Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been self studying Japanese for a little over 2 years and this is the kind of resource I’ve been dreaming of. Thank you so much
I was expecting a paid shill but holly molly this app is the language learner's dream. Thank you so much fr sharing and I apologise for my presumption.
@@mamoonaamin498 there's 30 minutes free per month, which is actually really good considering that the ai models they are using in the background (presumably whisper and chatgpt) cost a lot of money to run.
I've been watching リング on this app. I just imported the video, put on ai subs in japanese and started watching the movie while examining the subs. It's THE best app because of its various uses. Plus the ai subs aren't crap, they ACTUALLY WORK and work GOOD! Rn I'm gonna listen to tanaka san's podcast "embarrassing memories" and study the text until I can understand it entirely. That's my goal rn. Then, I'm gonna have motivation to do more (more tanaka podcasts) because they're only 14mins or shorter. Such a great app. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THIS.
Wow those are great uses, I'm glad it fits well into your learning method / style! 🙌 Anytime buddy - your comment encourages me to keep making these videos🌈
This is the reason why I like Migaku and spent some time with it during summer! It was soo convenient and helpful to generate a script of everything said from e.g. an anime episode on Netflix, where I could hover over words to read their meaning (which also paused the episode) and even add them to a list of vocabulary to practice on if needed! Really cool and useful stuff :)) As for actually _learning_ Japanese (grammar points and sentence building etc., I mean), my absolute favorite is the *Bunpo* app! Though I do admit being a tad biased since I actually know the guy who made it, having met him on my travels in Japan and becoming friends ^^ But nevertheless, it's an amazing app for actually getting into the language, even for someone like me who already knew the basics when I started using it! :D
@@japanesegrind7799 I for one wouldn’t have learned much about grammar points and sentence building if I had only kept watching anime and listening to Japanese, without a good understanding of the language! 😋
@@Ayelet.M Good resources tend to cost money 😛 Totally worth it imo! Just like how it was worth buying the Genki 1 textbook and workbook when I first started out ^^
Hi Yuki! Thanks so much for the app recommendation! I'll be checking it out ^^ ✨ By the way, at 6:00 you mentioned difficulty/annoyance with going back a little bit in a TH-cam video to replay a sentence. Just in case you don't know, there's actually MUCH EASIER ways to do this than by messing with the video progress bar: On PC, - Using the J and L keys will move the video backward/forward by 10 seconds; - Using the Left and Right arrow keys will move the video backward/forward by 5 seconds; - (After Pausing) Using the , and . keys will move the video backward/forward by individual frames. (This is helpful if you want to screenshot something that goes by really fast) - Also, holding down SHIFT while pressing , and . (to make < and >) while the video is playing will change video playback speed instantly. On mobile, you can tap the left or right side of the screen to move backward/forward by 10 seconds. I hope this information is helpful to you (or anyone else reading)!! ^^ ✨
Glad you found it helpful🌈Can’t take any credit for the amazing App, I can only thank the tech savvy and language loving people who brought this to life🎉👏
Hey! I'm new to your channel, thanks for letting us know about this app, it seems amazing! Especially the transcription :). one thing - I think there's no need to be afraid whether you understand everything or not. More than that - I think that allowing yourself to consume content subconsciously, without overanalyzing, is actually beneficial. Regards.
That’s a really good point💪I don’t really stress about understanding everything, but it’s just nice to have the option to zoom in on the bits I’m curious about🤓
FYI you only get 30 minutes free and then it is $60 a year. I would love to see an ad supported free version with maybe less features or a daily cap on how many minutes it would transcrbe. With all the free language learning tools out there I have a hard time paying for apps and when I do pay they are never subscriptions. There are a few sentence analyzers out there for Japanese that are completely free and poscasts that publish their transcripts for free. So while it isn't as easy there are ways to get the benifits of this app without the cost. However, I understand paying money to be able to do everything with 1 tool so you can just study rather than hunting down several different tools.
Totally fair point. Being time-poor I'm firmly in the paying a bit for convenience camp, but I understand that the math may work out differently for everyone.
That's really cool. I wish there was something like that for Cantonese... Recently moved to Hong Kong and finding materials and good apps for learning is so difficult.
I'm actually quite keen on doing something about this - people wanting to learn my language and struggling to find a way in? This can't continue! Only if you feel comfortable, and just as part of my little research, I'd love to have a short, casual conversation about your thoughts on learning Cantonese. You can drop me a line at yukichiu.contact@gmail.com so that we can connect🙌
This is my first time encountering your videos. Thank you so much for providing such an amazing resource. I appreciate how concise and elaborate you are in showcasing how this app can help and what features can be used in someone's learning journey.
Thanks Yuki! This is such a great resource. I've also struggled with textbooks. This looks like the right kind of tool to help with that. Are you exploring any reading input methods like Tadoku?
Glad it was helpful! I’m actually not doing anything reading or writing related at the moment and I’m solely focusing on audio input for this next block 🙌 do you recommend this resource you’ve mentioned?
