Comments on: How to Watch the News in Japanese /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-1000059100 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:07:29 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-1000059100 […] a (the?) cornerstone of the original 18-month AJATT success story and all its side stories (the news success…like, I pounded the news. And what I did was, watch the news once, record it to MiniDisc (this was a long time ago) and then […]

]]> By: T /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-1000042633 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:58:53 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-1000042633 HI
Thanks for all the tips on language learning.
Unfortunately, I cant seem to get the FNN news site to work consistently, does anyone know any other websites which play japanese news??
Ideally ones that have the script written below the video/voice recording.

Thanks a lot

]]> By: Falconpikachu /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-185410 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:05:43 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-185410 I think it is because the news in themselves are not an isolated chunk of the language, the vocab used in newspapers and TV news is the same found elsewhere. It is just that this is a “shortcut” to the vocab that is used primarily by the news.

]]> By: Herman /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-55641 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:16:40 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-55641 khatzumoto,

How do you explain as native speakers we understand what’s said on the news without previous exposure to it. I personally hate news programs, but it doesn’t mean i cannot understand them. Does it give the proves that as second language learners we’d eventually understand the news programs in our L2 even without being exposed to it, not to mention the quantity of the exposure? Looking forward to hearing what you think of this.

]]> By: Sybil /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-37287 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:48:47 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-37287 Hello,

First of all, thank you for this site. It is most helpful.
I would like to listen to the yomiuri podcasts but it seems that we need to be registered. As the site web is in Japanese (not my level…yet),do you know how to proceed?

Thanks a lot
Sybil

]]> By: キアオ /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-24399 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:47:02 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-24399 Hi All!

First I’d like to say that my friend who just started as a JET recently pointed me to this site and it has completely redefined the way I think about learning Japanese, especially after taking it for two years in college.

That being said, I currently have my immersion environment rollin’. I am doing the Heisig Kanji but also some sentences because of my previous experience. Anyways, here is my main concern: Accurate News Translations. I see the transcripts on the sites mentioned above; however, I want to make sure I get the grammar correct. Any tips?

Thanks!
ブランドン・キアオ

]]> By: マッカ /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-24149 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:35:48 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-24149 Sorry, just can’t stand spelling errors:
its > it’s benefited me……

]]> By: マッカ /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-24148 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:34:48 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-24148 One thing I’d have to recommend:
If you want to become fluent at reading the newspaper, then it’s best to combine sentences from FNN/TTS with news articles from newspaper websites like:
www.asahi.com
www.yomiuri.co.jp

The content of actual newspaper articles is far more expansive then news reports. I’ve made the effort to make half of my sentences from newspaper articles everyday, and its benefited me enormously in reading the newspaper.

]]> By: マッカ /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-24147 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:30:45 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-24147 I’ve been using this method for the past month and a half now, listening to the news 24-7 and inputting about 30 sentences every day. I can read the newspaper and understand the news on the first time about 80%. Freakin’ love the news.
I’m dropping all other Japanese focuses and am going absolutely ‘hard core’ at the news for the next 2 weeks so I can wrap it up and move on.
Of course, I’ll pick up a newspaper every now and then and mine some sentences I don’t understand, but the news is only one part of Japanese, and the vocab is endless.

]]> By: more on SRS and sentence mining « Language Fixation /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-23313 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:26:06 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-23313 […] I think that both massive exposure and SRS content are important to balance out somehow. SRS is a type of exposure, but not quite as good as hours of intensive audio and video content. But your SRS content is a focused tool that will help you quickly increase your vocabulary, which will let you get even more benefit from the hours of intensive audio and video. Therefore, i think these two strategies go well together, as advocated by Khatsumoto on his All Japanese All The Time site. For example, check out his article about how he learned to watch the news in japanese. […]

]]> By: Judith /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-21178 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:41:42 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-21178 Would you know a sight having a true video newscast in Japanese for ipod? I can only find audio podcasts. Thank you.

]]> By: Silas /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-20340 Sat, 23 May 2009 19:59:25 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-20340 i’m a beginner at this
planning to go to japan next year
basically i just listen to the news and mime even if i don’t understand the meanings yet?
listening to everything Japanese that i can and learning kanji
i already learnt the kanas
am i doing it right?

]]> By: Gaz /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-18851 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:24:20 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-18851 I am ready for the FNN news casts, but the only reason I want to use the site is so I can use these “write ups” that everyone says is on the “corresponding article” on the FNN website.

But for the life of me, i can not find these transcripts!!!

Where are they? So i can have written confirmation of what I am listening to?

Thanks,
Gaz

]]> By: Paul /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-17223 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:17:19 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-17223 Gonna start trying this now!

Lol… within 3 seconds of turning on the news I heard one of your keywords, ”北朝鮮”.

]]> By: Dorftrottel /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-15018 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:01:56 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-15018 About the sound recording thing: You can use the free tool Avidemux to rip the sound from videos (or even from just a portion of the video) and simultaneously convert it to mp3 or whatever your media player can handle. It runs on Linux, OS X and Windows.
fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

]]> By: Mentat /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-14347 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:57:37 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-14347 I’m in 8 month, with about 2500 sentences. I think it is the right time for me.

Hi Katz, In what timeframe did you started reading/listening the news?
These news posts are now pretty old, do you have any news about the news in the chinese project?

]]> By: Noah /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-9637 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:42:27 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-9637 Yes, I agree completely with Tyler. I have used Audacity for all my sound needs, including editing, and I love how well and simple it works.

Thank you Khatz for the great article!! I am really excited to try your method. How much of your blog do you recommend reading before starting hardcore Heisig Kanji learning? So far I have about 50 or so learned.

Also, thanks everyone for the news links because where I live we have only one public TV station that broadcasts Japanese Television, and thats only on Saturday nights! 🙁

]]> By: Tyler /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-9309 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:24:03 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-9309 @steffen (and anybody wanting to record streaming audio):

Unless I’m misunderstanding, you can do the same thing for free with Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) by recording with the Stereo Mix option. (on Windows, make sure it’s enabled for your sound card). The downside is it’s realtime so you have to listen to all of it while you’re recording all of it.

Btw thanks for such a great site Khatz! 😀

]]> By: Steffen /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-8382 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:38:36 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-8382 In case there’s anyone else wondering about software, I’ve found the perfect solution. The application is called SoundTap and can be found at www.nch.com.au/soundtap/index.html
It’s not freeware, but I don’t think 20 bucks is a lot to pay for an application you will use a lot. There’s probably some good freewares out there though, if anyone bothers to look

]]> By: khatzumoto /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese/#comment-8378 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:35:35 +0000 /how-to-watch-the-news-in-japanese#comment-8378 Actually, I just recorded it analog, in real time, to my minidisc player that was plugged into the headphone jack of my laptop…a little old school, but it worked.

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