日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4

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I've been learning how to read Japanese on and off for about a year, and I can do a decent job if it's pretty basic grammar or if I have a dictionary on me, but it just hit me a couple days ago that I have absolutely no listening comprehension.

Does anybody have a good way to work on this?  Should I just listen to a lot of Japanese audio and it will start to "come to me" after a while?  If the sentence is very long at all, I can either focus on the beginning and miss the verb, or focus on the verb and miss what the rest of the sentence is about.

Thanks in advance.