(2016-02-08, 1:52 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Thanks a lot for the suggestions. Unfortunately, these are also way out of my league as of now. I just hear a whole lot of meaningless Japanese - even when I'm able to recognize words, they don't really make any sense in the grand scheme of things. They're almost as alien as seeing kanji you're familiar with... in Chinese.
Then it's probably better for the time being to work with things you have transcripts for - TV shows, NHK articles with video clips, books like READ REAL JAPANESE, L/R resources in the Bonaparte thread (http://forum.koohii.com/thread-6840.html), etc. That and real life convo - e.g., iTalki lessons - will go a long way in both building your vocab and training your ear.