Ughhh, I got so busy with work that I really let things slide the past two weeks. Thankfully I just finished this project so it should be back to normal this week. Annoying.
On the listening front, I’ve decided to abandon podcasts for active, challenging learning. What happened was I went back to an intermediate video on Comprehensible Japanese and after the listening gains I’ve made the past month I realized how much less effort this was with the words here and there that I didn’t know. I realized partway through the video that it’s the children’s show approach–she’s showing the listener exactly what she’s talking about. For building up my audio automaticity, I’m just going to do this kind of video from now on. Of course, I need to find hours and hours of it…
I just wish I’d gone the video direction in the fall. I think I would have stuck with it better.
Ughhh, I got so busy with work that I really let things slide the past two weeks. Thankfully I just finished this project so it should be back to normal this week. Annoying.
On the listening front, I’ve decided to abandon podcasts for active, challenging learning. What happened was I went back to an intermediate video on Comprehensible Japanese and after the listening gains I’ve made the past month I realized how much less effort this was with the words here and there that I didn’t know. I realized partway through the video that it’s the children’s show approach–she’s showing the listener exactly what she’s talking about. For building up my audio automaticity, I’m just going to do this kind of video from now on. Of course, I need to find hours and hours of it…
I just wish I’d gone the video direction in the fall. I think I would have stuck with it better.