Show guide
Maiko Sensei's show 『まいにちすこしの日本語を』('a little Japanese every day') is made for parents raising children abroad — but its slow, simple Japanese works as gentle listening for any learner. Here's how to study it in Wakatta.
About the show
Maiko, a former elementary-school teacher, speaks in slow, simple Japanese about raising bilingual kids abroad and keeping up heritage Japanese. It's aimed at parents, but the clear, everyday language makes for comfortable N4 listening for any learner.
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
- #890 「古事記」がおもしろい！ · 2026-07-07
- #889 子どもが自立したあとの「自分の姿」を想像する · 2026-07-06
- #887 みんなのコメントにお返しするよ! · 2026-06-30
- #886 もうすぐ七夕。子どもの願いごとは毎年ちょっとずつ変わっていく · 2026-06-29
- #885 「話せる」と「学べる」は違う · 2026-06-25
- #884 おにぎりはアイデンティティを作る · 2026-06-23
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
Who is Maiko Sensei's podcast for?
It's made for parents raising children abroad in Japanese, but its slow, simple Japanese (around N4) works as gentle listening for any learner. In Wakatta it comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can read along and tap anything you miss.
About the creator
Maiko is a former elementary-school teacher, now based in Germany, who founded the online children’s Japanese classroom nihongo TOIRO in 2020 to help families raising kids abroad keep up their heritage Japanese; she is raising a bilingual child herself.
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.
