Sample Exercises:

Familiarizing:

1. Listen to Natural Audio and see how much you understand
2. Try reading the text without translation or furigana
3. Turn on furigana and translation and go through the text to fully understand it. Use the provided vocabulary, notes, or a pop-up dictionary plugin for browser (for example, 10ten)

Listening and Writing:

1. Listen to a part of the dialogue and write down what you hear (with or without kanji)
2. If you don't understand something, go back and listen again
3. You can adjust the difficulty by switching audio: slow Enunciated → normal Enunciated → slowed Natural → normal Natural

Accent Training:

1. Switch to kana mode with accents on
2. Listen and repeat, paying attention to pitch accent
3. Repeat many times until it starts to feel natural
4. Turn the accents off
5. Read the phrase aloud
6. Check yourself by listening to the audio
7. Check again by looking at the accents in the text (“on hover only” function will come handy here)

Listening and Writing (Accent):

(Writing may feel unnecessary, but it helps preventing your brain from getting lazy or tricking you into thinking, “yeah yeah, I got it, let’s move on,” when you actually haven’t “got it” yet.)

1. Listen to the audio
2. Write down what you hear and mark the accent
3. Repeat the phrase multiple times until you are confident
4. Check if you got it right

Shadowing:

(The point of shadowing is to learn the sounds, rhythm, tone, and the vibe of the language. Whether you understand the meaning or not is not important. Focus on the sound, not the meaning.)

1. Familiarize yourself with the dialogue by listening to it at least once. (You can do this after “Familiarizing”)
2. Listen to the audio and speak along with it in real time, with a slight delay (like a shadow following a moving object)
3. Repeat it multiple times until it feels natural to speak the dialogue

Want to listen to the dialogues while commuting or driving? Here are mp3 files you can download to your phone.

All Dialogues (Full Audio):