I mentioned before that I’ve been slacking hard this month, and it’s visible in my progress I’ve gotten 14.5 hours of listening this month which is…not great for me. Because I have a long plane ride later there’s a chance I’ll bump some of that up with an audiobook (reading for 10 hours straight seems unlikely) but I don’t expect to get 15 hours of listening in during the next 3 days…
Because I’ll be traveling I’m going to go ahead and open next month’s challenge. It is here: 🍁 October Listening Challenge 👂
Anyone know if コーヒーが冷めないうちに | L27 would be good for audio-only beginner listeners? The reviews make it seem like it would be, but wanted to get more opinions.
Personally, I think so. It’s all about human relationships, dreams, etc. Everything set in reality and with everday language. (It’s defnitely in the top 3 easiest audiobooks I have listened to, so far.)
But maybe have a listen to the sample before you commit to buying?
Just finished my only goal this month: listening to all of ハリー・ポッターと秘密の部屋 | L31 ! I finished the month with just over 19 hours listened to; while most was from that book, some hours did also come from a few TV shows. Pretty good for not really having much of a focus on listening. Not sure if I’ll do October, and what I’ll do if I do…
i realized that ~5 hours wasn’t tooooo much listening to get through over a few otherwise empty days, so i really prioritized it. i listened to two 비빔팦 episodes (50m each), an episode of 웰컴투 삼달리, and a lot of random stuff i came across. i didn’t listen to much content in full because i kept losing focus or wasn’t interested. next month i’m going to focus on trying to listen for longer periods of time even if it’s not super fun. for now, i’m happy i managed to hit that 30 hour mark!
past few days : 285 mins / 4.75 hours total : 30 out of 30 hours
to be exact, it was 30.08 hours, but 30 out of 30 looks nicer lmao
The hotel I’m staying in has the nicest bath, so I took a nice long soak and listened to more of my book of comedic essays (I admit most of it isn’t that funny to me, but it’s early 2000s comedy which I view as basically a dead era for the genre).
I have about an hour left in the audiobook and I admit I’m looking forward to just crossing it off as done
I made it to 38.5 hours of listening with no subs. About 10 hours audiobooks and the rest anime. I started with fairly weak listening skills and noticed a gradual improvement over the month.
Listening with no subs was really hard at first and I struggle with speed and catching details. I am happy that I took the leap to try listening with no subs. At my level, I felt that this type of listening was good for getting reps in on vocab/phrases that I should already know, but difficult to learn new vocab.
So going forward I want to do a mix of subs and no subs. I think that will give me the best balance between strengthening listening skills but also learning new words.
This challenge was fun but I’m not going to participate in October. I want to take a break from goals and just focus on having fun with the language.
It’s September 30th and against all odds, I made it to 15 hours! (Well, I may be off a few minutes or so, but who cares?) I really pushed myself this month and my hard work paid off! I feel pretty accomplished with actually completing my goal for the month and I’m glad that I didn’t try to go for 30 hours like I did in August. I’ll keep at it next month!
I did manage to get some listening in Saturday, Sunday and Monday (though Sat & Sun was actually listening to Game Gengo’s breakdowns of Japanese grammar for N4 - 4/5 hours and N3 6 hours using game text/ voice overs). Between those and playing Shin Chan and the professor’s Everlasting Summer Vacation today (for about 12 hours), I possibly managed the last 11h 12m but I wasn’t keeping score the last few days as I’m still recovering and did blank out quite a few times while listening. Besides listening while playing Shin Chan, I’ve also been reading all the dialogue and ingame explanations as well today so at least today wasn’t wasted.
I was literally holed up in bed for 3 days then resting for Sunday still, listening was about all I could do. Today was different though, I actually managed to get to play something and focus on it.
I also haven’t read for about a week almost, couldn’t focus on reading a few days before I fell ill, then no chance of touching books while feeling how I was. It is almost 2 am here now though and I’ve a language exchange in about 7 hours so if I don’t get some rest, I think my brain will melt when I try to use it then
Well, I came pretty damn close at 27.7/30 hrs, which considering where I was a week ago, is really surprising. Hopefully in October I’ll keep up better… 顔張るよ… And all that 笑
So, back at it today with 1.5 hrs listening and 10 minutes shadowing with たゆたえども沈まず | L30??! In total I completed around 18 hours of listening out of my goal of 30 hours, but I was on vacation for one week and didn’t do any listening at all so I think that’s not bad. I’m also happy that around 1/3 of my time was spent shadowing, which was a cool new experience!
I also randomly did 30 minutes of listening to a Korean podcast today on a whim. I could follow the main ideas decently well since the conversation was centered around a single topic, but I missed some of the details. It was interesting to me though, since I’ve been learning Japanese and able to listen to it for years now so I can’t really remember what I did specifically to get to this level (well, I mean I know what I did - just listened to a ton of stuff…more or less). How did I go from not understanding words to understanding mostly all of them?? I think I will do some more Korean listening in October as an experiment to develop techniques for the “uncomfortable” low comprehension listening range in addition to further shadowing activities.
I think I’m gonna have to call it at 29:17/30h for the month. I did do 47:34 for the month including listening with subs though, so I’m not too upset about it.
I’ve gotten 14.5 hours of listening this month which is…not great for me. Because I have a long plane ride later there’s a chance I’ll bump some of that up with an audiobook (reading for 10 hours straight seems unlikely) but I don’t expect to get 15 hours of listening in during the next 3 days…
I was literally holed up in bed for 3 days then resting for Sunday still, listening was about all I could do. Today was different though, I actually managed to get to play something and focus on it.
