Hello. This is Yuko Sensei.
I have launched the Listening Course.
Now the listening course is open for you to sign up.
From today until Saturday, August 8th, you can sign up for $39 instead of $69.
This is an early-signup discount just for one week.
This course is not going to be $39 in the future, so please do not miss it.
You can find the sign-up link in the description box below.
The link takes you to the sign-up page that looks like this.
Click the green button.
And it will take you to the payment page.
For those people who missed the video that I uploaded last week, I'm going to show you
the inside of the course in this video again so that you can decide if this course is right
for you or not.
So, this is how inside of the course looks on my computer.
It looks a little bit different on your phone or iPad, ok?
Each lesson has 5 sections like this.
First, you download the worksheets for the lesson.
Click the file name right below the worksheet, and you can download it.
The worksheets include the vocabulary list and exercises for the entire lesson.
Please know that all the materials are written in Japanese letters only and not in Romaji.
I put readings for all the Kanji parts, so you don't have to know Kanji but you have
to know Hiragana and Katakana to learn from this course.
In the next section, you can listen to the audio files.
Choose the speed, slow or natural, depending on your level.
In this section, I want you to try the first
two exercises, STEP 1 and 2, without looking at the vocabulary list yet and see how much
you can answer the questions.
It's ok that you don't understand everything.
That's not the point.
The point here is to train yourself to capture the general idea of the content with the limited
information you received by listening.
It's also important to become curious about the parts you didn't catch so that,
later on when you find out all the answers, those parts stick to your memory.
After you listened to the audio a few times, now proceed to the next section to check the
vocabulary.
See which words you couldn't catch and take notes of those words or mark them on the worksheet.
The audio files for vocabulary are also downloadable.
After you know the vocabulary, listen to the main audio again.
Do you understand the content better now?
In the next section, you try a fill-in-the-blank exercise.
Here you try to catch specific words or phrases by listening to the main audio again.
Now that you know the content, can you catch the parts missing in the text?
You can choose the Hiragana version or Kanji version depending on your writing skills.
This is going to be a good practice to improve your spelling too.
And the final section gives you the answer sheet and the script for the main audio.
Check your answers and see where you made mistakes.
You can print out the answer sheet or just download it on to your device to use it.
In this section, I also added a video for you to listen to the audio again with the
written text like this.
Below the video, you will find grammar notes for the major grammar used in the lesson.
I hope this video gave you a good idea as to how you can use this course to improve
your Japanese listening comprehension.
From now on, this course is going to be always available at my Japanese online school,
Smile Nihongo Academy.
But if you want to get the course at the lowest fee,
please sign up by the end of August 8th, 2020.
I hope this course is going to be a good addition to your Japanese learning resources.
See you inside the course!