Study it specifically or increase it
I also feel your pain! It is almost upsetting how far behind my listening comprehension is to my reading, it feels like I must be doing something wrong. Even when I know most of the words in a sentence, sometimes I just sit there dumbfounded haha.
Iām also not at a high enough level yet for watching television shows or most non-graded content to be useful (I mean, I do it anyway, and I sometimes get some fun vocab like éØ and ę¬å½ from Mob Psycho) but even when I should be able to understand sentences, I just ā¦canāt seem to get it.
Hopefully we can both figure it out (going to use all of the resources posted in this thread!) Thanks for posting this, I feel less weird. All of my friends are much [MUCH] better at listening than reading.
Iām in the same low-level comprehension boat as well. I know that my problem is that I just need to do it more!
Itās already been mentioned, but listening/watching something Iām already familiar has personally helped me a lot. When I was starting to branch out into native content when studying German, I watched Letās Plays for games that I had played before. Watching dubbed movies/shows I had already watched in English works, too.
My favourite listening resource is a youtube channel called ācomprehensible japaneseā. She has loads of videos around 5-10 minutes long with illustrated stories about Japanese culture. Itās all divided from complete beginner to intermediate level and her voice is super nice to listen to. Always put a beginner video on while I eat my lunch at work.
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