Podcast
Japanese Shadow Daily
A new Japanese lesson every day for English speakers, made for listening with no screen: graded stories to shadow, grammar taken apart, survival Japanese for the konbini, the train station and the ramen shop, listening quizzes, a café chat between a learner and a native speaker from Tokyo, a weekly audio drama and slow Japanese news. Every episode is graded to a JLPT level (N5 to N1) and leaves you pauses to speak out loud.
Want to see the words as well as hear them? Every kind of lesson here has an illustrated video version on our YouTube channel, with the Japanese (with furigana) and English on screen, for every level from N5 to N1.
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Every day of the week
Sunday
Slow Japanese News
this week's news from Japan in simple Japanese
Monday
Japanese Story Time
a graded Japanese story to listen to and repeat
Tuesday
Japanese Grammar in Focus
one grammar point, taken apart and practised
Wednesday
Survival Japanese
the phrases for one real situation in Japan
Thursday
Japanese Listening Quiz
a listening quiz with spoken choices
Friday
Japanese Café Chat
an English learner and a native Japanese speaker chat about one topic
Saturday
Japanese Audio Drama
a graded Japanese audio serial, a new episode each week
Latest episodes
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