Vocab is the way to increase listening skills/keep listening. I've kept listening to stuff so many times from different sources over these months. I can follow news nowadays fine, expect places/names full of kanji and some vocab.(With the transcript of course in front of me)

Nukemarine Wrote:What really helped me was listening to dramas I understood at almost near 100% comprehension on a sentence by sentence level.

The only way I pulled that off was running a drama through subs2srs and figuring it out line by line. Anki could then ensure my comprehension stayed at near 100%. That hour of drama then became the perfect listening aid. Doing this to just two or three dramas made listening to other dramas (or anything in Japanese) so much more easier that it defies description.

Nukemarine,
Do you have an Anki deck setup for sub2srs (for whatever drama that is still procurable) for one of those two or three shows that you'd be willing to share? I'd like to give that method a thought but I don't have the time to work through the overhead at the moment.

k.

kodorakun Wrote:

Nukemarine Wrote:What really helped me was listening to dramas I understood at almost near 100% comprehension on a sentence by sentence level.

The only way I pulled that off was running a drama through subs2srs and figuring it out line by line. Anki could then ensure my comprehension stayed at near 100%. That hour of drama then became the perfect listening aid. Doing this to just two or three dramas made listening to other dramas (or anything in Japanese) so much more easier that it defies description.

Nukemarine,
Do you have an Anki deck setup for sub2srs (for whatever drama that is still procurable) for one of those two or three shows that you'd be willing to share? I'd like to give that method a thought but I don't have the time to work through the overhead at the moment.

k.

I know once you understand one thing in japanese, it starts going towards other media,anime,dramas,etc Vocab really goes around everywhere, I didn't use subs2srs and I still gained the ability to understand almost 100% of the time for japanese(most things). Vocab is the way to go after you've done context(sentences) for a while.

Sorry for the brutal truth, but two months is far too short a period to notice any significant change in your listening skills. The best you can do is simply to listen 24-7 and hope for the best.

And yes, you will have to become a hikikomori to an extensive degree.

Not true! I guess it was totally different, but I homestayed in Japan for 6 weeks and my listening skills improved exponentially.