Ughhh, I got so busy with work that I really let things slide the past two weeks. Thankfully I just finished this project so it should be back to normal this week. Annoying.

On the listening front, I've decided to abandon podcasts for active, challenging learning. What happened was I went back to an intermediate video on Comprehensible Japanese and after the listening gains I've made the past month I realized how much less effort this was with the words here and there that I didn't know. I realized partway through the video that it's the children's show approach--she's showing the listener exactly what she's talking about. For building up my audio automaticity, I'm just going to do this kind of video from now on. Of course, I need to find hours and hours of it...

I just wish I'd gone the video direction in the fall. I think I would have stuck with it better.