/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>35875392
I can read Japanese newspapers and other written things fairly easily, and I took Japanese for a year while I was a graduate student too, but listening is honestly still the hardest part for me. Living in Japan and making sure you're immersed and not in some gaijin bubble is the best and easiest way to develop listening and talking skills. But if you aren't able to do that, you have to just do a lot of purposeful (important!) listening studying and practice, otherwise you'll still struggle a lot. You can pick up on visual cues on TV shows and pick up on a few words that you recognize to understand the context of things, but being able to recognize unknown vocabulary is difficult because there are lots of homophones in the language.