Tools for listening practice and learning from video: lessons, podcasts, dual subtitles and players that let you look up and save words from what you watch.
Free, natural and slow. Use asbplayer when you start watching shows.
YouTube channel with hundreds of free Japanese lessons, best known for a series that walks through every chapter of the Genki textbooks, explaining the grammar and building practice sentences. Relaxed and funny enough to listen to on the go. His website, tokiniandy.com, adds paid companion courses with exercises and tests for Genki and Quartet.
Podcast in natural, slow Japanese, with a beginner series and longer episodes for more advanced listeners.
Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD) from the University of Tokyo: shows the pitch accent of words and how it changes when verbs and adjectives conjugate.
Large library of audio and video Japanese lessons sorted by level, with transcripts, vocabulary lists and an audio dictionary.
Free, open-source browser player and extension for watching Japanese video with subtitles, including on streaming sites, and mining sentences from them into Anki.
Browser extension that shows dual subtitles on Netflix and YouTube, with pop-up translations and tools to save words while you watch.
Paid toolkit that adds lookups and one-click card creation to videos and websites such as YouTube and Netflix, with its own flashcard system.
Japanese pronunciation and pitch accent lessons from the creator Dogen. Some videos are free on YouTube; the full lesson series is on Patreon.
