Hey all,
Continuing on our challenge to ourselves to boost our listening skills, the September 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.
Goal: my focus is going to be on Kansai-ben materials. I will still record standard dialect for reference, but it doesn’t count towards total hours. August Challenge
| Book | ch/track | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 卍 (まんじ) L40 | 5-11 | 156 |
| 灰と幻想のグリムガル ドラマ 1 | 1-3 | 37 |
| セトウツミ 1 | 1-2 + shadowing | 20 |
| ゲーム | 時間 |
|---|---|
| ラブ★コン | 35 |
| ムジュラの仮面 | 337 |
Majora’s mask vtuber also has stuff like this or this
| Series | eps | Time |
|---|---|---|
| ラブ★コン S1 L27 | 16-24 | 135 |
| ラブ★コン S1 L27 オーディオ | 1-24 | 360 |
| 舞妓さんちのまかないさん S1 L32 | 1-9 | 180 |
| アベノ橋魔法☆商店街 | 3 | 45 |
| 光が死んだ夏 S1 | 1 | 15 |
| チャネル・再生リスト | 時間 |
|---|---|
| わかりやすい関西弁講座 | 280 |
| Speak Japanese with Ryo | |
| 日本語の森 - 関西弁講座 | 30 |
| ジャルジャルアイランド | 71 |
| ポッドキャストと他 | 時間 |
|---|---|
| アメージング関西弁 | 215 |
| 会話レッスン | 90 |
| Type | Min | Hrs |
|---|---|---|
| 関西弁 | 2122 | 35.3 |
Been thinking about just what I should count, and just what I might want to achieve with this. I feel like my listening isn’t quite so automatic… Like if you put something with words in front of me, I will just start automatically reading it. With listening, it’s like I have to actively turn the skill on.
Which leads me to think I need to get more textless input. And also that more diverse input would be beneficial.
So rn I’m thinking of tracking but not counting anime. Having some sort of small, achievable goal that I should use podcasts and YouTube vids for, and have that be what I’m measuring. If I do that, it will largely just be logging time, bc I’m not about to list every YouTube vid or ep.
I think I will use “explain grammar in JP” videos. Maybe I should also get back to those “explain manga in JP” Yotsuba and FMA vids 
The other thing I’m realizing is that I need for “fast” (ie normal) speech practice… So maybe I’ll listen to some things twice, once on normal, once on 1.5x? Hmm
Update: I decided my focus will be on Kansai dialect. So I’ll grab as much of that as I can
You’re tempting me to take on a 博多弁 listening challenge again.
Interesting - what prompted you to take on it the first time?
As a native speaker in a dialect myself, I feel a need to show some love to dialects. The reason why I tend more towards Hakata-ben than Kansai-ben, which is THE dialect everyone thinks of when it comes about dialects of Japanese, is partly because I prefer the way it sounds but most importantly because I have something of an emotional attachment to the language.
The first time in my life where I could make use of my Japanese skills in a real social setting was when I hung out with Japanese students from 福岡大学 who came to my university for a short (≈3 weeks) language exchange program. That experience left a strong impression on me.
Unfortunately, Hakata-ben is not a major dialect and most native speakers tend to switch to 標準語 outside of private circles so it is not something you can unintentionally get much exposure to. This is why I decided to go for a Hakata-ben challenge to specifically search for Hakata-ben material. I wanted to hear what natural Hakata-ben sounds like beyond the 一覧 tables you see in a bunch of online articles listing lots of archaic expressions no one uses anymore.
Btw if anyone’s into history:
On the easier side & has subs
has other core subjects as well - middle & high school level
Goal for this month: 10h
This will be more relaxed and I’m not too worried about not making this month’s goal. 10h used to really be a challenge, but now it’s cruise speed. 
Progress
| Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 48’ | 05 28’ | 06 | 07 | 76’ |
| 08 | 09 | 10 22’ | 11 | 12 | 13 34’ | 14 90’ | 146’ |
| 15 24’ | 16 21’ | 17 17’ | 18 15’ | 19 5’ | 20 | 21 | 82’ |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | |
| 29 | 30 |  |
Also, I really like months that start on a Monday.
Yay someone else signed up - I was thinking it was gonna be only me 
Don’t you worry, I have my monthly hour goals planned out until December 2026, I am not dropping this early
That’s very impressive! As an aside, I’m glad it’s finally September tomorrow, so I can start logging my hrs here… I actually haven’t logged a bunch of my hours for the end of August yet tho
Do you log them somewhere else as you go and then record them here as well?
I tried using apps to track different things like grammar study, reading, listening… But it never sticks. That’s why I find these threads so helpful, at least I am tracking listening time.
Besides logging anime on Natively, no - never occurred to me. Well spreadsheet had occurred to me in the past, and if there were an easy way to convert google spreadsheet to markdown with tables, I might do that. But otherwise, it just gets a bit tedious at times.
I’ll be setting up a home post as well; just been waiting for the month to flip over.
