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Hii!! I’ve really been enjoying Japan vlogs lately and have been looking to improve my Japanese studying (if you can call it that…I’ve been slacking) and I’m going to try the immersive method, as it’s unintentionally helped me before and sounded a lot like my learning style.

I was hoping people could recommend channels with Japanese audio (commentary) but English subtitles! I think it could help me out!! (starting w subtitles before moving to without!) Other recommendations or advice is welcome!!

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Random life hack if you ever end up buying books that are really smelly with that damp/mold smell and want to get rid of it stick it in a bag with some baking soda for 2-3 days, it really helps! All the used books I've bought recently were strong smelling and airing them out +stick them in a sealed bag with b.soda cut the smell down a lot.

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信号待ち

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歩く人

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A town on the Seto Inland Sea by minasのレトロ歩き

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If any of you Češi and Slováci are studying Japanese and feeling bad about your vocab, I have a degree in literature but I don’t know the word for nohavice

ID: a notebook with “nohavice - ズボンのそで(?)” handwritten on it. The Czech word translates to “leg of a trouser”, and the Japanese ones to “sleeve of a trouser (?)”.

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家の前で寝てるコ

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幸福

こうふく

happiness, joy, blessedness

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16.06.25-22.06.25

⏱️: 9h 35m

notes:

drinks with a friend and copious notes on Classical Japanese. i still find translating difficult but i think i’ve finally worked out a system that simplifies it for me.

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03.07.25

⏱️: 3h

started working on my Classical Japanese final and made some good progress!

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Japanese Language Reading Resources

I needed to put all my reading resources in one place lol

Tadoku - free books from beginner to advanced aimed at language learners. The books from level 0 - 4 contain furigana.

YomuJP - More free japanese graded reading material. N6 is the easiest and N1 is the hardest. Contains audio, furigana and pictures.

Jgrpg Sakura - Japanese graded reading material. You need to create an account first though

Watanoc - Web magazine aimed at language learners in easy japanese. N5-N3. Contains audio, pictures and you can hover over unknown words to reveal the meaning.

Soseki Product - This website is dedicated to the works of Natsume Sōseki and it's also aimed at language learners so there's furigana, audio and translation. These novels are from the 1900s so it might be a bit difficult but I think it's really fun

MeikaSensei - Blog posts aimed at beginners. There's beginner versions and intermediate versions of the same post. Contains furigana

Bunsuke - Contains excerpts from books with translations and vocabulary lists. Also has links to the books used. Made by a fellow language learner :)

Ehon - Picture books aimed for 0-6 year olds. Doesn't seem to contain kanji. Some books contain audio

Lingual ninja - This website is for learning hiragana/katakana/grammar/vocab/kanji but it also has a folktales section that contains audio, vocab lists and optional furigana. There's also youtube videos of each story available

yomou syosetu - Over a million free novels! I believe a lot of it is user-submitted works

Syosetsu - Similar to the above.

Bookwalker (jp) - You can read the first few volumes of manga for free here. There's also light novels and doujinshi

Aozora Bunko - digital library that contains a lot of out of copyright books

Note - User submitted posts about various topics

Easy NHK News - News in easy japanese. Contains furigana.

NHK News - The news. In Japanese

Apps

Pibo - Picture books aimed at children

Todaii - Aimed at language learners. News with furigana and pop up dictionary.

Satori Reader - Paid

Yomu Yomu - First 3 chapters are free on every story

If you have any more recommendations, tell me!

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予言

よげん

prediction, prophecy

ノストラダムスの予言には出てきます。

ノストラダムス の よげん には でてきます。

It appears in Nostradamus’ predictions.

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this is why if you have time to learn ONE thing before a trip to Japan, I always recommend people learn katakana

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門前仲町｜石島橋２

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東京｜丸の内｜昼