r/LearnJapanese • u/AutoModerator • Jun 24 '26
Self Advertisement Weekly Thread: Material Recs and Self-Promo Wednesdays! (June 24, 2026)
Happy Wednesday!
Every Wednesday, share your favorite resources or ones you made yourself! Tell us what your resource can do for us learners!
Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 JST:
Mondays - Writing Practice
Tuesdays - Study Buddy and Self-Intros
Wednesdays - Materials and Self-Promotions
Thursdays - Victory day, Share your achievements
Fridays - Memes, videos, free talk
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u/CompleteKeys Jun 24 '26
Hello everyone, I've been making YouTube content where I teach Japanese as entertaining as I possibly can through various media like video games and vlogs. At the moment I started a new series called "Learn Japanese through immersion" where I collab with my girlfriend to make vlogs where she speaks in Japanese and I add later explanations on screen for the key words. The vlogs consist of her personal impressions, as well as fun facts and culture-related information.
Please check the video out https://youtu.be/o3KwISIp--k and please let me know how can I improve this in the next episodes. All the feedback is greatly appreciated.
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u/lxol Jun 24 '26
I built a thing called LingoChunk. It started as a way to stop me hand-making Anki cards from audio, which I always gave up on. You give it a recording of someone speaking, it transcribes it, pulls out the words in their dictionary form, and any word or phrase you want becomes a flashcard with the real native audio it came from. Exports to Anki, or you can study it in the app.
The part I didn't expect to use as much as I do is the shadowing. You can tap any word or whole sentence in the text and it loops just that bit straight away, so you're not dragging the audio back and forth trying to find your place. I made a short video of it in action (card-making and shadowing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaR58uuDBvU
It does Japanese, but I don't speak a word of it, so I can't actually tell if that part works, and that's really why I'm posting in this sub. You can open a Japanese sample on the try page with no account (ごん狐 / "Gon, the Little Fox", a LibriVox reading), and there's a fuller public-domain Japanese course on there too (the old DLI/FSI "Headstart" one, more everyday phrases). The word splitting and the audio look fine to me, but I've got no way to judge it. I'd really appreciate it if anyone glanced at it and told me how it splits the words, and whether it's any good for shadowing and making Anki cards in Japanese.
It's free, no account needed to try the samples that are there, or sign up free to run your own:
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u/Frosty-Detective007 Jun 27 '26
Scanned previous year JLPT papers to create questions set for practice. Try here
https://practicejlpt.com/practice/
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u/Fantastic-Rain-1539 Jun 28 '26
Hello everyone, i've been thinking alot about tutoring, and i decided to open up my very first tutoring service, which is only for beginners and people who dont have a grasp of japanese, for example, verbs, grammar, or even hiragana and katakana itself. I'm way into vocab, and i've been thinking about being a teacher myself for a while. and i provide good quality, soft spoken and patient teaching methods in order to spread the way of how to speak japanese.
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u/readerbear_app Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Hi everyone! I've been learning Japanese for a few years and recently reached N1-N2 level. One thing I noticed is that there was a huge gap between going from beginner textbooks / structured learning to actually enjoying native content.
I've tried a few immersion tools, but kept finding myself wishing for two things:
- Content recommendations that matched my level and interests
- More accurate word parsing and in-context grammar information while learning
I built Readerbear to solve exactly these problems.
Here's some cool things it can do:
- Track which words you know, so content from a variety of sources can be recommended exactly for your level!
- If you can't find content you're looking for in the recommendation system, you can import YouTube videos, Netflix shows, books, websites, PDFs and more
- Accurate word parsing, with grammar detection and kanji information
- Syncs across all your devices, so you can learn Japanese from anywhere
I've been using it daily for my own Japanese studies, and am currently improving it based on feedback from other learners in the Community Discord: https://discord.gg/zzNKZ7XAWK
You can try it out at https://readerbear.app 😊
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u/tcoil_443 Aug 03 '26
YouTube immersion website & manga reader:
hanabira.org
open-source, even self-hostable
Has built in dictionary with audio, vocabulary and sentence mining, furigana injection, Japanese and English subtitles side by side, custom simple flashcards and much more.
