Intermediate learner presently listening to Asahi Shinbun podcasts, which are full of unfamiliar words — I get maybe 20% first time, 40% second time, 50% third time. Is it better to listen to one podcast episode over and over to become familiar with each word, or is it better to listen to a stream of unfamiliar material?
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Listen to new material to avoid getting bored. If you insist, passively listen to things you’ve already listened while doing other things like cooking, walking, etc.
– Find content with downloadable Japanese subtitles.
– Download subtitles.
– Put subtitles into the parser at [jpdb.io](https://jpdb.io) to extract vocab.
– Learn unknown words.
– Watch the content with your newly learned vocab.
If you are listening, and walking, why not re-listen while trying to speak along with it?
There way more muscle memory to speaking outside your native language than most people pay attention to.
Everyone is shooting for the level where you speak without even thinking about what you want to say, and you have a perfect example set available.