@@YukiChiu852 Tadoku is an approach that focuses on getting huge amounts of written input its written 多読 (tadoku) which basically means much-reading. There are many graded readers which are built up around of this approach. This Miraa method might just be bettter since you get both (natural) audio in addition to the transcript. Thanks again for sharing!
@@DrilasDiary tadoku is website with Japanese books on random content for all levels (beginners to advanced) Some books have audio support as well, you can download and read it for free. Whole purpose of this website is to make learner’s recognise Japanese word as soon as you see.
On android you can double tap the left side of the video to rewind 10 seconds. I guess it's the same on the iphone. If you are on a computer you can rewind 5 seconds on youtube with pressing the left arrow.
Yes that's right but this doesn't work as well if I want to go back to a particular sentence in the middle of the episode, for example. Having a clickable transcript allows me to quickly scan the content and find that sentence again, and simply click to listen to it.
🙌Hope this helps! I do find that having a lot of audio input helps me get used to the flow of the language and know what a natural sentence sounds like.
great video, thanks for sharing! excited to try it! (also just some feedback - the audio in this video was very low, had to turn my volume all the way up to hear)
Thank you Yuki! I tried the app and it’s good but needs more improvement in translating the right kanji. For example the right sentence should be: 父が他界し肉親は兄だけになった。 But it translated to 父が高いし肉親は兄だけになった
It’s certainly not perfect, but it’s useable🤣I find that I pay even more attention when the transcription/ translation is off to try to understand what’s being said
Wow we are on similar journey, I did Pimsleur and have also been searching for my next steps and came across Trenton and other immersion learning channels. I listen to podcasts like Miku real Japanese but there is a lot I don't understand. I am trying the Irodori textbook right now, and since that is free I am trying to find a good audio resource that I am willing to pay for. I will try this out!
I also did Pimsleur first! 🙌 My next step from there was the Genki 1 textbook + workbook, and then I went to a language school in Kyoto for 6 months, where they were using Minna no Nihongo :D Totally recommend the Migaku website to use as a supplement for watching anime and Japanese movies etc. and being able to read transcripts of whatever it is that you're watching, just like shown here in the video! ^^
I’d still start with Pimsleur🙌 Pimsleur is structured and easy to follow (30 minutes per day every day is as simple as a plan can get) and I’ve found it to be a great entry point into the language. Miraa is more a tool to help you ease into consuming content in Japanese, and may be more useful if you have some basic ideas of how the language works. Hope this helps - just try out different things and you’ll quickly get a feel of what works for you🙌🙌
This looks great...if you're already JLPT N3+....I looked at this as someone just starting out and....hell no. Way too much. It's not teaching you words, it's just showing just translations assuming you can fully read Japanese and already essentially know the words.
I'm definitely not at N3+ (and have no plans to take JLPT so far)😂 I still find value in picking up words and expressions here and there in a more natural context, but do what works best for you!
Definitely not the best way of _starting out_ no, but once you're pass N5 and doing N4, then it could really be a valuable tool! Though I think I prefer Migaku or Lingq myself, because then I also get the visual feedback - making it even easier to follow along in the script, since I can understand the context simply by _seeing_ what's happening! :)
I think there's a free trial version for you to test out the App, but you'll need to subscribe if you want to continue using it past the free quota. I never really thought much about my voice, but that's very sweet of you!
@YukiChiu852 you showing the app in the thumbnail is what made me click :) at first when i saw the title i thought it would be an app I've already used since I've been through so many or an advertisement but seeing the app in the thumbnail got me to click, thank you btw gave you a sub
Hope you don't mind that I recycle an earlier reply! These are the ones I'm listening to: 1) YUYUの日本語Podcast @yuyunihongopodcast 2) あかね的日本語教室 @Akane-JapaneseClass 3) The Bite size Japanese Podcast @the_bitesize_japanese_podcast They are all hugely popular and need no introduction! I personally really enjoy the wide variety of topics they cover. They also have very pleasant voices.
Thank your for the video covering this app. I hope you have continued success using it, and I will definitely try it out. I do have a slightly unrelated question. When reading Japanese text, do you ever experience interference from already knowing Chinese? In other words, as I read a Japanese sentence I sometimes need to fight the instinct to read the kanji in Chinese.
Always. In a relaxed state I’d almost certainly read Kanji the Chinese way. It sounds really funny btw mixing hiragana, katakana and Kanji with Chinese pronunciation🤣 I guess it’s a small inconvenience since I also have the privilege of already recognising most kanjis and can write them
Great video! The app could really help making input-heavy learning on content you actually like a lot less daunting. Just personally, I usually caution against completely buying into Input Theory, since it's often misrepresented on Social Media and leans on assumptions that are somewhat controversial in linguistics. That can lead to new learners misunderstanding it and getting demotivated, sadly. Trenton does go into a bit more detail, but I think he still leans a bit too heavily into an idealized version of Krashen's theory. ("Languagejones" has a great video on that topic, which I highly recommend.) Anyway, I think though that the app serves as a great bridge for newer learners. Listening to authentic native language content about something you like while getting a bit of clarification on structure is likely a great benefit. As I said, great video! It's nice that you decide to share tips with fellow language addicts, and I appreciate that you tend to offer concrete steps at the end of your videos. Positive energy all around!
