(10 hours ago)cophnia61 Wrote: I' using these audiobooks to improve my listening ability and I feel some improvements.
But I wonder how are they in order of difficulty?
For example the first 6 mins of this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sIApF_RQ38
how do you put it in terms of jlpt? if I take the jlpt n3, the listening section will be more difficult than this?
No, that's certainly more challenging than the N3 listening test. It's maybe somewhere on par with N2 or N1, but it's hard to really draw an equivalent. Stories and conversations have somewhat different vocabulary and listening skills, but still there's a lot of overlap. (There's even conversations inside of stories, just not in the kinds of mundane detail that the test listening pieces go into. At least, not unless it's a terribly boring story...)
This guy speaks at about the N2 test speaking pace, I think? Although as my listening gets better, what I'm listening to sounds less fast.
You might want to just take the JLPT web-based sample test. It only has one of each type of question or something, but you can get a sense of the speed and vocabulary level. You can just keep hitting 次 if you want to hurry to the listening and not answer the written. http://www.jlpt.jp/e/samples/n3.html