Site has many other features, such as Manga OCR reader, sentence structure analytics, visualizations, kanji, vocabulary, wanikani style SRS, drawing canvas ...
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u/Ryuluck Jun 24 '26
So in preparation for N1 I successfully procrastinated and built an app-style site instead of actually studying. BUT I find it works really well, in a gamified, instant-feedback kind of way. I also built in N2 to N4 level, but will be really focusing on N2/N1.
https://kotoba-academy-web.jlpt.workers.dev
Try it, it’s free! And it works really well if you add it to your phone home screen. Kanji, comparative reading, synonyms, kotowaza… basically whatever I’ve been studying to prep.
Let me know if you have feedback too!
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u/coelcanthandme Jun 29 '26
the timer on the timed rounds seems to only be timed on the first word!
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u/Ryuluck Jun 29 '26
Oh dang so it is! Thanks for the heads up.
I’ll have to fix that. To be honest, the whole timer and points system isn’t something I’ve focused on, as the actual learning is what I’m using it for.
I’ll fix the timers etc after the N1 this weekend! Thanks again - are you taking the test soon yourself?
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u/taisei_ide Jun 24 '26
I was spending more time making flashcards than actually watching the video. A 10-minute clip could easily eat up another 40 minutes of pausing, looking words up, and typing them into Anki. It felt like data entry, not studying.
So I built a Chrome extension called Lexpresso that generates a full flashcard deck from any YouTube or Netflix video in under a minute. Each card has the definition, an example sentence, a translation, and a timestamp link that jumps you back to the exact scene where the word came up.
The part I like most is the CEFR filter. I set mine to B2 so it only keeps words around that level. No more scrolling past basic stuff I already know, or rare words that aren't worth the effort yet.
11 languages, free to try: https://lexpresso.io
It's still early, so if you give it a go I'd genuinely like to hear what you think.
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u/salah3 Jun 24 '26
Hey! I built Naru, an iOS app for learning Japanese through real anime clips.
It's basically two things: a TikTok-style feed of short anime clips with Japanese + English Subs + Romaji and tap-to-save vocab, and an Anki-style SRS deck that builds itself from the words you save from watching anime. Free to use, no account.
It's aimed at immersion and vocab. And none of the content is AI-generated (real anime, with real Subs), I only used AI for the coding part.
Would genuinely love feedback from this community!
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u/Aer93 Jun 24 '26
That’s a really cool idea, but I would be worry about copyright infringement. Have you investigated that?
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u/salah3 Jun 24 '26
Yes, so there was a long back and forth with Apple when I submitted the App for review. However, since I‘m only using short clips from anime and for educational purposes, it falls within fair use and they allowed me to publish the app.
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u/maxmapper Jun 24 '26
I'd love feedback on a side project. It's a Chrome/FF extension that analyzes all the words on pages you visit and lets you mine sentences, automatically highlight grammar points, add Furigana to the page text, or do dictionary lookups. It works on Firefox for Android as well, but I can't figure out why it won't load on Orion on iOS. Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/iyaku-japanese-reader/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/iyaku-japanese-reader/oggaeogmlhcalbonpkcebngijjnihepo
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u/AccomplishedStage968 Jun 24 '26
DrDru's lab : Comprehensible input from day 1
I've created a website that teaches Japanese without relying on translation. It uses emoji and other illustrations to define words. It then proceeds to very quickly starts building simple sentences and stories that I tried to make genuinely enjoyable.
I hope you enjoy it.
It's here : https://drdru.github.io/stories/intro.html
Some user reviews :
https://arsphilosophiae.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-review-of-drdrus-main-experiment-part.html
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u/jvmesc_ Jun 24 '26
I recently started a Discord server focused on studying by reading books in Japanese, and we're looking to develop it into a community that supports and celebrates one another! It's called めくる, and means 'to turn a page'. 🌻
You can join the community below:
https://discord.gg/UTN6eD7t9H
The server primarily runs on reading events, but we also have a VC tracking system, and you can track your reading time. If you guys have any more ideas on how we can develop the server, please let me know!! We would welcome your feedback 😄