Not sure if TH-cam has the same functionality, but what I find really useful with the Miraa is that I can scroll through the transcript and jump to any part of the audio that I want to listen to again. It can also play sentences on repeat. And the transcript has a sentence by sentence translation - so each sentence is presented with Japanese on top and translation at the bottom - I haven't figured out if that's possible on TH-cam?
@@YukiChiu852 I mean if it's any better in terms of accuracy. Sorry not to be clear. Because it's also based on AI e the one TH-cam uses é pretty good for languages like English or Portuguese but terrible for Japanese or Chinese. Useful still, but also still terrible.
These are the ones I'm listening to: 1) YUYUの日本語Podcast @yuyunihongopodcast 2) あかね的日本語教室 @Akane-JapaneseClass 3) The Bite size Japanese Podcast @the_bitesize_japanese_podcast They are all hugely popular and need no introduction! I personally really enjoy the wide varieties of topics they cover. They also have very pleasant voices.
It doesn’t show pitch accent I’m afraid. And the free version is really just a tester, you do need a subscription to use it regularly. There are a lot of free resources and Apps of course, and some people have commented that you can get similar functionality using or combining some free tools, so do what works for you🙌
Apparently you can select other target languages on the App, which include Chinese, German, French, Italian, Korean and Spanish. I have not tried out other languages though as I’m just learning Japanese at the moment, but if your target language is on the list I think it’s worth a try!
You can set the target language to Korean (and a handful of other languages) on the App! I do not know any Korean so I don't know how well that works, but maybe you can give it a try 🙌
You can turn up the the volume on most devices. On phones there are usually buttons on the left or right side that you can change it, and on computers there are shortcuts for it that depend on your os and there's also usually a volume or media icon in the top or bottom bar that you can click to open volume control.
Hey im currently doing the Pimsleur audios im on Unit 2! Do you recommend going through the whole thing? Do you feel like you actually learned something from doing the whole thing? Currently the lessons have been fun so far
I do recommend following through with it. The entire Japanese course is of very high quality. Above all else I think keeping that 30 minutes per day structure for 5 months gives you a great foundation - Pimsleur helps build confidence engaging in real life conversations like no other App. I might recommend incorporating other resources towards the later units, since you may want to start learning vocabulary on topics other than the ones presented to you on Pimsleur.
Maybe! I checked out LingQ briefly but maybe I was missing something, it did not immediately click how it was supposed to work, so I didn’t end up using it.
I’ve not tried Migaku before! I had a quick look, it seems that Migaku is a Chrome extension, whereas Miraa is an App that works outside of a browser. Migaku seems to focus more on video and text content, whereas Miraa focuses more on podcasts and audio content.
@YukiChiu852 es bueno escuchar eso. Por cierto, disculpa que te escriba en español, pero mi inglés no es muy bueno y además creo que también TH-cam te permite a tí traducir fácilmente lo que estoy escribiendo. Por cierto, me gustó el video de vocabulario cantonés.
No worries at all! Hope you don't mind me replying in English as my Spanish isn't great...Thank you for your support, I may make more videos about Cantonese ^^
@@YukiChiu852 No hay problema, de hecho, es muy fácil traducir lo que escribes porque aquí mismo en TH-cam te permite hacerlo, no sé si también puedes hacer eso en TH-cam, pero si no es así, dime y trataré de usar traductor.
Sadly the transcript function is restricted to 5 min as a free user. I was under the impression i could use it fully for free. Sadly not of much use then without paying
Great tip! As someone at an intermediate level, the subscription seems a bit pricey to listen to all my Japanese content. It could be more worthwhile for more challenging subjects or podcasts, while using a regular podcast app for easier ones. Another tip: if your pronunciation is good enough, try setting Siri to Japanese and asking it what a word means in English.
I have been studying Japanese in a more classical way: Tobira textbook and workbooks, and an Italki Japanese tutor. This app is piquing my interest…. Wonder if it would be a good supplement to what I am doing..???
If you’d like to incorporate natural sounding audio input into your routine I think it’s a great tool! I find that listening to native Japanese speakers speak naturally (as opposed to for teaching) helps me get a good feel for what the language should sound like 🙌might be a good supplement to what you’re doing if you have bandwidth to do more!
No🙌 If one day someone wants to sponsor this tiny TH-camr (which will be a milestone btw), (a) I’ll never recommend anything I don’t love myself, and (b) I’ll always mention if it is sponsored!
I thank you for this, the only "advertisement / video for exposure" I have seen for a language-learning application that is genuinely useful :)
Glad you found it useful🌈🌈this is not sponsored btw, just my personal experience and sharing🙌
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been self studying Japanese for a little over 2 years and this is the kind of resource I’ve been dreaming of. Thank you so much
High five from fellow self learner🙌 I’ve found it so helpful that I must share!
アプリとかあまり必要ないけど、基本的に訳すのはだめ、そんな方法で言語が覚えないよ、日本語を分かりたいなら日本語でいいじゃん
I was expecting a paid shill but holly molly this app is the language learner's dream. Thank you so much fr sharing and I apologise for my presumption.
