Just want to share the things I have found best for passive listening are condensed audio for anime and audio books of books I've read. Of course I have context, have mined the new vocab words, and enjoyed the content enough to finish it. All this combines to reinforce all those mined words by hearing them again and of course train your ear to listen better.
HOT TAKE: Passive listening is at best only slightly effective and at worst a complete waste of time. At least in my experience it was. And when I say passive I mean when you’re completely Immersed in another task and giving very little/no attention to Japanese. This made up a huge portion of my immersion 6 months ago and I only started to notice improvements in my comprehension when I switched to doing mostly active immersion. If it works for others tho I’d say keep doing it.
Good take, there’s 2 kinds of passive listening and the one you’re referring to is completely passive, the kind that helps is when you’re kinda listening but the task is brain dead so like walking your dog or something
Personally i made a seperate youtube channel and set its country to jp and only follow jp videos and sub to jp channels with it so its 100% jp focused on algorythms and usually I watch gaming youtubers who just straight talk to eachother while i have the gameplay to focus on and to help me attempt to understand what they're talking about
Have you heard about subs2cia? It basically does everything you did, but with just one line of command. Also, you can condense the video and the subtitles (resynced) in the process. For automatic subtitle retiming, I recommend alass.
I love how Japanese learning guid slowly but surely get turned in to a PC-Hacker mode with console, .bat files, folder management and etc. Thank you for sharing ! Also, can I ask you two questions? Do you know, where is it possible to watch: 1. Anime with accurate English subtitles (where subs is just telling what is really character saying about, without some kind of changes or adaptation) 2. Anime with Japanese subs, which is possible to translate into English by clicking on them. (I saw this in one of your videos)
Okkei Japanese Podcast Nihongo con Teppei Yuyu の日本語 Podcast News in Slow Japanese Japanese with Shun Oyasumi Japanese with Shun Haru no nihongo All very good. Some of them have RUclips channels too
I had everything I need and even pasted the .bat file into each of my episode folders, but when I open one of those .bat files it just says "'ffmpeg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Combined audio files into combined_output.mp3 Press any key to continue..." what do I do from here?
You didn’t install ffmpeg correctly, you have to add it to your system path - it takes only a couple min but just search up how to install and you’ll find it for every guide
Just fyi, due to scamming and such, a lot of links are automatically blocked. There are of course ways around it but you can also send it directly to the youtuber
The thumbnail is funny: NO MORE PODCASTS. I'm sure many other people are on the different side of the spectrum. I'd gladly listen to more podcasts discussing some interesting topics than watch shounen toons. The problem is that it's too hard to follow the discussions about capitalism or abortion or the role of philosophy in scientific discovery when your vocab is limited. That's why there's a phase of "kagebunshin no jutsu" in Japanese learning.
Yeah, I don't really believe the core thesis of the video at the start. It think that semi-active listening (listening while doing with low cognitive load) is helpful, especially at intermediate levels and higher, I don't think truly passive listening where there is no focus is helpful. At best I think it just makes you worse at the task at hand. Multi-tasking is almost always a bad idea, it only works well when both tasks are so simple that the bar for productivity is extremely low. I don't think that hearing random conversations in the background particularly helps natives in their first language besides acquiring phonetics, it is when they are actually actively involved where they acquire most of their language. Also I personally hate condensed anime because it has an incredibly unnatural flow and the jarring jumpcuts often take me out the immersion almost instantly.
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cuz of your videos ive started passive listening for multiple hours a day, thank you alot
Just want to share the things I have found best for passive listening are condensed audio for anime and audio books of books I've read. Of course I have context, have mined the new vocab words, and enjoyed the content enough to finish it. All this combines to reinforce all those mined words by hearing them again and of course train your ear to listen better.
I know you think not too many folks watch your vids bro, but these help immensely. Thanks!
HOT TAKE: Passive listening is at best only slightly effective and at worst a complete waste of time. At least in my experience it was. And when I say passive I mean when you’re completely
Immersed in another task and giving very little/no attention to Japanese.
