Show guide
The Miku Real Japanese Podcast is one of the most-loved intermediate shows — Miku speaks in natural, real-world Japanese and explains the harder words in Japanese. Here’s how to turn it into study in Wakatta.
About the show
Host Miku talks in natural Japanese about language and culture, glossing tricky words in Japanese rather than English — so you train your ear on the real thing. It’s aimed at learners who study hard but still struggle to follow native speech, which makes it a great step into solid intermediate (around N3) listening.
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
- No 222 儚い(Hakanai) Life is so fragile...how do you want to show up in this world? · 2026-07-06
- No 221 We Need More Human Connections 人と人とのつながりって大切だねって話 · 2026-07-03
- No 220 About Givers And Takers... 与える人と奪う人について with Sayuri · 2026-06-15
- No 219 【Announcement】It's Time To LEVEL UP YOUR JAPANESE / About the change I will make on this Podcast · 2026-06-01
- No 218 How to communicate smoothly with あいづち with Japanese people with KIKI · 2026-05-25
- No 217 【Part 2】The importance of SELF-LOVE · 2026-05-18
Tap an episode to open it in Wakatta and read along with the transcript.
Common questions
What level is The Miku Real Japanese Podcast?
It’s aimed at intermediate learners (around N3) — natural-speed Japanese with in-Japanese explanations of the harder words. In Wakatta it comes with a synced transcript and furigana, so you can read along and tap anything you miss.
About the creator
Miku is a native-Japanese teacher who reached fluent English through shadowing (without studying abroad); she runs the 400k+ subscriber "Miku Real Japanese" YouTube channel and has taught since 2017.
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.
