For Learners of Japanese

Just thought I would make a post about this... because I spent MONTHS looking for this.

I'm learning Japanese and one of my favorite resources has got to be Let's Plays. Basically, a player gives commentary on the game they're playing and uploads the video to NicoNico or Youtube. Simple, right? But it took me forever to find them in Japanese because, unlike say Finnish or Swedish (and you can find LPs in those languages!), they go by a different name: 実況プレイ (Jikkyou Purei).

Simply put that into your searchbar and you can find TONS of listening material. Of course, you have to be at a level where the material will be useful, and you have to take everything you hear with a grain of salt. You're not going to learn Japanese from Let's Plays anymore than you are with solid anime, so don't fool yourself into thinking this is an easy way out of studying. However, it is a good way of incubating vocabulary words!

It's passive learning, but it's good learning, and it'll drain a lot of your free time. So be sure to cram in those vocabulary words before pressing play!