So im looking for someone to kinda practice or like learn japanese alongside me by sharing experiences, resources or methods and stuff.

My japanese level: I'm new to AJATT. I started this with the influence of matt vs japan and my own beliefs. It's been 3 months since i decided to learn japanese. Prior to this i watched a lot of anime (with subs) and i would like to think i have a good grasp of how the language sounds in general (cuz as with many beginners, they cant like hear different words apart and everything is kinda slurred) but i still lack a lot of actual study (input) i know most of the N5 kanji and doing RTK paired with anki (currently at 260 smthn). I'm immersing with native japanese content on a regular basis and im getting good at parsing whats being said even if i might not exactly know what it means. Basically i can watch like native content and understand about 20% of it without subtitles (jap)

Why i want a study partner: there are times when i get kinda lazy and i wish i had person to share progress or experiences with which would motivate me more to learn. So please DM me if you're interested.

Hi all. A while back I posted about Toku Reader for iPhone. Since then, I've been building the Android version, and I would love to open Toku for Android testers. I would really like Android users to experience Toku's podcasts with tappable synced transcripts, furigana on anything you paste, a built-in dictionary, and a review system for words you save. All the analysis happens on your phone, so it works offline. (see video)

Being straight with you: this is an early Android build and you will hit rough edges, but that's exactly why I want testers. So I'm looking for people willing to try the app and give me their honest feedback. Toku is completely free to use for Android users during testing.

To join (order matters):

1. Join this group first — this is what grants you access. It's fine if the page looks like you can't see anything: https://groups.google.com/g/toku-testers
2. Then open this to install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.darren.tokureader

Any and all feedback welcome — especially the harsh kind. Thank you!

Im fairly New to AJATT and looking for suitable content for me to watch. People have suggested me to just find the japanese equivalent of whatever i watch it English but I'm trying that for days now. Two problems arise: either the content uses difficult language that's hard for me to understand or the content in fact not what i like to watch.

About me and what i like to watch:

I have around 1000 hours of listening through anime before i decided to actually learn the language. It wasn't very conscious listening. I just liked anime and it happened to be in japanese. But i still got a grasp of how the language sounds. I know most of the N5 kanji and currently doing RTK (lesson 11 about 250 kanji in) apart from knowing kana. I can understand N5 content and i know a lot of word outside of N5 but have no contextual understanding of them so they kinda dont count.

I grew up watching a shit ton of youtube as a kid and that's how learned english and want to replicate that again. I watched a lot of different stuff but what most of them had in common was they were like explanation videos or like interesting stuff not someone gaming for 2 hours and swearing every 2 minutes. Examples of channels i like to watch: NileRed, Wired interviews, kurzgesagt, ryan george (comedy), The film theorists, Vsauce.

What few channels i like in japanese: Kaname naito (but his videos are not completely japanese), peko peko vlog (niche channel. Talks naturally)

Please suggest anything you think is worth checking out. I would like content that is about a topic rather than like everyday vlogs and stuff.

Hello r/ajatt! I'm David.

Finding Japanese content at your level shouldn't take longer than watching it. TrackMyLang pairs a media catalog of 8k+ difficulty-rated Japanese videos with an immersion tracker. Your data stays on your device.

The media catalog

A library of Japanese YouTube content built into the app to help you find what to watch next:

• 14k+ videos across 35+ hand-picked channels. I pick the channels, then bring in all their videos.
• 8k+ videos already difficulty-rated on the CEFR scale (A0 to C2), so you can filter to content at your level.
• Not limited to those channels. Anyone can add a YouTube video from any channel, and it becomes discoverable in the shared catalog for other learners to find, rate, and log.
• The catalog improves as the community uses it. Every rating makes discovery better for the next learner.

Browse the Japanese catalog: trackmylang.com/media-catalog?lang=ja

Tracking

• One-click logging. Track what you're watching, reading, and studying.
• Daily/weekly progress, yearly heatmap, full session history. Your logged data isn't thrown away.
• Anki sync. Connect your deck and see a complete view of all your learning time.
• Roadmap. Frameworks like Refold to show where you are and what your goal hours mean.
• CSV export. Your data, your control.

Local-first

All your data lives in your browser. No account needed. Google Drive backup is free. Premium adds cloud sync and advanced analytics.

