{"id":36610,"date":"2014-10-22T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36610"},"modified":"2014-10-22T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:34:37","slug":"%e3%80%90rocketnews24%e3%80%91learn-japanese-from-youtube-amp-up-your-listening-skills-with-this-four-step-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/22\/%e3%80%90rocketnews24%e3%80%91learn-japanese-from-youtube-amp-up-your-listening-skills-with-this-four-step-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010RocketNews24\u3011Learn Japanese from YouTube: Amp up your listening skills with this four-step guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by\u00a0Michelle Lynn Dinh<\/a>\u00a0(Shimane<\/a>-ken,\u00a0Chibu-mura,\u00a0<\/strong>2010\u201313),<\/strong>\u00a0editor and writer for\u00a0RocketNews24<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The following article was written by\u00a0<\/span>Fran Wrigley<\/a>, writer and translator for\u00a0<\/span>RocketNews24<\/a>,\u00a0a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It used to be that if you were studying a foreign language in your own country, the only listening practice that was easily available to you was hearing your teacher or classmates speak, or listening to the CD that came with your\u00a0textbook. The first Japanese textbook I ever bought actually came with a cassette tape, which was particularly irritating as it was 2006 and I didn\u2019t even own a Walkman any more.<\/p>\n

Then someone invented a website that allowed users to upload short videos for all the world to see. Fast-forward nine\u00a0years and\u00a0YouTube<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the biggest sites on the planet, making it a veritable treasure trove of\u00a0free online spoken content<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So whether you\u2019re after language lessons, YouTubers who vlog in Japanese, or just want to try watching your\u00a0cat videos<\/a>\u00a0in a foreign language, online videos could\u00a0be your new secret weapon.\u00a0The trick is just knowing where to look.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Continue to our four-step guide here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by\u00a0Michelle Lynn Dinh\u00a0(Shimane-ken,\u00a0Chibu-mura,\u00a02010\u201313),\u00a0editor and writer for\u00a0RocketNews24.\u00a0The following article was written by\u00a0Fran Wrigley, writer and translator for\u00a0RocketNews24,\u00a0a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences. It used to be that if you were studying a foreign language in your own country, the only listening practice that was easily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[525,1315,1116,1120],"class_list":["post-36610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-writers","tag-japanese","tag-language-study-2","tag-rocketnews24","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t