THATS RIGHT, THIS TIME, ITS NOT REALLY A MINI LESSON (mmm maybe but), BUT A TEST TO SEE HOW YOUR LISTENING COMPREHENSION IS!

But in my honest opinion, you should be happy that I’m doing this because if theres a resource that I could ask for free or had more money to get, it would be listening comprehension question stuff. Too many times where I misheard Japanese from Japanese people and mistook their words for something else or misread things and this lead to some strained connections with some people. This is where misunderstanding occurs and relationships can possibly be ruined.　To avoid this, let’s practice listening!

The Introduction
“Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them. Stretch out with your feelings!” – Obi Wan Kenobi

So what I will be using today is the recently released episode of the radio show, 『AKB48今夜は帰らない』 on June 4th, 2012. Radio show means pure unadulterated audio. With that said, sorry to everyone that it has to be AKB48 (again) if you don’t like AKB48. Unfortunately, my criteria for choosing this was that it had to be something which I can, at minimum, understand 85% of what is being said. Obviously, if I can’t understand myself, then it wouldn’t be good learning material. Luckily, there is not much that you need to know about AKB48 for this specific episode which is also why I chose it and the music breaks are also edited out

The Preparation

The hosts for today’s episode is:

Annin aka Iriyama Anna (AKB48, Team 4)
Maria/Mari aka Abe Maria (AKB48, Team 4)
Tano-chan aka Tano Yuka (AKB48, Team 4←　’as of March 24,2012′)

Questions will be either in English or Japanese, depending on how I feel at the time of the question lol and you may either answer in English or Japanese. I will not correct the grammar of your answers should it be Japanese.

Radio show
↓↓
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9piahfk0QM&feature=plcp
↑↑
Radio show

By the way, if you can understand nearly everything in this radio show (excluding possible AKB references), I think you can confidently claim yourself to be at the higher end of N4 to N3 as I think its representative of a conversation that isn’t too specific on any topics like math, science, politics. Just 日常会話 style if you get what I mean.

さて、始めましょう！

————————————————————————————————————————-
※Questions will be based on 3:30 -19:01

1. 最初から最後まで、メンバーたちはどんな企画をしますか？

2. Annin, Maria, and Tano are actually not the regular hosts of 「AKB48今夜は帰らない」。 Out of the three, which member(s) can NOT seemingly perform a “moe voice” better than the actual regulars?

3. What is the successive order in which the 3 answer the listener’s scenarios?

4. In which prefecture does the asker of the first scenario come from?

5. What is the reason for Tano-chan’s answer for the first scenario? What is the general reaction of Annin and Maria?

6. What is the second scenario? What is Maria’s reaction to it?

7. 日本語であんにんの答えを書いてください。みんなさん、萌えましたか？私が萌えました。

8. Before the third question, the members points are counted up. How many points does each member have?

9. Where does the asker of the 3rd question live? What is his/her scenario?

10. Where does the asker of the 4th question live and what is his/her scenario?

11. What does Maria think of Tano-chan’s answer to the 4th scenario?

12. What are the member’s final results?

13. あんにんがもらったご褒美は何でしたか？

14. What will happen to the listeners upon hearing the members talk about Annin’s prize?

BONUS QUESTION FOR MARK: What is the name of Yui’s mother?

————————————————————————————————————————-

Aftermath
How was it? Was it incredibly easy or hard? Give me feedback or whatever that I probably won’t end up using to improve the next “mini lesson”….whenever that will be. Do you even like this sort of listening comprehension thing? Like you know, does it turn you on? Anyway, whether you did a bad job or not, thank you for attempting and お疲れ様です。