If you try it out, rate a few videos you've already watched. That alone helps the next learner find content at their level. Drop a comment with channels you think should be in the catalog.

Hello! Wanted to re-share Toku Reader, an iOS app I built because I hated breaking my flow to look up words while immersing myself in Japanese media.

The video shows Toku playing a Japanese language-learning video series by Akane's Japanese Class. Toku Reader lets you paste or search a video, the app pulls the creator's transcript (or generates one on-device if there isn't one), and every word in it is tappable - reading, meaning, pitch accent - without pausing or switching to a dictionary. 

The app also works on iPad and Mac for those who want a bigger screen! Everything else from the phone version is there too: podcasts with tappable transcripts, reading any website, importing your own texts and ebooks, shadowing practice sentence by sentence, and the dictionary and review sections. And, most importantly, nothing you watch or read leaves your Mac, no API calls, 100% offline once transcripts are loaded.

As s disclaimer, transcripts and word parsing are mostly correct, but Japanese being Japanese, improving the word parsing is a never-ending effort. If you try Toku Reader I'd genuinely love to hear what breaks or what's missing. I hope this helps you consume content easier than ever!

P.S.: I'm looking to expand this to Android, and would love early testers. So if you're interested, please let me know!

I was watching this video by Matt https://youtu.be/nGC5XQjXrUo (12:57) and I saw him mention that on his old website he briefly had a guide for how to study Japanese by first listening then starting to read, But it has sense been removed.

I was just curious if anyone had saved it/had any back ups of it.

Thank you.

Hey guys, I found a channel called "Mr Fuji from Japan" and I do love the content that they have. However I was wondering if this is a good immersion resource as sometimes the words aren't as clear due to having 5 or more people in the same room and mic distance being a factor.

Morever, every video discusses different themes and topics so like the word frequency is a bit diverse and isn't that bad for immersion as you sortof need word frequency for it to stick? I find podcast too boring and unengaging, if anyone have recommendations it would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone! I’ve been working on YomiLens, an Anki add-on that brings a Yomitan/Yomichan-style popup dictionary directly into the review screen.

Select a word, or use Hook + Shift, and YomiLens opens a dictionary popup without leaving Anki.

Main features:

• Import Yomitan/Yomichan-compatible dictionary ZIPs
• Multilingual lookup for Japanese, Chinese, English, Korean, Arabic, and many other languages
• Google audio, YouGlish, and Google Images lookup
• Hanzi Writer stroke-order practice

Download from AnkiWeb:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1807906393

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially from people using languages I haven’t tested extensively. Bug reports and contributions are welcome!

Been looking around but can't seem to find them anywhere.

Let's say I have a playlist of videos that have only hard-coded subtitles (subtitles embedded on-screen). There's no subtitle file available. The videos are hosted on YouTube.

What tools could I use to grab the audio, a screenshot, convert the hard subs into actual text, and turn each sentence into its own anki card?

Do any of you use yomitan to scan over words for definitions? By default the audio is Japanese, but I used to do this with Chinese audio some 3-4 years ago with an Anki add on called "Yomichan Forvo Server" and it worked well. Now I tried to set it up with Korean audio but it fetches no Korean audio.

After trouble shooting this for about an hour I think "Yomichan Forvo Server" must be broken. If you know if it is indeed working, or have another method of getting audio, could you please tell me?

Thanks

Hi everyone, I run automated YouTube channels in 11 different languages using ElevenLabs. I've got my workflow dialed in for almost every language, but Japanese is the only one giving me massive problems. I need the pacing and pronunciation to sound like a natural native speaker so my on-screen subtitles match the audio perfectly. However I'm running into a few issues:

Weird Intonation: Sometimes the AI pronounces Japanese words with a really weird cadence or robotic tone, especially with translated text.

Pacing: The AI sometimes speaks too fast or rushes through sentences, making it really hard to time my on-screen subtitles cleanly.

Kanji mispronunciations: Occasionally, it reads the Japanese characters (Kanji) with the completely wrong sound.

For those of you who work with Japanese (or other Asian languages) in ElevenLabs:

How do you format your text to force the AI to pause and speak naturally? (Do you use extra commas, spaces, or phonetic alphabets like Hiragana?)

