I'm using WaniKani for vocab/kanji, reading stuff on my kindle from https://jgrpg-sakura.com/, and had a subscription to www.japanesepod101.com though I'm thinking of cancelling it since a lot of the stuff seems to be a bit all over the place – some lessons are easy some i feel like I understand nothing. I have been watching some vloggers/japanese channels occasionally as well. I just subscribed to https://cijapanese.com/watch (comprehensible japanese) as I really like these videos. Listening is still pretty hard, so I'm wondering as well how you guys handle new words in videos, etc when you encounter them – do you use like Anki or a flash card app or something and make flash cards? I'm not currently doing that, but I had the idea today to do so. I'd estimate myself around low N3.
Really curious to see what everyone else is doing and what you guys are struggling with. For reading, long sentences with lots of clauses chained with ～て forms, I get lost easily and I have to re-read it and sometimes use a translator to help me understand it. For listening I often miss entire sentences because I don't know a few words, can't understand an onomatopoeia, too fast, etc..
Another thing I was thinking about is "passive listening". I've been very intentionally trying to only listen when I can fully focus and try to fully comprehend what I'm hearing, but I'm wondering about passive listening and if it has value – and what you guys' experience is with it. Not necessarily something like "listening to japanese while sleeping", but listening in the background while doing other activities, working etc – and maybe not caring as much as to how much you understnad.
by Galvnayr