This made up a huge portion of my immersion 6 months ago and I only started to notice improvements in my
comprehension when I switched to doing mostly active immersion. If it works for others tho I’d say keep doing it.
Good take, there’s 2 kinds of passive listening and the one you’re referring to is completely passive, the kind that helps is when you’re kinda listening but the task is brain dead so like walking your dog or something
Personally i made a seperate youtube channel and set its country to jp and only follow jp videos and sub to jp channels with it so its 100% jp focused on algorythms and usually I watch gaming youtubers who just straight talk to eachother while i have the gameplay to focus on and to help me attempt to understand what they're talking about
I really enjoy the "nihongo con teppei" podcast.
3:23 I always say 寒い with the incorrect pitch accent because of the funton song
Have you heard about subs2cia? It basically does everything you did, but with just one line of command. Also, you can condense the video and the subtitles (resynced) in the process.
For automatic subtitle retiming, I recommend alass.
I love how Japanese learning guid slowly but surely get turned in to a PC-Hacker mode with console, .bat files, folder management and etc. Thank you for sharing !
Also, can I ask you two questions?
Do you know, where is it possible to watch:
1. Anime with accurate English subtitles (where subs is just telling what is really character saying about, without some kind of changes or adaptation)
2. Anime with Japanese subs, which is possible to translate into English by clicking on them. (I saw this in one of your videos)
1) I don't think that that is possible because it is a translation and translation changes
2) migaku or Language Reactor chrome add ons
@@chrs2436 thank you so much for reply!
Where could I find japanese podcasts? I don't usually listen to podcasts. Also love to see new Japanese study content :)
I used to get mine on Spotify but you can just search up different stuff on RUclips too
Okkei Japanese Podcast
Nihongo con Teppei
Yuyu の日本語 Podcast
News in Slow Japanese
Japanese with Shun
Oyasumi Japanese with Shun
Haru no nihongo
All very good. Some of them have RUclips channels too
I had everything I need and even pasted the .bat file into each of my episode folders, but when I open one of those .bat files it just says
"'ffmpeg' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Combined audio files into combined_output.mp3
Press any key to continue..."
what do I do from here?
You didn’t install ffmpeg correctly, you have to add it to your system path - it takes only a couple min but just search up how to install and you’ll find it for every guide
yoo ty
I made a bash script for linux users who would like to do this as well, how can I share it with you to put in the description?
If you can upload it to pastebin and send the link here, I’ll put it in the description!
@@ryacw youtube doesn't like people sending links so after the com add the code /0EPd7PsR
@@ryacw youtube doesn't like links, I will send it to you through insta
@@ryacwRUclips seems to block my comments after trying to, this is my alt
Just fyi, due to scamming and such, a lot of links are automatically blocked. There are of course ways around it but you can also send it directly to the youtuber
Man, day ago i wrote a comment and now i can't see it,
did you read it ? my previous comment???
I don’t see it on here but sometimes RUclips blocks comments automatically based on what you wrote
@@ryacwtry make vid about jidoujishou jp tool
@ryacw try to make vid about jidoujishou jp tool
The thumbnail is funny: NO MORE PODCASTS. I'm sure many other people are on the different side of the spectrum. I'd gladly listen to more podcasts discussing some interesting topics than watch shounen toons. The problem is that it's too hard to follow the discussions about capitalism or abortion or the role of philosophy in scientific discovery when your vocab is limited. That's why there's a phase of "kagebunshin no jutsu" in Japanese learning.
Yeah, I don't really believe the core thesis of the video at the start. It think that semi-active listening (listening while doing with low cognitive load) is helpful, especially at intermediate levels and higher, I don't think truly passive listening where there is no focus is helpful. At best I think it just makes you worse at the task at hand. Multi-tasking is almost always a bad idea, it only works well when both tasks are so simple that the bar for productivity is extremely low. I don't think that hearing random conversations in the background particularly helps natives in their first language besides acquiring phonetics, it is when they are actually actively involved where they acquire most of their language.
Also I personally hate condensed anime because it has an incredibly unnatural flow and the jarring jumpcuts often take me out the immersion almost instantly.