Show guide
The Bitesize Japanese Podcast is Layla’s short, focused episodes — natural Japanese in small, digestible doses. Here’s how to turn each one into study in Wakatta.
About the show
Layla, a native speaker, hosts short episodes built around a single topic or idea, spoken in clear, natural Japanese around N3. The bite-size length makes it easy to finish an episode and actually review it, instead of letting a long one wash over you.
How to use it in Wakatta
In Wakatta the show is ready to play, and every episode is a tappable transcript with furigana. Tap any word for its reading and meaning, save the ones worth keeping, and review them later with the exact sentence and audio — so you actually understand what you hear instead of listening past it. (Don’t see a show you love? Search for any podcast in the app.)
What a transcript looks like
今日はお茶を淹れます。
淹れます iremasu · to brew (tea)
Every episode becomes a transcript like this — tap any word for its reading and meaning.
Recent episodes
- 706 日本に住んで初めてわかること · 2026-07-09
- 705 日本のラブホテルとパチンコ文化 · 2026-07-06
- 704 日本の夏の過ごし方 · 2026-07-02
- 703 ずっと悩んでたこと「普通って何？」 · 2026-06-29
- 702 日本に生まれてよかった理由｜社会制度 · 2026-06-25
- 701 日本の仕事文化と考え方 · 2026-06-22
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
What level is the Bitesize Japanese Podcast?
It’s upper-beginner to lower-intermediate — around N3. The episodes are short and focused, which makes them easy to study in full. In Wakatta each one comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can read along and tap anything you miss.
About the creator
Layla is a native Japanese speaker whose Bite size Japanese Podcast gives learners short doses of natural, real-life Japanese, with full transcripts on Patreon.
Read along in Wakatta
Wakatta turns real Japanese podcasts into tappable transcripts — tap any word for its reading and meaning, and review what you save with the original audio.