Ikr it was mind-blowing when I understood what it’s capable of🤯 Happy learning!
Same here... Sorry and thank you! 😂😁
But it is tho it's a paid app and a very expensive one at that atleast in my currency how are you using it for free?
@@mamoonaamin498 there's 30 minutes free per month, which is actually really good considering that the ai models they are using in the background (presumably whisper and chatgpt) cost a lot of money to run.
Omg this is so cool. Thank you for sharing!! I've seen so many language learning vids recently and no one is mentioning this app.
Thank you for your support 🌈 I think this app should be much more popular!
Thank you so much for this video 🙏❤
Thanks for your support🌈🌈
I've been watching リング on this app. I just imported the video, put on ai subs in japanese and started watching the movie while examining the subs.
It's THE best app because of its various uses.
Plus the ai subs aren't crap, they ACTUALLY WORK and work GOOD!
Rn I'm gonna listen to tanaka san's podcast "embarrassing memories" and study the text until I can understand it entirely. That's my goal rn.
Then, I'm gonna have motivation to do more (more tanaka podcasts) because they're only 14mins or shorter.
Such a great app. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THIS.
Wow those are great uses, I'm glad it fits well into your learning method / style! 🙌 Anytime buddy - your comment encourages me to keep making these videos🌈
This is the most overpowered app ever. I wanted to listen to the podcast 犯罪の網 but was unable to till now. Thank you!!!!
I don’t know that podcast, is that a true crime podcast? I’m really glad for you🌈🌈
Wow, Im glad I stumbled on your video. A great app! Ive subscribed to it. Exactly what I was looking for on the iPhone/iPad.
I'm glad you found it 🌈 It's been incredibly useful for me!
This is the reason why I like Migaku and spent some time with it during summer! It was soo convenient and helpful to generate a script of everything said from e.g. an anime episode on Netflix, where I could hover over words to read their meaning (which also paused the episode) and even add them to a list of vocabulary to practice on if needed! Really cool and useful stuff :))
As for actually _learning_ Japanese (grammar points and sentence building etc., I mean), my absolute favorite is the *Bunpo* app! Though I do admit being a tad biased since I actually know the guy who made it, having met him on my travels in Japan and becoming friends ^^ But nevertheless, it's an amazing app for actually getting into the language, even for someone like me who already knew the basics when I started using it! :D
Thanks for recommending the resource🙌Will check it out!
its funny how you say Bunpo is "actually learning" japanese when migaku/immersion is really the way you should learn. skip all these awful apps
Especially Bunpo, it ain’t free 😢
@@japanesegrind7799 I for one wouldn’t have learned much about grammar points and sentence building if I had only kept watching anime and listening to Japanese, without a good understanding of the language! 😋
@@Ayelet.M Good resources tend to cost money 😛 Totally worth it imo! Just like how it was worth buying the Genki 1 textbook and workbook when I first started out ^^
Oh boy. This app is really amazing. Thanks for showing it, never saw it mentioned before.
Glad to be of help🙌🙌
Great content. Hope that you can keep creating helpful stuffs like this. Thank you!
Thank you for the encouragement🙌🙌
what a queen, you just saved my listening improvement!
👸The real kings/queens are the developers and the creators - I’m just the messenger!
This video proves that there is something to be found in informing others about new opportunities. Thank you!
Thank you, hope this will help your language learning journey too!🌈
as an active listening learner this is a dream, thank you!
Happy to hear that! Hope you enjoy using it ^ ^
Thank you for mentioning me.😊😊😊
沒有，謝謝你超讚的分享🥰🥰
Thank you for sharing! This is awesome!
🙌Thanks for your support, hope you find it useful!
Hi Yuki! Thanks so much for the app recommendation! I'll be checking it out ^^ ✨
By the way, at 6:00 you mentioned difficulty/annoyance with going back a little bit in a TH-cam video to replay a sentence. Just in case you don't know, there's actually MUCH EASIER ways to do this than by messing with the video progress bar:
On PC,
- Using the J and L keys will move the video backward/forward by 10 seconds;
- Using the Left and Right arrow keys will move the video backward/forward by 5 seconds;
- (After Pausing) Using the , and . keys will move the video backward/forward by individual frames. (This is helpful if you want to screenshot something that goes by really fast)
- Also, holding down SHIFT while pressing , and . (to make < and >) while the video is playing will change video playback speed instantly.
On mobile, you can tap the left or right side of the screen to move backward/forward by 10 seconds.
I hope this information is helpful to you (or anyone else reading)!! ^^ ✨
Thanks for the really helpful tips🙌 gotta try it out! As you can tell I’m IT-challenged at times…
Very nice work! Here’s a subscription from a fellow Hongkonger.
Thank you for your support 🇭🇰
Thanks a lot for this app. It is great. I have been looking for an app like this for a while.
Glad you found it helpful🌈Can’t take any credit for the amazing App, I can only thank the tech savvy and language loving people who brought this to life🎉👏
This is an amazing app for people that use youtube for language learning.
