The Nikkei podcasts （聞く日経）come in two flavors, a digest version of around 10 minutes, and a full version of close to 30 minutes. I am focusing here on the full version. The purpose is to break down the program structure and think about practical usage of the segments for training.
A standard podcast is split into the following sections. I skip the pretty long advertisements popping up in between.
News headlines, Top page news, Corporate new, Short corporate news, News from the 日経産業, Political news, International news, Products news, Today's agenda
News headlinesShort vocabulary rich sentences with verbal endings. A good way to train on vocabulary and short sentence retention with or without notes and interpretation.
Top page news
The newscaster read a summary of the major articles printed on the top page. If you own the Nikkei du jour, you can try and find as fast as possible the actual chunks of the article the newscaster is reading. Not an easy task but good to train browsing a printed document in urgency.
Corporate news
Picked from the Corporate news page but not only.
News from the 日経産業
Headlines from the top page of this other Nikkei daily.
Political news
International news
Product news
A chatty advertisement like dialogue based on some extract of the New product page.
Today's agenda
The vocabulary over this podcast is dense and intense and ask for a separate vocabulary note-taking strategy. There is enough material to work a few hours a day on this podcast alone.
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