Show guide
Learn Japanese with Masa sensei! walks absolute beginners through Japanese grammar from scratch — a course you can listen to. Here’s how to study it in Wakatta.
About the show
Masa Sensei teaches Japanese grammar step by step, from the very beginning, so you can start building your own sentences for daily conversation. It’s more structured than a chat show — closer to a spoken beginner course (around N5) — which pairs perfectly with reading along.
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
- Episode 218 - How to use "muke da" (Intended for ~ / Aimed at ~ / Designed for ~ / Suitable for ~) · 2026-07-04
- Episode 217 - How to use "beki dewa nai" (Should not do ~ / Ought not to do ~ / Not supposed to do ~) · 2026-06-20
- Episode 216 - How to use "beki da" (Should do ~ / Ought to do ~ / Supposed to do ~) · 2026-06-06
- Episode 215 - How to use "ni kurabete" (Compared to ~ / In comparison to) · 2026-05-23
- Episode 214 - How to use "koto ni" (To my surprise, joy, regret, etc.)/ It is (adjective) that) · 2026-05-09
- Episode 213 - How to use "ta totan" (The moment ~ / As soon as ~ / Right after ~) · 2026-04-25
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
Is Masa Sensei good for absolute beginners?
Yes — it’s a from-scratch grammar course aimed at complete beginners (around N5). In Wakatta each episode comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can see the grammar as you hear it and tap any word you don’t know.
About the creator
Masa Sensei is a certified Japanese teacher — she completed the 420-hour teaching course and passed Japan's teaching-competency test in 2016 — and a former language-school instructor who now also teaches one-on-one on italki. She runs her from-scratch grammar course across both podcast and YouTube.
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.