Yes it is - although I use it more frequently just with podcasts, the youtube function works really well too!
Hey! I'm new to your channel, thanks for letting us know about this app, it seems amazing! Especially the transcription :). one thing - I think there's no need to be afraid whether you understand everything or not. More than that - I think that allowing yourself to consume content subconsciously, without overanalyzing, is actually beneficial.
Regards.
That’s a really good point💪I don’t really stress about understanding everything, but it’s just nice to have the option to zoom in on the bits I’m curious about🤓
@@YukiChiu852 sure! I absolutely agree.
Thank you for this, Yuki. I'd never heard of Miraa before, but I'm going to look into it. Thanks again!
🙌 My pleasure! Thanks for your support!
FYI you only get 30 minutes free and then it is $60 a year. I would love to see an ad supported free version with maybe less features or a daily cap on how many minutes it would transcrbe. With all the free language learning tools out there I have a hard time paying for apps and when I do pay they are never subscriptions.
There are a few sentence analyzers out there for Japanese that are completely free and poscasts that publish their transcripts for free. So while it isn't as easy there are ways to get the benifits of this app without the cost. However, I understand paying money to be able to do everything with 1 tool so you can just study rather than hunting down several different tools.
Totally fair point. Being time-poor I'm firmly in the paying a bit for convenience camp, but I understand that the math may work out differently for everyone.
Sure it's $60 a year but it's also limited to 30h/month which already goes against the 2h/day recommendation.
Can you recommend free sentence anylizer?
I believe that if you pay, you should get it. No subscription.
@@Shalyn-ln9tu That would be nice but if it needs any external resources or servers, it's not sustainable.
Yeah I was running into this problem trying to screenshot TH-cam auto captions and translate them back to English. Thanks
🙌 Hope this will help!!
Thank u so much for this video!! Imma download this app immediately 😁
Thank you for your support, hope you find the app useful too 🙌
On TH-cam you don’t need to scroll the little bar to rewind. You just double table on the left of the video and it rewinds 10 seconds
Yes but 5 or 10 second doesn’t get you to exactly where the sentence/phrase starts 🫣
Nice video! Glad I stumbled on it in 2025
Glad it found its way to you 🌈 Should I sneakily change the title to 2025?
@YukiChiu852 haha I won't blame you if you do hehe
That's really cool. I wish there was something like that for Cantonese... Recently moved to Hong Kong and finding materials and good apps for learning is so difficult.
I'm actually quite keen on doing something about this - people wanting to learn my language and struggling to find a way in? This can't continue! Only if you feel comfortable, and just as part of my little research, I'd love to have a short, casual conversation about your thoughts on learning Cantonese. You can drop me a line at yukichiu.contact@gmail.com so that we can connect🙌
This might be a game-changer, thank you for sharing!
I really think it is🙌 let me know how it goes
Thank you so much. My sincere wish for your channel to grow exponentially ❤❤
Thank you for the kind comment 🙌 That's my dream too💃
Wow thank you!
Thank you🙌🙌
very useful to hear of your experience. thank you
Thanks for your support! It's the best feeling to know that my sharing is helpful 🙌
this is insanely useful. thank you so much.
Glad it was helpful 🙌 All credit goes to the creators and developer.
waaa this is insane!! ty for sharing :) im also a soon to be lawyer (from Canada) who likes learning languages!!
Ikr!! Best of luck with your budding career and with your language learning🌈
Thanks a lot!!! It helped me very much.
Glad it helped 🌈🌈 Thanks for your support!
thank you so much i was crying on duolingo 😭
🙌Glad it was helpful! Don’t cry coz every bit of learning you’ve done counts🌈🌈
This is my first time encountering your videos. Thank you so much for providing such an amazing resource. I appreciate how concise and elaborate you are in showcasing how this app can help and what features can be used in someone's learning journey.
Aww thank you that’s such a thoughtful comment! Thank you for the encouragement🌈🌈
Woah, that's pretty cool! I suck at remembering Kanji, so this might be really helpful.
I know right! I struggle with remembering the Japanese pronunciation of kanji too🙈🙈
This is amazing! Thank you!! 🙏🏽 ❤
Glad you found it helpful!🌈🌈
Really cool, technology is amazing. And only getting better every day! Do you know who developed the app?
I saw on the App store that the developer is named ‘Zhou Kaiwen’, I assume he/she is of Chinese origin. Will do some further digging🙌
Thanks Yuki! This is such a great resource. I've also struggled with textbooks. This looks like the right kind of tool to help with that. Are you exploring any reading input methods like Tadoku?
Glad it was helpful! I’m actually not doing anything reading or writing related at the moment and I’m solely focusing on audio input for this next block 🙌 do you recommend this resource you’ve mentioned?
@@YukiChiu852 Tadoku is an approach that focuses on getting huge amounts of written input its written 多読 (tadoku) which basically means much-reading. There are many graded readers which are built up around of this approach. This Miraa method might just be bettter since you get both (natural) audio in addition to the transcript. Thanks again for sharing!
