Reading (comprehensible input) is easy – listening is TRASH

I swear I can read fairly low level stuff, very beginner level material easy sentence structure easy verbs just basic material.. all fine

Same material, but spoken?

Good lord Japanese goes from words to just someone throwing mora at me just consonant + vowel clusters

A sensible sentence written ends up sounds like “ka ta te ke ta tai te ke ko mi ge ra te ka na ka ke ke te ta ki shi te shi zu chi” or something

Take a paragraph say I have 90% comprehension that same paragraph read by a Japanese speaker with no subtitles becomes just syllable mush in my brain

Is the solution really “just immerse bro”? Any advice with listening comprehension just feeling so unbelievably terrible?

by Logan_922

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