(Forgot to post this on Tuesday)
京都寺町三条のホームズ | L31 - Finished
0.9 hours
0.9 hours
Today’s total = 1.8
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Wednesday + Thursday
I’ve been watching a play through of The Plucky Spire in Japanese. It looks absolutely gorgeous. The gameplay revolves around finding adjectives and nouns - in English but also fully localised in Japanese, including the voice over. So this could be an ideal, low effort, fun game to play?
Bite Sized Japanese podcast - 0.5 hour
NHK News - 0.8 hours
YouTube - 0.7 hours
Total = 2 hours
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Day 19:
Listened to a few youtube Videos and the chapter I’ve just read in ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 book 4.
OkkeiJapanese: A man who can’t stop thinking - 8m
Simple Japanese listening - Dog and Cat - 42m
眠り貯金箱と眠れませんべい - 23m
Total - 1h 13m
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Yesterday and before I did more around 1h for a total of 4h37m (43% of my goal).
I watched more 2 episodes of Nihongo con Teppei, one video from あかね的日本語教室, and another from みにまるコミック.
The みにまるコミック one I think I got most of the main idea, but there was a lot that I couldn’t understand. あかね的日本語教室 was a simple video about common phrases when going to a restaurant.
Sometimes I also leave an art stream in the background while working, but I don’t count time for that. Today was one of those days, but it was incredibly frustrating and demotivating how little I could understand. It really made me think that I wasn’t learning anything at all and made me want to quit 
(it also made me surprised I was able to learn English at all 
)
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Lots of Japanese study today but not much on the listening side.
I also started playing The Plucky Squire in Japanese…it’s been great for reading but post-intro there was not much voice over, so I’m not counting it.
Just watched Chaos;Head
1.1 hour
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I did another 3 hours. 
I’m only halfway to the goal I set of 30 hours, and I won’t have very much time in the upcoming week so I don’t think I’ll hit it. Pushing so hard last month made me take it way easier than I usually would in a normal month, so it seems that aiming so high like that came with a downside. Basically, balance is good. 
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Day 21:
Missed yesterday (long shift so very little time to do anything, I didn’t even get a chance to read anything). Today hasn’t been much better but I managed to listen to ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 book 4 chapter 4 = 40m
I did some passive listening with Gackt and Vivid Bad Squad music while clearing stuff but haven’t counted that.
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I’m up to 9 10 hours of my 15 hour goal! Listening to the Genki CDs while driving was a good idea: 15 minutes here, 30 there is really adding up! I think I’ll be able to make my goal this month!
…but how are we so far into September already? I could have sworn that it was just Labor Day yesterday or the day before…
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Day 22:
Around 8 hours of passive listening while I’ve continued reshuffling furniture and making space for FTTP broadband install on Wednesday. Hoping tomorrow will be the last day so I can get some proper listening in as I am definitely seeing a difference in my Language exchange and my tutor lessons when I do listen regularly as opposed to when I haven’t listened.
I’m not adding this to my total as I wasn’t focused on it so barely picked up anything from it.
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I feel the same. Maybe my brain just tunes into Japanese mode, but it definitely seems to flow better after a some decent immersion.
Anyway, it’s been a few days:
Anime
カオスヘッド S1 | L28 - Finished - 1 hour
スーパーカブ S1 | L22 - 1 episode - 0.4 hours
TV
すべて忘れてしまうから S1 | L30?? - 2 episodes - 1.2 hours
Audiobook
鴨川食堂 | L30?? - 0.3 hours
Shinobi app - 0.3 hours
Total: 3.2 hours
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I’ve been slacking so hard since last month 
I did notice that a book I loved a couple years ago got an audiobook though - すべての神様の十月 | L28 is now on Audible (America, but probably others too)
I’ll probably listen to it soon because it’s been long enough I don’t remember it all anymore. Might be a good lower level audiobook too? But I will be able to speak to that better after I start listening
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Day 23:
Think I’ve hit a wall possibly due to over working while trying to get stuff sorted for Wednesday. I tried watching the first 2 episodes of ダンジョン飯 and also re-listening to a chapter of ふしぎ駄菓子屋銭天堂 book 4 but understood none of it.
