Rather belatedly, I wrote (a) 自己紹介っぽい on the intro/about page. Which is currently only in Japanese and probably has errors everywhere (later I’ll post it to Lang-8 or have my tutor correct it, but for now it can just stand as-is), but if anyone wanted to know a bit more about me, there you go.

I started listening to JapanesePod101 again (I say like I ever really got very far with it) starting from the first Lower Intermediate lessons. Kind of hate all the sessions Peter is in, which is unfortunate given he’s kind of the founder and thus in most of them, but his accent is so distracting (in both English and Japanese), and his jokes are mostly awful and awkward. Also kind of can’t wait until I can deal with the episodes that are entirely in Japanese anyway.

But right now I think Lower Intermediate is pretty much my current speed. I’m getting like 60-70% comprehension at normal speed and 80-90% at slow speed before they give the vocab, and unfortunately all these lessons are half in English. So hopefully if I work through all of the lower intermediate material, I can bump that up so that normal-speed listening comprehension is closer to the 80-90%, at the very least.

Plus, it’s nice getting both the grammar and vocab reviews in, since I still have trouble getting some things to stick without ‘real world’ usage. Learning sentences with Anki/iKnow can help, but sometimes it seems to take seeing a word/grammar point in a book or hear it in an actual conversation or show/movie before it really sticks for whatever reason.