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Learn Japanese with YouTube
Wakatta carries over 170 hand-picked Japanese YouTube channels sorted into thirteen genres, each tagged with a JLPT range. Open one and you get the same tools as a podcast: hold a word for its meaning, ask for a sentence to be explained, and mark the moments you did not catch.
Tap a genre — those are the real counts from the catalogue. Follow a channel, and note the JLPT range on each card rather than a single level.
YouTube is the largest supply of natural Japanese on earth and almost none of it was made for learners — which is exactly why it is worth watching, and exactly why it is so easy to bounce off.
What is in there
Over 170 Japanese channels, hand-picked and sorted into thirteen genres — Learners, Talk, Vlog, Food, Gaming, VTuber, Variety, Anime, Beauty, Knowledge, News, Travel and Music. Most of them are not teaching channels. They are what Japanese people watch, which is the point.
Each channel carries a JLPT range rather than a single level, because a channel is not one difficulty — a vlogger's cooking video and their year-in-review are not the same listening task. Search matches romaji too, so typing akane finds あかね.
The same tools as the podcasts
A video opens with its Japanese subtitles beside it and every tool the podcast player has: hold a word for its dictionary card, ask for a sentence to be explained, mark the moment you got lost, save a phrase. Those moments land in the same place as your podcast ones. It is one player wearing a different screen.
Podcast transcripts are a different thing again — those are made by Wakatta and aligned to the audio word by word, so the highlight follows the speaker exactly.
Full guide: the podcast catalogue, by JLPT level
Watch what Japanese people watch
Free to start, no account needed. iOS and Android.