@@danacooper74 hello may I know what tadoku is? Is it an app? Thank you 😊
@@DrilasDiary tadoku is website with Japanese books on random content for all levels (beginners to advanced)
Some books have audio support as well, you can download and read it for free. Whole purpose of this website is to make learner’s recognise Japanese word as soon as you see.
+1 for tadoku! Having short contextual stories helps a tonne
On android you can double tap the left side of the video to rewind 10 seconds. I guess it's the same on the iphone. If you are on a computer you can rewind 5 seconds on youtube with pressing the left arrow.
Yes that's right but this doesn't work as well if I want to go back to a particular sentence in the middle of the episode, for example. Having a clickable transcript allows me to quickly scan the content and find that sentence again, and simply click to listen to it.
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your support🌈🌈
I will try this app,i was searching for any resource to help me to make long and shot sentences with the correct word order,this must help me.
🙌Hope this helps! I do find that having a lot of audio input helps me get used to the flow of the language and know what a natural sentence sounds like.
Great vid, thanks mate... heading off to play with it now 🙂
Thank you so much 🌈 hope it helps your learning journey as well
great video, thanks for sharing! excited to try it! (also just some feedback - the audio in this video was very low, had to turn my volume all the way up to hear)
Thanks for the support and feedback🙌🙌will try to improve the audio next time
Thank you Yuki! I tried the app and it’s good but needs more improvement in translating the right kanji. For example the right sentence should be:
父が他界し肉親は兄だけになった。
But it translated to
父が高いし肉親は兄だけになった
It’s certainly not perfect, but it’s useable🤣I find that I pay even more attention when the transcription/ translation is off to try to understand what’s being said
Does it have an Anki integration? Miraa looks great but being able to create Anki flashcards with it would definitely be a game changer.
Not that I know of, but I agree it would be amazing if that function is available. Maybe we should add that to the wishlist.
Fantastic app recommendation. Thanks :)
You're very welcome🙌 Hope you'll find it useful too!
Perfect! Thank you so much!! 💖
You're so welcome!🌈🌈Thanks for your support
Wow we are on similar journey, I did Pimsleur and have also been searching for my next steps and came across Trenton and other immersion learning channels. I listen to podcasts like Miku real Japanese but there is a lot I don't understand. I am trying the Irodori textbook right now, and since that is free I am trying to find a good audio resource that I am willing to pay for. I will try this out!
🙌 We may have a similar learning style. Thanks for sharing and do let me know how it goes💪💪
I also did Pimsleur first! 🙌 My next step from there was the Genki 1 textbook + workbook, and then I went to a language school in Kyoto for 6 months, where they were using Minna no Nihongo :D
Totally recommend the Migaku website to use as a supplement for watching anime and Japanese movies etc. and being able to read transcripts of whatever it is that you're watching, just like shown here in the video! ^^
I’m going to use it for learning chinese. I want to start japanese this year! But somehow I find it intimidating 😅
You've got this! How's Chinese going for you?
Was really excited to check your other videos only to find AI thumbnails
What a bummmer
That was back when I thought no one would watch a video with my face as the thumbnail :p glad to be proven wrong!
very usefull, thanks!
🙌thank you for your support!
Hi Yuki, wondering if can start over again, would you suggest go for plimsler or Mirra first? Haven't tried either of it yet. ありがとう
I’d still start with Pimsleur🙌 Pimsleur is structured and easy to follow (30 minutes per day every day is as simple as a plan can get) and I’ve found it to be a great entry point into the language. Miraa is more a tool to help you ease into consuming content in Japanese, and may be more useful if you have some basic ideas of how the language works. Hope this helps - just try out different things and you’ll quickly get a feel of what works for you🙌🙌
@@YukiChiu852 Thanks again 😄
This looks great...if you're already JLPT N3+....I looked at this as someone just starting out and....hell no. Way too much. It's not teaching you words, it's just showing just translations assuming you can fully read Japanese and already essentially know the words.
I'm definitely not at N3+ (and have no plans to take JLPT so far)😂 I still find value in picking up words and expressions here and there in a more natural context, but do what works best for you!
Definitely not the best way of _starting out_ no, but once you're pass N5 and doing N4, then it could really be a valuable tool! Though I think I prefer Migaku or Lingq myself, because then I also get the visual feedback - making it even easier to follow along in the script, since I can understand the context simply by _seeing_ what's happening! :)
Amazing! 🎉thanks for sharing
Thank you for your support🌈🌈
THANK YOU SO MUCH REALLY APPRECIATE IT 🙏❤❤❤
You're very welcome, hope this helps 🙌 🙌
Free? You got to start a ASMR reading series because your voice is so soothing!
I think there's a free trial version for you to test out the App, but you'll need to subscribe if you want to continue using it past the free quota. I never really thought much about my voice, but that's very sweet of you!
I can’t seem to find a complete explanation of the colors used in the sentences.
Anyone has info to share ?
Hey, I couldn’t find it either🤣will email the developer and revert if I get a response!
@@YukiChiu852 at the same time, it is not crucial at all. I disabled eveything and it's kinda better...thanks!
Dang, wish I had this before my trip to Japan next week 😅
But nothing beats being in the country🤩 Have a great trip and seize the opportunity to practise!
