I feel like if I work on my listening comprehension is may also help other areas of my Japanese by picking up new words. So is it acceptable to take a movie and watch it and keep rewinding parts where I don't catch everything? After that I imagine I should probably look it up.

In general my listening is terrible, and I would really like to put forth a lot of effort into this to be able to listen to normal-paced Japanese as soon as possible. Is 1 month even a goal that I can meet? I'm not sure how long it takes. All I know is that I've been slacking off since I started learning Japanese and want to get some noticeable progress. Also, TV and dramas are obviously also acceptable. I watch dramas with Japanese subs but I feel like I then pay too mmuch attention trying to read the subs and then lose my focus on actively listening.

P.S. I do use subs2rs but I wanted to take a break from it. It's also a great program but I have not noticed any gain in listening comprehension as a result.

This thread might help you

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7060

TheVinster Wrote:So is it acceptable to take a movie and watch it and keep rewinding parts where I don't catch everything?

Acceptable? You should do whatever works for you.

I have a habit of wanting to look up every word I don't know in whatever I'm watching or listening to. In fact that's probably how I've learnt most of my vocabulary. I also thought my listening was my weakest point, so for quite a while now I've really focused on it with TV shows, podcasts and the like. Podcasts are good because they tend to be real, unscripted dialogue, and you have no visual cues to kind of "cheat" with and know what's going on, or to distract you.

you should try the AJATT method for listening comprehesion:
10,000 hours of listening (google it). I think it holds true cause honeslty thta's what I did and now i can hear better.

speaking of which,,,, my proposed way of efficient listening:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2576&page=3

you can deifnitely apply it to your movies if have the subfiles etc.
I think you have to hear a word a bunch of times over until it really sticks/ you can recognize it etc.

I'd highly recommend watching TV shows with subs in your target language. Let your reading skills make up for where your ears are failing. You can extract the audio of your favorite shows that you have watched before and stick those on your mp3 player, for some extra exposure. Since you will already know the context, it's easier to pay attention to the words.

What I noticed was that the more vocab I learned, the better my listening got. It's an extremely simple formula - watch dramas with Japanese subs, look up all (or as much as) you can, put it in a vocab deck in Anki, watch the drama again without subs and you'll notice a big improvement. I normally don't rewatch it, instead just move on to the next episode, then the next drama. I find that sometimes I'll come back and rewatch it 3 ~ 6 months later and be amazed at how much clearer it is.

Vocab is everything.

It is a good idea if you love movies, but maybe very slow going. Japanese movies seem to have long periods with little to no dialogue. News clips with transcripts would seem to be the most efficient way.朝日 NHK TV東京 FNN You also get the added benefit of keeping up with current events.

bodhisamaya Wrote:It is a good idea if you love movies, but maybe very slow going. Japanese movies seem to have long periods with little to no dialogue. News clips with transcripts would seem to be the most efficient way.朝日 NHK TV東京 FNN You also get the added benefit of keeping up with current events.

Which one do you recommend the most out of those news stations? By the way, the NHK link does not work.

Yea, I haven't used that NHK link for a while. It must have changed.
I like FNN. I watch a clip first. Then, read the transcripts before watching again.

Do you think it's okay for someone who might not have a great vocabulary? Just looking at the transcript really scares me. I feel like I'll have a ton of new words in each sentence. It would be really tough to digest it all, maybe?

You need Rikaichan for the transcripts. Many of the more complex kanji are seen daily, so you will rely on it less and less as time passes. You will be learning vocabulary in context so it will stick. With FNN, WMP can be set to slow mode if you want to read the transcripts will listening. You can watch all of the stories for the day in a stream that lasts on average 90 minutes as well.