aberu Wrote:So I have taken to reading FNN in the past week and started looping the articles on my mp3 player whenever i am outside my house, while breaking them down into +1 easy chunks in Anki.. I feel my ability to pick out words very quickly increasing, but I have a pretty important (at least to me) question:My experience here tells me, read/do a lot of vocab/sentences via your anki decks,etc. And keep listening/reading and your eventually going to hear more words, be able to read more and eventually your going to notice you can read 70%, then 80%, then 90% then almost all of it with ease. But it just takes time. It's hard to state how I did this, because I just did these simple things: Listened so much, read a lot, srsed so much. And eventually after a while, I just gained it naturally, and it was enjoyable/fun
How extensive is the vocab of these news websites?
I really want that huge, explosion of passive vocabulary at my disposal. I want that badly. I want to comprehend, to understand, and I already have learned quite a lot in just a week doing 4 articles at a leisurely pace.. However, how much vocabulary can I expect to pick up compared to an actual newspaper? How much compared to a book, or to entertainment television, or even to eachother? How does the vocab from TBS news compare to FNN? More vocabulary, or more intense grammatical structures?
Does anyone have any input on this? I know AJATT owner had an article about this, and it said a little, but I was wondering if anyone else with actual experience/knowledge about this could give a little input.
I am really enjoying the news right now and being to just pick out a random short article, knowing the article AND an almost perfect re-speaking audio clip are both right there, ripe for learnin'.. It is really awesome. It would really be nice to know what kind of limitations I should expect. Thanks
aberu Wrote:So I have taken to reading FNN in the past week and started looping the articles on my mp3 player whenever i am outside my house, while breaking them down into +1 easy chunks in Anki.. I feel my ability to pick out words very quickly increasing, but I have a pretty important (at least to me) question:What's the best/easiest way to rip the audio from the FNN broadcasts? I tried getting some streaming downloading software a while ago and failed pretty miserably. There was something unexpectedly convoluted occurring when I last gave it a shot. But I've been wanting to get a very similar routine going for a while as FNN has those nice transcripts to go with the audio... Thanks for any suggestions!
kodorakun Wrote:What's the best/easiest way to rip the audio from the FNN broadcasts? I tried getting some streaming downloading software a while ago and failed pretty miserably. There was something unexpectedly convoluted occurring when I last gave it a shot. But I've been wanting to get a very similar routine going for a while as FNN has those nice transcripts to go with the audio... Thanks for any suggestions!I don't know about the easiest, but this is how I do it on XP.
GreenAirth Wrote:I actually use Creative WaveStudio 7.10.24. I had an Audigy 2 back in the day that came with a different version that could do mp3.. eventually I lost the drivers, but I searched for a week and found this awesome version. I don't know if your audio card supports it (alot do), but I create a new file in Wavestudio, and set the recording device to "Rec. Playback/Audio Output" and it just records all the audio coming out of my speakers. Then I save it as an WMA 192kbps file after some editting. The great thing about it is the awesome options it has as far as increasing/decreasing volume which I use for normalization purposes so I don't have to constantly change the volume on my mp3 playerkodorakun Wrote:What's the best/easiest way to rip the audio from the FNN broadcasts? I tried getting some streaming downloading software a while ago and failed pretty miserably. There was something unexpectedly convoluted occurring when I last gave it a shot. But I've been wanting to get a very similar routine going for a while as FNN has those nice transcripts to go with the audio... Thanks for any suggestions!I don't know about the easiest, but this is how I do it on XP.
Download. install and run SDP Downloader
Select the play in Windows Media Player option for the FNN stream you want to extract.
Right click on the streaming video, view properties and copy the stream location.
Click Open in SDP Downloader and paste in the location. When it tells you "URL list now has data, please select an entry", simply click Go, and you'll be able to download the asf video file.
Extract the audio with AoA Audio Extractor (free) and you're good to go.
Shouldn't take longer than a couple of minutes.
what area did you focus on to do it? did you do more listening of dramas, or more news..? i am not sure i could stand listening to a drama on my mp3, but i would be willing to if it will help me as much as these news clips (which are all about 殺人罪 O_O).
