#polyglotimmersion

[meimae]

Hi! Your posts have been really motivating me to forge on with my own immersion (I'm currently watching 今際の国のアリス for the third time to mine vocabulary haha), it's great to see immersion learning posts here on Tumblr! I was wondering how much emphasis you put on passive listening (e.g. while doing mindless tasks). I always find myself completely zoning it out but I'm trying hard to get more into it. What are your thoughts?

Hello fellow immersion learner! I also rewatch mined shows frequently. Currently watching イタズラなKiss for the third time and it's so fun, because it's very comprehensible now.

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TL;DR: Reassess your schedule and turn all possible passive time into active; build new habits: wake up early and immerse; listen to music instead (in the beginning) and get motivated; listen to compressed audio of mined shows after building a good foundation of vocabulary; listen to previously mined audiobooks; profit.

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When I first started out, I would put just about anything in the background as passive listening and not understand most of it. I even counted anything I watched with Japanese subs on as passive, because it didn't feel like 100% listening. Passive is definitely a stretch as a beginner since you just miss out on a lot.

What I did was to reassess my schedule: is the time I'm using for passive convertible into active listening?

I immediately dropped all Japanese subs after that and tried my best to make time for more active. This was very early on, maybe a month in, so I was watching everything I had watched before without subs so it was tolerable. This was also where I started waking up at 5am just so I can have an extra 1 or 2 hours of quiet time for myself where I could just do either active listening or reading and maybe Anki. It was great, because I would get up and know that I had already secured at least an hour of active immersion for the day, so if I feel too tired in the evening it doesn't bother me that I didn't immerse as much throughout the day.

Almost all my remaining passive time then turned into listening to Japanese music (something I don't mine from). It feels great to be just chilling with some music and suddenly hearing words and sometimes whole phrases that you can understand. It really turned into motivation time instead.

After a long while, I started using compressed audio from the shows I watched and mined from, and this is where it really started clicking. I feel like passive listening starts turning into active listening once you acquire a larger vocabulary. I have a variety of shows that I listen to as "passive", but at this point, it's impossible to even ignore it, because even when I'm distracted, at the very least I can still hear the words I know clearly.

If you saw, my latest Immersion Overview, I mentioned that I was listening to the 君の名は audiobook. It is something that I have never read before, but I did watch and mine almost every word in the movie in the beginning. I technically was listening to it while doing mindless tasks - passive - but I could follow it really well, and even hear descriptive words that would be typically used in books (eg. 頷く/肯く, nodding), so I actually categorized it as active on my tracker.

That's about all I'm doing right now with regards to passive. Hope this helps you out!

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[adito-lang]

Languages I...

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Languages I wish I could go back to studying: Hindi, Mandarin

Languages I never ended up studying but would if I was a career polyglot getting paid to just exist: Icelandic, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, isiXhosa, Uyghur, Spanish, American Sign Language, German Sign Language, Finnish

Languages I am studying/have been studying: Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch

Languages I can’t touch for [insert reason]: French

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