Well folks, let the experimentation begin. I'm not sure if this will bomb out, but being ready to try anything I'm going all out with it.

Based on the success of my reading project, I have decided to go all out and see if I can up my listening as I have my reading. My plan is to manage my media and build a situation where 80% of what I am listening to has been worked over in some way and is understood. The actually practical side of this is:

# After wiping all the media from my iPhone.

Music: All songs get lyrics. Some words are SRSed.

Video: I plan to download about 1 hour of TBS videos or so per fortnight and go through them instead of watching TV. I also plan to do the Deathnote episode 1 Subs2Srs deck as I've read the first 3 volumes of the manga.

Audio: I plan to strip anime and tbs videos of their audio and slap lyrics on them. A lot of these can be Subs2Srsed I guess. I primarily plan to keep doing reading listening with Bleach and Naruto at this point as they are close enough to their anime versions. I also plan to work through FMA Brotherhood as I like the show.

20% left over will be just generally enjoying TV and internet radio (although I plan to move more to songs I know after I build up a good size media file.)

All of these are set as tasks and only added on a fortnightly basis, so that I don't overdo things.

Basically, in posting this I am looking to see if anyone is doing this or has done this. Did it work? What didn't work? Any ideas on how to level this up further.

Note: I think my listening skills are not too bad. I am dead on N3 in listening at this point, in my opinion. Unfortunately, the problem is they are starting to lag behind my speaking, reading, writing due to the production approach and my beginning reading manga, etc. I really need to keep this area strong, as it is probably the most important one to develop.

An hour of TBS video every 2 weeks doesn't seem like much.

Do you mean 'media principle' as in a basic truth, or do you really mean 'principal'?

See my thread: audio environment: 60/30/10

This basic idea is something that can be accomplished in many ways and I imagine everyone here has done it to some extent. I never put the above strategy into play (I think I found it too difficult to implement filters + Anki maturities), but there's all sorts of ways to do it on a more general level. I actually developed (and posted about it a long time ago in the milestone thread) a completely comprehensive 日本語 self-study system but never used it properly (got sidetracked... ), but I'm currently reworking it in light of new tools and strategies from the past year or so.

I think this idea of an ecological gradient integrated with the spacing effect was my answer to the Krashenic i+1 thing which I've always thought to be terrible as the anti-grammar/card-creation axiom it's often used as, and said ought to (at least) be i+x (and o+x, see: languaging/comprehensible output) + systematic meta-study.

Sorry for the ramble.

Thanks Nestor. That was a good read.

Hehe, I know, but I probably see/hear about 14 hours+ of Japanese per day which is 30% or so comprensible. I think I'm just trying to move that up a bit!

I just liked the sound of it! I plan to copyright it one day and go AJATT. (Joke).

hehe Yeah sorry, didn't mean to go off on a tangent. Just wanted to link to that to show a more neurotic variation and to offset that by noting you're probably on the right track and it's something many have glommed onto possibly because the underlying idea is a good one.

A lot of it has to do with creating ‘Eureka moments’ which I believe there are actual studies on. Memory's hazy on specifics, though.