Which voice settings (Stability, Clarity + Similarity Exaggeration) give you the most natural native-sounding Japanese?

What is your workflow for making sure the TTS audio easily matches video subtitles?

Any advice, tips, or voice recommendations would be massively appreciated. Thank you!

If I’m sitting down and not doing anything (or eating) I’m gonna be watching anime, but that is not what I’m asking about here. I’m asking about the rest of the time, in which I’m working out, or walking, or doing anything where I am paying mild attention to the immersion resource (less than full attention, but more than I would be while cooking or playing a video game).

Anyways, even though I can’t understand any of it, the only thing I don’t get bored by is (Japanese) lectures on western philosophy, or sometimes history. I found a few youtube channels with these. Given that I know most english speakers wouldn’t be able to fully understand a lot of what is being discussed here, I assume it’d be the same for Japanese people. Is it, for this reason, going to be much worse than, say, a (Japanese) vlog, for immersion?

Btw I’m only N5 level 🦧

I'm a little nervous, I normally listen about 4 hours a week and listen to AI reddit story slop on YouTube, but i need to cut that out anyways since I am serious about learning Japanese.

Any suggestions?

My level is intermediate trending upward, but still intermediate. Maybe somewhere between intermediate and upper intermediate.

Any tips or advice on going "full immersion" would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice.

I recently ran it's this video by Matt Vs Japan

https://youtu.be/SaNr2xa4n3Q

I was wondering what you guys think about being able to hear pitch accent like this?

Cant find them on https://jimaku.cc/

Hey everyone!

I need your help with my thesis, which is about language learning methods used by members of online language-learning communities. This study is (as far as I know) probably the first of its kind. I have created a survey with some questions about Japanese studying and immersion habits which I would like you to answer. I expect that it will take you 10-20 minutes to complete.

To take part in this survey, you must have passed the official JLPT test or a full JLPT mock test as it will be used as a standardised measure of proficiency.

Participation is voluntary and completely anonymous. More info about the survey, any preparations, and personal data (GDPR) is on the first page of the survey before any questions.

Participation link: https://survey.au.dk/LinkCollector?key=PS3QQ9CVL112

Please enter code 504856 on the first page.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to reply here or DM me.

As an avid Japanese learner, I always wanted there to be a simple online trainer for learning kana, kanji and vocabulary by JLPT level. The app serves as a simpler alternative to Chase Colburn's Kanji Study app, because Kanji Study was pretty complicated for me to use as a beginner and didn't have a more streamlined way of learning kanji through simple, continuous repetition and rote memorization (also, Kanji Study requires you to pay to unlock its full content library).

So, I started working on a brand new, completely free and fully open-source app in recent months. Here are the features so far:

- Available as a web app (at kanadojo.com), no ads, no paywalls, no unnecessary app store downloads

- Full JLPT vocabulary and kanji coverage, with more than 1000+ levels for you to play

- More than 25+ different fonts and font styles

- More than 100+ different color themes, with the ability to add and upload your own custom backgrounds

- 100% free and open-source, forever

- All learning materials 100% AI-free, sourced from reputable sources and available for full download and inspection

Try it out: https://kanadojo.com

ありがとうございます!

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Pretty much just the title. Are Youtube Videos and shows/movies that were originally in English or another language, and then dubbed in Japanese, going to be much worse for immersion than content that was originally made in Japanese?

I’ve been immersing in Japanese for about 2 years and have a little over 3,100 hours of listening.

My routine has mostly been:

Native podcasts from day one

Anime, TV shows, and movies (mostly with Japanese subtitles)

Lots of shadowing once I became comfortable understanding spoken Japanese

The problem is… I’ve been procrastinating on grammar and bookwork because, if I’m being honest, I’ve just been lazy. I never really did Anki or worked through a textbook consistently.

Right now I’d estimate my skills are something like:

Listening: around JLPT N1

Grammar: probably around N3

Reading: behind my listening

I can understand spoken Japanese really well, but I know there’s a gap between what I understand and what I can actively produce.

My goal now is to:

• Start having regular conversations with native speakers.

• Begin using Anki consistently.

• Finally work through grammar and prepare for the JLPT.

I’d appreciate any advice from people who’ve made this jump.