Practice speaking Japanese with real YouTube videos, graded line by line

momentmaker 92 points 33 comments November 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (9 comments)

psb

this but for German please

usrnm

Replace YouTube with anime and I'm interested

1317

well you have a reasonable enough sales pitch on the homepage but I don't see what youtube videos have to do with it and I put a video in to try and apparently there's a 26 minute wait

ranger_danger

I just want an easy-to-use offline AI chatbot that I can converse with in Japanese to practice with at native speed. Does this not exist yet?

comrade1234

My cousin speaks fluent Japanese. He had another western acquaintance living in Japan that was a stay-at-home dad who spent his days with Japanese mothers. It seems that women speak differently enough from men where the guy was learning female speaking (accent? Structure? I have no idea) and so my cousin had to talk to him privately and tell him he speaks like a woman...

aizk

Is pitch accent included / noted? That can make a big difference.

retinaros

i do not understand how this works

101rakibulhasan

Just watch anime bro

jbm

This is great! I hope you add some N1 level stuff. Even native level Youtube videos often stick with certain simple grammatical patterns (obviously since most of N1 is literary). Just having a curated list of more complex conversations on Youtube by itself is worthwhile to people like me.

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