iSoron, I agree. Yesterday I spent nearly the whole waking day listening to Japanese audio. I spent about three hours actively listening to Japanesepod; the rest of the the time consisted of passive listening to pure Japanese sources that I had no prior exposure to.

The active listening taught me new words and re-enforced old ones, whereas the passive listening seemed to merely re-enforce. However, it is possible that I was subconsciously learning to better parse Japanese sentences without being aware of it.

As Nukemarine suggested, I also found pure spoken Japanese at a natural rhythm to be more helpful than Japanese lyrics sung in music.

Today, I have just finished my 3 hours of Japanesepod so I am now about to slip into passive listening for the rest of the day. However, I'm going to try to familiarize myself with the translations of the audio at some point to make the learning more effective.

samesong Wrote:Just watched the fuckin interview. That was some totally fuckin badass shit. I'm glad his bitchass finally got interviews and shit. I was kinda fuckin' wondering to myself if he was really for fuckin' real, you know? And like, that motherfucker can actually speak Japanese!






*****.

that's fuckin' hilarious dude, like totally mindfuckingly hilarious.

I like ***** talking like this, it makes me fuckin' sound like a total ***** chav. xD


I am overdoing the ***** now aren't I?