51 Minutes of Intermediate Japanese Listening Comprehension
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In this video, you’ll challenge your Japanese listening comprehension skills. You will listen to small dialogues for Intermediate Level by Japanese native speakers. This is THE place to start if you want to start learning Japanese, and improve both your listening and speaking skills.
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These are great exercises, but furigana would be helpful above the Japanese subtitles!
I agree with the reply above me, you can hear the pronunciation. Stop reading and start listening. When you actually read (as in a book, or article) you’re mainly doing it for vocabulary and general input to get used to the way things are structured, both in the spoken language (dialogue, quotes) and the written. When you listen, your focus is better off being entirely on just that: listening. How well you can comprehend words and sentences which are spoken to you out loud is important, because there are no subtitles in reality.
Just listen to the voices and pick out the pronunciation that way (it is listening comprehension after all)
That would be nice
That’s a good advice!
This video is perfect for my level! Very challenging but able to understand maybe 20% on the first go and 50%-60% after seeing the subtitles. Thanks for doing stuff like this for free!
Same goes for me bro
This was great! 8 months of study and I got most right
Wow this was very useful!!! Thanks so much!
Thank you JapanesePod101 for sharing these free tutorials .
The videos are good and helpful thank you for this free program. I have to add some critics too: The exercise at 39mins in my eyes is completely incomprehensible unless you hear the explanation first. I was totally lost what 1st, 2nd, 3rd means. The pictures are also quite confusing: The board with people could also be a “meeting”, what does the red people mean? The cashier could be the cafe too! If you mean a lesson or class use a doctors hat, everybody knows it’s school! If you want to show a part time job use a shovel or any tools crossed as a symbol for work. I think both symbols for school and work are internationally understandable compared to a cashier and people in front of a board. thanks!
I feel like for me the grammar is really really easy but i’ve noticed i just don’t know some of the vocab, anyone else have the same problem?
MeeTT
I just use these to learn more vocab anyway. (Just learn grammer from books and vids) Vocab will come overtime.
Yeah the vocab is difficult… But somehow I can guess most of the answers correctly based on context and guess what the vocab mean.
I learned from random apps so I have a very weird and broad vocab but no experience with sentences, speaking, or conversation
Me too ???
Great! I thought I wasn’t as good at Japanese but I got most of them right! (*´∇｀*) ありがとうございました！
This is way too easy for me. So I guess that’s a personal achievement ?
hi Lisa, I have been learn a lot with you, bacause you do it very easy thank you for everything!!!
i need some help to improve my channel because I’m english teacher volunteer. ;)))
finally found something on my level hope I can improve now
Very difficult, but very different and nice!
Please make more of such videos wherein we get to see kana and english
This video made me realize that my Japanese listening skills are not that bad!
This is great listening practice for self-study japanese learners. I am grateful to JP101 for putting this on, but I wish the english translation were were more exact of what they actually said. It would help to understand the grammar and the vocab better. For example, in the first one – ようさそうね does not mean “it’s got everything we need, doesn’t it”. It means “looks good, right?”. Lots of examples like that. Again. I am grateful to JP101 for doing this, and please give us more, but just a suggestion.
I agree with this! The sentence which confused me a bit was 海が見えるお部屋での禁煙のツインルームは満室となっております。which they translated as “The only ocean view room available on that day is a smoking room”, but in reality it literally says “Non-smoking twin bed rooms with a view to the sea are fully booked.”
Came to the comment section to say this too! Very very good listening practice but the english translation can be a bit misleading/confusing for people who has no idea what some specific words mean and are trying to take notes to remember them!
Demo Mann you are right, when content is aimed at learners, traduction must be as loyal to the target language as it can be. Interpretation leads to misconceptions by learners when they relate the word’s meaning to the interpreted traduction. Especially in japanese since it’s so foreign grammarly-wise
I Really like that you are putting those videos of a kind together in one! Good job!
Hi Risa! I’ve been trying to learn Japanese for quite a long time now. What would you suggest to be the best thing to learn. Reading Japanese, Writing Japanese or Speaking Japanese in Japan? And what would be the fastest way to learn any of them? Arigato Gozai Mas!
Ooohh, thanks!
Speaking and listening are more important than reading and writing, but are much harder to find good resources for. I’d say that listening is slightly more important than speaking, but you really need both.
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i like those long videos/compilations 🙂 *needs to improve listening skill*