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Is there any apps similar to NHK easy news to practice listening?

I have been using NHK easy news to practice reading. It’s exactly what I need! I wonder if there’s anything similar for listening? Thanks!

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  4. The OTO Navi app from Japan Times has the Genki graded readers audio available for free. Just search for Genki Reader.

  7. Wikipedia. Overall it’s definitely not the easiest read but usually the first few sentences in any given article are going to be quite easy to understand because you already have some expectation for what they’re supposed to be saying.

    The other major reason I recommend Wikipedia is that you get to have the opportunity to click links for concepts referenced in the first few sentences in the articles you read. This is really good for language learning because the way wikipedia links are accessible from interconnected webs of related concepts is basically the exact way in which you want your brain to be wiring the related concepts it remembers.

    There’s also just the right amount of repetition and new content. The start of new articles will use phrasing you’re already familiar with from older articles (i.e, any time you look up an animal on wikipedia you’ll refresh your memory on how animal species are classified, 界->門->亜門->綱).

    As you keep reading any time you run into a word you forget, if that word has an associated article you’ll have a much easier time recalling it because forgetting an entire session you’ve spent learning about one concept is much harder than forgetting having looked up a word in the dictionary. In this way it becomes much easier to retain concepts because the memories associated in engaging with them are much stronger.

    Remember, the less experienced you are with the language the more you want to prioritize reading very little content in a lot of articles (as opposed to reading a few articles in depth). BFS > DFS.

    Just avoid reading about history or anything like that… that’s hell.

  8. I believe NHK and similar offer narrated articles and simple radio options also

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