Hello. This is Yuko Sensei.
Thank you for always watching my lessons.
Today, I have an announcement about a new course.
I'm going to release a new course on Saturday, August 1st, 2020.
It's a listening course to train your listening comprehension of Japanese.
And today, I want to show you the inside of the new course.
First of all, do you know why understanding spoken Japanese is so difficult for you?
It happened to me too when I was learning English.
I knew all the grammar but when I tried to listen to spoken English, I had a hard time
to catch and understand what's being said.
That's because our brain doesn't have the networks to process those foreign sounds yet.
To build those networks, it needs lots of sound data input.
You know, when you listen to the same song over and over again, gradually you remember
the entire melody and the lyrics, right?
That's why repetition is the key when it comes to listening or to develop any new skills,
in fact.
And that's what you are going to get from this course.
The course gives you 3 essentials.
1.
Audio that you can listen over and over again.
Each lesson gives you the audio file, both in slow and natural speed, that you can download
and listen repeatedly.
I also prepared the audio files for the vocabulary list in each lesson.
2. Script for the audio content.
Each lesson provides you the worksheets with the written script of the main audio and vocabulary
list.
So, you can check and fully understand the content of the audio with the written text
and English translation.
3. Exercises.
I prepared exercises for you to test how much you can catch by just listening without the
script and after you know the content, how precisely you can catch specific words in
the audio.
In this video, I'm going to show you the inside of the listening course so that you know exactly how
you learn from this course.
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 that 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.
Join the Japanese Listening course and improve your listening comprehension.
I'm going to publish this course on August 1st, 2020, and you can sign up with a discount
during the first one week.
Find the signup link in the description box below.
You can also download the lesson list for the course below this video.
If you are already a student in my online Japanese school, Smile Nihongo Academy,
I'm going to send you the sign-up link by email on August 1st, so please look forward to it.
If you don't see the email in the inbox, be sure to check your spam folder too.
I hope this listening course is going to be a good addition to your Japanese learning resources.
See you inside the listening course!