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.