Giving up for today and hoping I do better tomorrow. Might re-listen to レンタルロボット again as I was understanding more of that before.
I do have a lesson and a language exchange meet up tomorrow so hoping I will do better in those 
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days 5-23
i got busy and kept forgetting to update this, but i have been doing my best to meet my daily goal! i am not going to list everything i’ve listened to over the past couple weeks, but it has primarily been content from 코드, didi’s korean culture podast, 갓마을 차차차, and 귀월. i’ve also been tuning in to 귀월’s streams when i can, but i’m not counting that towards listening because i tend to zone out while watching and can’t accurately guess how much i listened to.
i’m surprised i managed to average out 1 hour per day, but equally happy! i think i’ll be able to at least get very close to my 30 hour goal. 
sept 5 - today : 1043 minutes / 17.38 hours
total : 23.05 /30 hours
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day 24
i listened to a few vlogs for a total of 56 minutes and did roughly 3 hours of passive listening primarily through music and a little bit from a podcast. i’m hoping to find some more podcasts i’m interested in since i am getting through didi의 한국문화 podcast faster than she puts out episodes. until then, i might start re-listening to older episodes to see if i can make out an okay amount of content without referencing the script.
today: 56 mins / .93 hours
total: 23.98 out of 30 hours
looking at the total makes me want to listen for a few more minutes to hit a clean 24 hours
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I got pretty avoidant about watching and listening to things this month… so at this point I have 18.6 hrs left over 6 days. I plan to finish マリア様がみてる S1 | L27 and rewatch ガールズバンドクライ S1 | L26, since Blu-ray 4 just came in. So that nets me about another 7.3 hrs. It seems pretty unlikely I’ll make it to the 30 hrs this month, but who knows. I’ve decided to count anime with subs at this point (tho that was only 5 eps of マリア様), since I’m so far from the goal, and it’s still practicing my listening either way. Maybe if I suddenly go in really hard on an audiobook, but idk how likely that is at this point… ま、いいけど
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Not officially participating in the challenge but I finished listening to this today and it was definitely a very easy audiobook but not bad!
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Day 25, I think I’m done for this month. Couldn’t focus yesterday and today has been spent suffering from a head cold turned throat infection while clearing things up after the fibre install. Hoping it doesn’t going into a chest infection.
I doubt I’ll be able to focus much the rest of this week but will add any extra time if I do.
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24 - 26 Sept
TV
すべて忘れてしまうから S1 | L30?? - 4 episodes and finished - 2 hours
Podcasts
Bite Sized Japanese - 0.7 hours
Apps
Shinobi - 0.3 hours
(I need to get back to my audiobooks)
Total: 3 hours
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Finished マリア様がみてる S1 | L27 - 1st 5 eps with subs, the rest without (I didn’t find the subs till afterwards 
). Sometimes it was easy, sometimes it was clear that I’m still quite まだまだ… processing everything mixed in with the 尊敬語 and 謙譲語 was probably like 80% of the challenge
Watched the DVD of a Yuki Kajiura 2008 live show, and was able to understand quite a lot of the cross-talk/MC sections this time around. While I’d like that to be 100%, I can still remember watching it before I learned any Japanese (and after I started learning too), so it’s really nice to be able to understand 60-80% of them. As an aside, the difference btwn the YouTube video quality and the DVD quality is unbelievable. There’s an Interviews section on the disc, which I plan to watch soon as well!
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days 25-26
i don’t believe i did any listening yesterday, but today i did. only 7 minutes of my total were from korean content, but since i’ve finally started putting some focus into japanese, i watched/listened to the first 3 episodes of pokemon horizons without subs and listened to a short story that was about 3 minutes. i’m going to count japanese listening towards my total too
today: 81 mins / 1.35 hours
total: 25.33 out of 30 hours
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