Category Archives: SSE Ikoma

Listening Tactics II

Learn the Vocabulary
It may seem obvious, but learning vocabulary is very important.  Words that we don’t know do not sound like words; they sound like noise.  Of course, you can learn a new word by hearing it, if it is the only one that is new for you.  But you still probably need to hear [...]

Listening Tactics

When I started to learn Japanese I wanted to listen to anything and everything. This was good, but it was just too difficult. I became frustrated.
Then, I wanted to learn by listening to small selections of Japanese again and again and again. This was also good, but natural conversation is not like [...]