Goal for this month: 35 hours
I completed 30 hours last month, so I want to get even more this month. I’d like to finish the free intermediate videos on Dreaming Spanish and then continue with native content like The Cuphead Show, My Melody & Kuromi, and so on.
Well I’m off to a good start with the Kansai listening already, in part bc holiday. I’ve created a daily checklist that looks something like this:
1 chapter of まんじ
1 わかりやすい関西弁 (shadowing)
1 ジャルジャルアイランド video
1 ラブ★コン S1 | L27 episode - finished ep 17
Not sure it will be realistic to do both a わかりやすい関西弁 and ジャルジャルアイランド in one day, but I wanted to put them separate for now, since the first is shadowing, and the second is input
Tried the ジャルジャルアイランド skits earlier. I don’t really find them funny, but they’re interesting enough, and very ideal listening practice for me - both for Kansai and general comprehension.
Have also been watching a lot of ラブ★コン - which is a fully Kansai ben anime, and that’s been great as well - particularly since it has subs. Found a movie I may try to watch - the actress was in one of the skits:
Btw y’all should add yourselves to the table in the OP. It’s lonely being the only one 
It might be because I’m on mobile, but I don’t seem to be able to edit the post 
Sry, I forgot to make it a Wiki, yet again 
It’s editable now
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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: 30h 0m 22s
09/02:
硝子の塔の殺人: 1h 38m 07s
09/08:
硝子の塔の殺人: 1h 1m 13s
09/09:
硝子の塔の殺人: 20m
09/11:
硝子の塔の殺人: 1h
09/15:
硝子の塔の殺人: 30m 17s
09/16:
硝子の塔の殺人: 40m
09/18:
硝子の塔の殺人: 50m
09/20:
硝子の塔の殺人: 2h
09/21:
京都寺町三条のホームズ: 1h 4m 7s
09/22:
京都寺町三条のホームズ: 1h 18m 38s
09/28:
硝子の塔の殺人: 1h 5m 16s
09/29:
京都寺町三条のホームズ: 1h
09/30:
京都寺町三条のホームズ: 1h
09/17:
グローリア号航海記: 33m
09/09:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 157-158: 41m 12s
09/10:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 159-160: 40m 53s
09/12:
(stand.fm) 来年の手帳どうしよう弐: 36m 06s
09/13:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 161: 20m 26s
09/16
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 162-163: 40m 53s
09/17:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 164-165: 41m 32s
09/22:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 166-167: 41m 18s
09/23:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 168-169: 40m 53s
09/24:
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 170-171: 41m 19s
09/26:
YUYUの日本語Podcast, ep. 393: 30m
09/27:
YUYUの日本語Podcast, ep. 391-392: 87m 51s
Nihongo con Teppei, ep. 172: 20m 26s
09/12:
真・女神転生デビルサマナー S2, ep 14: 21m 40s
09/13:
真・女神転生デビルサマナー S2, ep 15-16: 43m 20s
09/15:
真・女神転生デビルサマナー S2, ep 17-18: 43m 20s
09/19:
真・女神転生デビルサマナー S2, ep 19-21: 66m
09/02:
セーリング紹介映像 ～Sailing Road to Enoshima ～: 12m
09/03:
【ペルソナ５: The Phantom X】ペルソナを初めてプレイしてみる！！【先行プレイ】: 23m 24s
新たな異変が発見されました『８番出口 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition』: 50m 56s
09/10:
魔女たちの眠り: 40m
09/11:
【PACIFY】The men who wish to keep their cool while doing a let’s play of a horror game: 29m 34s
09/12:
パソコンの見覚えのないファイルを開いた…ホラーゲーム『sin.exe』: 10m
09/19:
- 失踪 - タケシ、お前の言う通りだった。この廃村はヤバすぎる。: 10m
09/23:
怪奇現象だらけの教室で30日間勉強するホラーゲーム『第八中学校』: 20m
09/24:
数字の情報だけで漫画のタイトルを当てろ！: 10m 15s
09/25:
立ち入り禁止の裏山を題材にしたホラーゲーム『ウラヤマ』: 42m 42s
絶対に参加してはいけないオンライン会議に入ってみた: 23m 46s
09/26:
嫌な客しか来ない深夜のタピオカ屋で働くホラーゲーム『タピるお茶屋』: 30m
12m + 1h 38m 7s + 23m 24s + 50m 56s + 1h 1m 13s + 61m 12s + 80m 53s + 29m 34s + 1h + 67m 46s + 63m 46s + 43m 20s + 30m 17s + 80m 53s + 54m 06s + 60m + 20m 26s + 66m + 2h + 1h 4m 7s + 1h 18m 38s + 41m 18s + 41m 19s + 60m 53s + 10m 15s + 42m 42s + 23m 46s + 60m + 1h 5m 16s + 108m 15s + 1h + 1h
Bonus Spanish listening: 31m 44s
Bonus Mandarin listening: 13m 37s
| Source | Type | Time |
|---|---|---|
| ふたりはプリキュア | Television | 25 m |
