I’ve been trying to up my listening immersion recently. I’ve listened to a bunch of podcasts targeted at japanese learners (which have all been great and got me to where I am!) but I’m looking to branch out into content targeted at native speakers. I’d say my listening is about N2 right now, but happy to push myself listening to things above that.
Maybe something story ish based like ‘this american life’, but I’m open to anything.
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Which is the most difficult ones you listen to now? And what topics are you interested in?
Is YUYUの日本語Podcast too easy? I follow some that are much more difficult.
Not a podcast but try listening to japanese songs and write the lyrics ?
Podcasts I follow in increasing order of difficulty:
4989 American Life: a lady talking her life living in California
オーイシマサヨシのMBSヤングタウン: an anime song writer talking about the music industry, anime industry, and whatever he wants
すごい進化ラジオ: an evolutionary biologist explains a broad concept every season with different examples each episode. The concepts are frankly pretty difficult to follow (and the names of different insect species), but the way how example after example repeats the same themes allow me to get the gist of it even when I don’t understand some words.
ゆる言語学ラジオ: two nerds talking about linguistics, with frequent tangents into computer science, developmental psychology, etc. I suspect even native speakers might have difficulty following some episodes with audio only. They publish a video version on Youtube with key words written out that allows you to half-read half-listen.
I find there’s generally a pretty big gap in difficulty between science podcasts and life-style podcasts. I have had better luck with Youtube channels filling this middle gap.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/xyoj5w/100_of_japanese_podcasts/