Free resource
Cozy Mandarin (YouTube)
Unrated听力 Listening
My notes
Relaxed-format content, useful for comfortable passive listening without the pressure of test-prep materials.
Cozy Mandarin's deliberately relaxed pace made it a good option for days when I wanted productive study without the pressure of timed exercises or grammar analysis. Passive listening at this level still generates vocabulary exposure even if the retention is lower than active study. I treated it as a maintenance activity rather than a core study method — something to put on when the brain needed a lower-intensity mode but I still wanted to be in the language.