Thankyou ❤ its really helpful
My pleasure! Thanks for your support🙌🙌
i almost didn't click this vid, I'm glad i did ありがとう
Thanks for giving this video a chance🌈🌈I’ll learn to make better thumbnails
@YukiChiu852 you showing the app in the thumbnail is what made me click :) at first when i saw the title i thought it would be an app I've already used since I've been through so many or an advertisement but seeing the app in the thumbnail got me to click, thank you btw gave you a sub
どうもありがとう🙌実用的な情報ですね
What podcasts are you listening to? 💖
Hope you don't mind that I recycle an earlier reply!
These are the ones I'm listening to:
1) YUYUの日本語Podcast @yuyunihongopodcast
2) あかね的日本語教室 @Akane-JapaneseClass
3) The Bite size Japanese Podcast @the_bitesize_japanese_podcast
They are all hugely popular and need no introduction! I personally really enjoy the wide variety of topics they cover. They also have very pleasant voices.
omg thank you😭😭😭😭😭😭
You’re so welcome🌈🌈hope this helps
Thank your for the video covering this app. I hope you have continued success using it, and I will definitely try it out. I do have a slightly unrelated question. When reading Japanese text, do you ever experience interference from already knowing Chinese? In other words, as I read a Japanese sentence I sometimes need to fight the instinct to read the kanji in Chinese.
Always. In a relaxed state I’d almost certainly read Kanji the Chinese way. It sounds really funny btw mixing hiragana, katakana and Kanji with Chinese pronunciation🤣 I guess it’s a small inconvenience since I also have the privilege of already recognising most kanjis and can write them
Awesome app
I know right🙌🙌
Nice find!
Yes it was🌈 I was so excited to share it!
Great video! The app could really help making input-heavy learning on content you actually like a lot less daunting.
Just personally, I usually caution against completely buying into Input Theory, since it's often misrepresented on Social Media and leans on assumptions that are somewhat controversial in linguistics. That can lead to new learners misunderstanding it and getting demotivated, sadly. Trenton does go into a bit more detail, but I think he still leans a bit too heavily into an idealized version of Krashen's theory. ("Languagejones" has a great video on that topic, which I highly recommend.)
Anyway, I think though that the app serves as a great bridge for newer learners. Listening to authentic native language content about something you like while getting a bit of clarification on structure is likely a great benefit.
As I said, great video! It's nice that you decide to share tips with fellow language addicts, and I appreciate that you tend to offer concrete steps at the end of your videos. Positive energy all around!
That's a fair word of caution! I'm open to experimenting with the method for a while and see how it might work. Thank you for the kind comment🌈🌈
❤❤❤ Thank you so much.
Thanks for your support🌈🌈
Is this MIRAA thing any better than the automatic transcripts TH-cam itself generates?
Not sure if TH-cam has the same functionality, but what I find really useful with the Miraa is that I can scroll through the transcript and jump to any part of the audio that I want to listen to again. It can also play sentences on repeat. And the transcript has a sentence by sentence translation - so each sentence is presented with Japanese on top and translation at the bottom - I haven't figured out if that's possible on TH-cam?
@@YukiChiu852 I mean if it's any better in terms of accuracy. Sorry not to be clear. Because it's also based on AI e the one TH-cam uses é pretty good for languages like English or Portuguese but terrible for Japanese or Chinese. Useful still, but also still terrible.
Sucks it only takes Apple links...
That's true - are you able to find the podcast you'd like to listen to in the Podcast tab?
What podcasts do you recommend?
These are the ones I'm listening to:
1) YUYUの日本語Podcast @yuyunihongopodcast
2) あかね的日本語教室 @Akane-JapaneseClass
3) The Bite size Japanese Podcast @the_bitesize_japanese_podcast
They are all hugely popular and need no introduction! I personally really enjoy the wide varieties of topics they cover. They also have very pleasant voices.
thanks for this...did you use the Pimsluer Japanese Audio 5 Level (30 lessons in each level) first? Did you do the entire 5x30 lessons?
Yes I completed all 5 levels! Made it part of my morning routine for months🙌
superb!
Thank you! Cheers🌈🌈
Does it have pitch accent and also is it free, or is it one of those apps where they give you crumbs, if you dont pay for full content ?
It doesn’t show pitch accent I’m afraid. And the free version is really just a tester, you do need a subscription to use it regularly. There are a lot of free resources and Apps of course, and some people have commented that you can get similar functionality using or combining some free tools, so do what works for you🙌
Unfortunately this app doesnt work on my phone 😔😔😔
That sucks🥲What’s the issue?
@YukiChiu852 im not sure, when i looked it up on the play store it said "This app won't work on your device"
Hello, is it only for learning Japanese? No other languages? Thank you
Apparently you can select other target languages on the App, which include Chinese, German, French, Italian, Korean and Spanish. I have not tried out other languages though as I’m just learning Japanese at the moment, but if your target language is on the list I think it’s worth a try!
@ oohh okay, thank you!
