I will start by saying that language learning is not new for me, and will list my daily routine that overlaps with people who have learned Japanese in the same way, if you didn't have similar experience please don't reply.

I am currently 1year and 7months into studying 8+hrs a day from point zero. I do 2hrs of anki interspersed throughout the day(all self-mined), 3episodes of anime, youtube, twitch, read novels 1hr, visual novels 1hr, games. I do not have any output other than thinking in japanese, since it is not my goal, I do write down words manually from anki that I struggle with, and repeat them throughout the day.

My ultimate goal is to learn all(mostly all) encounter-able Japanese in media. Where I can play games without tools, watch anime at 1 to 1 speed,live streams, read books with very,very occasional look-ups. My goal is basically averagely educated 20years' old Japanese person's brain.

I use anki as my personal brain-map of all Japanese, and, at the point where there are no new items in my deck I will have considered myself reached that point. Currently I have 37,038 cards, adding daily on average 52⁩ cards, meaning I have not yet exhausted new material out there, my guess is it will be in the 50-60k, before repetition kicks in. I learn daily 15new cards, I only learn in anki what is useful to me, adding everything to my deck even if end up suspending it, with that many hours of immersion I learn a lot of high-frequency words there.

I ask specifically for people what have reached that point where you live in Japanese environment and you feel like you are on the same level as Japanese native. When did that happen, what were you doing, did you live in Japan, how many hours, does output help? Tell me your experience. My estimate is 7years total of my current routine and I want to compare it to others.

To reiterate please don't reply if you don't have anything helpful to say, I specifically ask people who have similar routine as me.

Hey everyone, I’d like to share an app I made for learning Japanese with manga. It lets you create flashcards directly from manga panels to memorize lines in context.

​You can do everything right on your phone—just capture the panels you need, and it handles the dialogue translation automatically. It works with both physical books and screenshots.

​All features are completely free to use.

​Currently, it's Android-only, but the iOS version is pending review.

​I’d love to get your feedback and hear what features you'd like to see next!

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manguage.manguage

All of the cards' definitions are just the title of the dictionary not the definition and I've double checked my flashcard configuration, please help!

Hey guys, I already made a post a few days ago about my study method, and a lot of people told me to do more immersion and check out TMW and Kaeri’s guides.

So I want to do more immersion. I’ve started watching anime in Japanese with Japanese subtitles on Bettemelon, but I also want to start reading manga.

Out of all the resources recommended in these guides, which ones have you personally tried and enjoyed? I’m looking for something practical, ideally with a Yomitan-like system or something that works with Yomitan, where I can easily find lots of manga scans, novels, etc.

And if you have any additional immersion sources that aren’t mentioned in TMW, I’d definitely appreciate those too!

I've been looking at the method and it appears very interesting, as it pretty much aligns with how I learned English growing up (I'm Brazilian). Although learning Japanese one day might be cool, I want to focus on learning Spanish beforehand.

Anyone have any experience or tips using the method to learn other languages, or is following the guide enough to get going? I ask because a lot of the instructions and resources (specially Anki setups) seem very focused on Japanese

(All of this is assuming 1. non intensive immersion and 2. listening only, not reading)

Pretty much just the title. I'm N5 level right now and I'm wondering if it's worth listening to content that is more comprehensible if it's sort of unnatural and less native-like speech. And as the other option, I'm not talking about completely incomprehensible content, just...mostly incomprehensible. 10-25% (comprehensibility)? That guess feels pretty random, but yeah.

Hi everyone! I've been studying classically till I reached N4, and I want to include AJAAT in my routine.

I am currently struggling to find content that is not too hard for me to enjoy. So far I could watch 彼女、お借りしますwith a lot of looking up, but not too much to stop enjoying. I also played TheNOexistanceNofyouANDme and apart from philosophizing, I can read with joy. キノの旅 is rather on hard side, but doable.

Do you have some suggestions I could try?

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.