Overview
Podcast in natural, slow Japanese, with a beginner series and longer episodes for more advanced listeners.
Strengths
- Natural speech at a slow pace
- Lots of episodes
Drawbacks
- Audio only
Best for: Listening practice for beginners and up
Podcast in natural, slow Japanese, with a beginner series and longer episodes for more advanced listeners.
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.
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.