I need one to learn Korean tho
You can set the target language to Korean (and a handful of other languages) on the App! I do not know any Korean so I don't know how well that works, but maybe you can give it a try 🙌
@@YukiChiu852 thanks a lot for you humber reply!!
I like your microphone
Really!! Someone commented that I look weird holding it haha😂
Looks cool. But I don’t do subscription stuff at all. I’ll pay for a lifetime access, but I will not do subscription.
I understand🙌Many services are now subscription based and it can be kinda annoying
Thanks
Thank you too🙌
Nice
Thank you🌈🌈
Thanks Yuki
Thank you and the developer and the amazing creators that make this possible🙌🙌
I can't hear you
You can turn up the the volume on most devices. On phones there are usually buttons on the left or right side that you can change it, and on computers there are shortcuts for it that depend on your os and there's also usually a volume or media icon in the top or bottom bar that you can click to open volume control.
Might be something with my audio😂 Will try to improve next time. Obviously adjusting the volume on your device will help too!
Hey im currently doing the Pimsleur audios im on Unit 2! Do you recommend going through the whole thing? Do you feel like you actually learned something from doing the whole thing? Currently the lessons have been fun so far
I do recommend following through with it. The entire Japanese course is of very high quality. Above all else I think keeping that 30 minutes per day structure for 5 months gives you a great foundation - Pimsleur helps build confidence engaging in real life conversations like no other App. I might recommend incorporating other resources towards the later units, since you may want to start learning vocabulary on topics other than the ones presented to you on Pimsleur.
Mira is just like LingQ
Maybe! I checked out LingQ briefly but maybe I was missing something, it did not immediately click how it was supposed to work, so I didn’t end up using it.
How does it compare to Migaku?
I’ve not tried Migaku before! I had a quick look, it seems that Migaku is a Chrome extension, whereas Miraa is an App that works outside of a browser. Migaku seems to focus more on video and text content, whereas Miraa focuses more on podcasts and audio content.
Thank you very much:)
Have you used it with TH-cam videos?
Yes, it works amazing too! There’ll be a mini screen at the top playing the TH-cam video while the transcript scrolls at the bottom.
Hola Yuki. Solo vine a saludarte. 😊 ¿Cómo estás? ¿Cómo te va en el trabajo?
I'm doing well thanks! Work has been really busy but I'm trying my best to stay afloat! 🌈🙌
@YukiChiu852 es bueno escuchar eso. Por cierto, disculpa que te escriba en español, pero mi inglés no es muy bueno y además creo que también TH-cam te permite a tí traducir fácilmente lo que estoy escribiendo. Por cierto, me gustó el video de vocabulario cantonés.
No worries at all! Hope you don't mind me replying in English as my Spanish isn't great...Thank you for your support, I may make more videos about Cantonese ^^
@@YukiChiu852 No hay problema, de hecho, es muy fácil traducir lo que escribes porque aquí mismo en TH-cam te permite hacerlo, no sé si también puedes hacer eso en TH-cam, pero si no es así, dime y trataré de usar traductor.
Sadly the transcript function is restricted to 5 min as a free user. I was under the impression i could use it fully for free. Sadly not of much use then without paying
Sorry if I didn’t make it clear🫣if you’re not minded to pay for an App there are still tons of free resources🙌
Is it subscription based or a one time payment?
@MintIceCreamEnjoyer it's a subscription and even then you're restricted to a certain hour/month limit (i think 30h/month)
1 buck a month for 30 min of transcripts without limit as to how many times you use it…
That’s pretty much free.
Great tip! As someone at an intermediate level, the subscription seems a bit pricey to listen to all my Japanese content. It could be more worthwhile for more challenging subjects or podcasts, while using a regular podcast app for easier ones. Another tip: if your pronunciation is good enough, try setting Siri to Japanese and asking it what a word means in English.
Thanks for sharing! I don't really use Siri but that sounds interesting🙌
its like lingq
Is it possible to turn off the romanji
Yes, you can turn it off in the Settings. You can also turn on/off other features (translation, colours, furigana, etc,)
This app stole the voice of yuyu a Japanese podcaster on TH-cam
axtongue on steroids
I’ve not come across Axtongue before, it looks really cool🙌
If it’s so good, why didn’t you explain this in Japanese
Not quite there yet buddy - subscribe so you'd be first to know when I manage that feat!
@@YukiChiu852 obviously it didn’t work. You were just paid to regurgitate advertising scripts
Oh it’s AI. Not interested then
That’s okay, you do you🙌
I have been studying Japanese in a more classical way: Tobira textbook and workbooks, and an Italki Japanese tutor. This app is piquing my interest…. Wonder if it would be a good supplement to what I am doing..???
If you’d like to incorporate natural sounding audio input into your routine I think it’s a great tool! I find that listening to native Japanese speakers speak naturally (as opposed to for teaching) helps me get a good feel for what the language should sound like 🙌might be a good supplement to what you’re doing if you have bandwidth to do more!
Is this video sponsored at all?
No🙌 If one day someone wants to sponsor this tiny TH-camr (which will be a milestone btw), (a) I’ll never recommend anything I don’t love myself, and (b) I’ll always mention if it is sponsored!