You may pick up some words through passive listening, but if you can’t understand the majority of words said it won’t be of any use. I'll keep working at it every day! You should be able to find some simple japanese audiobooks online. I have also started to spend time not looking at the subtitles on anime or at least parsing the sentence in my head before I read the translation. When done, you created an hour of audio that you comprehend near 100%. This will reinforce a lot of vocab you’d hear often in these streams, and the other great thing is you’ll get reading practice since the games have Japanese … I've made a lot of progress with my reading comprehension and I don't have to look up as many words as I used to, but my listening doesn't really seem to have improved much. now I'd say, depending on the topic and whether a dialect is being spoken, I can follow along and understand a really good chunk of what I'm watching/listening to. The only time I wouldn’t recommend gaming streams is if a person’s vocab is low and if their listening skills are low. Also, YouTube has a section for live-streams too btw. Press J to jump to the feed. Keep doing it till you're finished with like an hour of audio.

You've just completed Beginner level, there's more to go. Use hello talk and use voice chat. He streams mostly obscure retro stuff (which is my thing) and he and his community are pretty much bilingual. Well you've gotten through the first part, acknowledging that subtitles and songs do little to help listening comprehension because one is just reading and one is not like talking at all. Do you have any techniques or resources that have helped you? You can supplement your vocabulary with other wordlists via anki/iknow.jp (use rlearnjapanese for 3 month trial)/memrise. A lot of the genki stuff is for good intro and chatting type conversations. number 1 recommendation is to look for a Japanese meetup group using meetup.com and see if you can practice with real people who will learn with you. He's marked some of the conversations he's done so far with (easy) or (hard), and seems to be continuing to upload more of them. You can also read the scripts. Keep doing subs2srs to improve your library of listening material. If you live in Japan, go to a bar. It gives a nice opportunity to process what is being said before seeing the answer, and once the caption pops up you get to practice reading hiragana/katakana/kanji as well. Don't try too hard! Hope that helps! Use it to figure out sentence by sentence what is being said. I found it to be a great learning tool. Would you recommend it, or do you think there are better sources to learn from? I'm still at a lower-intermediate level but I would say my listening is at a very similar level to my reading. Since I already enjoy frequenting Twitch streams, I wanted to ask if you guys perhaps have any good Japanese ones to follow :). I actually don't recommend this as the main solution to your problem, but coincidentally enough, I recently started a 'Anime Vocabulary' playlist on my Learning Japanese YouTube where I provide a vocabulary list of all the stand-out word in a whole, individual episode of anime, so if you want to try transitioning into watching anime without the subtitles, that's something you might want to check out.
The process is slower and you can look up more words as necessary. I'm interested what you think about this, especially since I only started learning in the past month :). Anyways, I would suggest you go and do all of the Listening Comp in Genki 1 and doing it through Genki 2. twitch.tv/sdc333 is great. my advice would be not to just passively listen (although this helps too) but to try to follow along really closely to what is being said even if you don't understand it; try to just listen to the sounds of the words and keep up with the pace. and then one day - after listening to Japanese all the time, watching Japanese TV every day, and going to Japan for extended periods of time - something suddenly snapped and listening became one of my strongest skills. 助けて下さい！. If you're watching TV or something, don't fool yourself into thinking that you understood because you can infer from context. I was wondering if there were people who had this problem too and how you got over this? You make a good point about the quality of the streamer's vocabulary as well.

Welcome to r/LearnJapanese, *the* hub on Reddit for learners of the Japanese Language. Listening to that audio a lot will improve your listening to a large degree. What did you guys do for listening practice at the stage that I'm at?

There are many websites that offer listening practice. Subs2srs and Anki can help you figure out a drama, anime, or anything that has some timing file for subtitles. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Likewise, when watching Japanese shows, putting on Japanese subtitles can be helpful for getting you used to comprehending at normal speed. I'd also recommend Ohayou app for listening practice after you reach intermediate. for some variety shows I'd say it's like 75% comprehension. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I've been watching Japanese shows and reading for a very long time every day. But, most importantly, actual conversation. I'm already following a few streams that are centered around Japanese language learning, like English speakers playing Japanese games and translating in-game text. I guess the main takeaway is to consume these kind of things alongside regular study and high-quality listening material like podcasts and audiobooks. Press J to jump to the feed. They are good places to start. It'll usually be mostly Japanese at the start of his streams (around prime time Japan time) and then English-speaking chatters will slowly creep in as the western world is waking up, but it's always a mix, More posts from the LearnJapanese community.

He speaks Japanese unless answering an English chatter, but almost everyone watching understands Japanese and it's about 50/50 natives to non-natives.

And in case you don't have any suggestions, I'm curious-- what do you think of the idea overall? Ohh, thanks for the link! I'll listen to NHK news and follow along with the transcript right now since that sounds fun. you'll have moments where it'll be like "oh so that's what that meant!". I talked about this in one my posts here! If I'm reading a transcript of what Japanese people are saying, I can understand it, but when it's spoken, I have no idea what people are saying. I can maybe pick out a couple of words, but I can't really understand what anything means. That's indeed why I was specifically looking for livestreams, as I find them to be engaging in a way that regular videos don't really match up to.

Since subs2srs does it sentence by sentence, you can repeat these as speaking practice. At the end of the day it just comes down to experience, I'd recommend finding a couple episodes of talk shows and watching the same one multiple times to begin with and see if you make decent progress, hopefully overtime you get used to listening to the sentence constructions and the words become familiar then that should make understanding new material easier because your ears will know what to listen for and be used to hearing standard sentences. So besides the basics of reading, writing and listening, I practice vocabulary regularly. I'm learning grammar etc. There are some easy dramas/anime you can watch.

I find that dramas are the best. "japanese people can't speak japanese" should be easy. I'm learning grammar etc. Hey fellow Japanese learners! I'm currently looking for ways to practice my Japanese listening skills from natural sources. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChBBWt5H8uZW1LSOh_aPt2Q.

For listening practice, I think finding material you enjoy is the most important part since it will lead to consistency and watching similar material. You should be in a relaxed state when listening and comprehension should come naturally. Consider using podcasts to get your daily (or weekly) dose of Japanese listening practice. Reading along to transcripts as it is read by a native speaker is very helpful. I'm hoping to get to a point where I feel confident engaging in chat as well, which is a fun goal I can probably achieve in the near future ^^. I’ve seen a few of these with the auto translate. So besides the basics of reading, writing and listening, I practice vocabulary regularly.

So I've been learning japanese for like 2-3 months now. You could try Pimsleur or something like that, although a bit robotic and bookish it helps with comprehension and speech.

I think the biggest thing that improved my comprehension skills (other than constant listening) was to improve my understanding of grammar and to increase my vocabulary. More active listening!
Just search any game you like and filter by language. In this post, I'll share 7 podcasts that will improve your Japanese listening skills, as well as your overall Japanese ability. I found that talk shows are pretty good as well, and let me tell you, Japan has a fucking TONNE of them. Unfortunately the answer is a simple listen and listen more.

chi's sweet home is super simple.

number 1 recommendation is to look for a Japanese meetup group using meetup.com and see if you can practice with real people who will learn with you. By figuring out the Japanese you help your vocabulary and grammar and speaking. I found NHK news helpful, because the article is basically a transcript of what the announcer is saying.

with the japanese from zero series (currently in book two) and I also have a private japanese teacher, so grammar, speaking and reading is pretty much covered.