runtime minutes, 3:45 dialogue minutes (what I actually log).
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My 24 hours starts in one minute! I meant to get up earlier today, but sleepy eefara’s bed was so comfortable…
First up: 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30?? ! Let’s see how much I can get through before I need a break!
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I’m thinking I’ll do exactly what I considered earlier and watch some Spanish today and some Japanese tomorrow. That said, I’m not nearly as good at Spanish as I am at Japanese and listening to a lot of Spanish still kind of exhausting, so I’ll probably just aim for 2-3 hours of Spanish stuff (which still is much more than I usually would do).
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my 1980’s french movie marathon is off to a less than auspicious start as l’ete meurtier turned out to be just a little too hard or I’m still a not quite fully awake; I’ll try again later.
I’ve switched to Chantal Akerman’s mall based musical Golden Eighties starring Lio and it’s going better, and it is … very eighties …
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First check-in for me; I’ve been listening to 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30?? for just under 3.5 hours now, and I have 3 hours left in the book. I’m gonna take a break for lunch, but I’m feeling confident I can probably finish the whole book today. My brain’s still doing pretty good, it’s just my ears that hurt a little bit due to having earbuds in for so long.
| Progress | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| 妖奇庵夜話 その探偵、人にあらず | L30?? | 41% → 73% | 3h 22m 32s |
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Back from lunch. Got my watch battery replaced (the guy scratched the back of my watch twice 
) and I’m ready to finish this book. 
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