I’ve often been told Terrace House is a good show for learning Japanese.
Some dude on YouTube shorts said “Teasing master Takagi San” was a good one
I found the recent Eye Love You fairly good to recognize vocabulary and phrases I’ve been learning, and to follow. Simple enough plot, and because one of the leads is Korean, his level of Japanese is not too complicated.
I’m sure NHK has a bunch of educational kids programming to teach Japanese kids the language.
Some good suggestions here.
I would suggest checking out the side learnnatively.com it lets users add and rate the difficulty of books and shows based loosely on JLPT levels. You can find lots of great stuff there.
That being said I thought Umaru and my love story were great anime for learning.
Theres a show on netflix called はじめてのおつかい its about young japanese kids going on their first errands without their parents, its kinda cute and could be worth a watch
Not sure if it counts as a ‘show’ but I found ‘Erin’s challenge’ very helpful since the entire series was created to help people learn Japanese
If you are into food: 孤独のグルメ
If you are into queer comedy and food: 昨日何食べた？
Are you into super spicy food and what food recommendations in Tokyo: 激辛道
If you are into somewhat edgy but genuinly a romp comedy: 不適切にもほどがある
Slice of life about Geisha: 舞子さん家の賄い
Pro wrestling: 極悪女王
Ninjas with solid directing and camp: 忍びの家
I think 孤独のグルメ is a really easy and chill show to get into. It’s slow paced and pretty monologuey so easy to follow for people studying for the N3 imo.
My personal favorites were 不適切 and 極悪女王. 不適切 humor is genuinely really well done and there are tons of moments that had me laugh hard. Something that is rare for Japanese comedies to pull off. 極悪女王 on the other hand is just extremely solid drama about 女子 pro wrestling during the golden era. Plot meanders a little bit towards the second half, but the character relations, and the wrestling matches are stunning.
I highly recommend both of them, and 極悪女王 easily to friends who don’t know anything about Japan. But be warned, both are pretty high level in the sense that characters speak in very vulgar, rough japanese. If you aren’t used to it, you will get confused. Shout outs to Yakuza games for getting me used to it, however 日本語の森 has recently put out some vulgar japanese lectures and it’s 100% worth a watch. Very easy to understand.
People recommend Terrace House a lot. I personally could never get into it. Always got bored and stopped paying attention, however I get the appeal. It does teach you a lot about…how normal people talk to each other.
Doraemon
Dragon sakura
Watch any anime that is made for kids.”Doraemon,Shin-chan”
Shirokuma Cafe
Midnight diner
peppa pig on youtube, super basic vocab and slowly spoken
Doctor X 🤟🏻
Shin chan
Personally a fan of Tokyo Swindlers on Netflix. Speech can fluctuate between scenes in speed pretty heavily at times but it’s got a pretty wide dynamic of language usage.
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Midnight Diner on Netflix is quite good.
I’ve often been told Terrace House is a good show for learning Japanese.
Some dude on YouTube shorts said “Teasing master Takagi San” was a good one
I found the recent Eye Love You fairly good to recognize vocabulary and phrases I’ve been learning, and to follow. Simple enough plot, and because one of the leads is Korean, his level of Japanese is not too complicated.
I’m sure NHK has a bunch of educational kids programming to teach Japanese kids the language.
Some good suggestions here.
I would suggest checking out the side learnnatively.com it lets users add and rate the difficulty of books and shows based loosely on JLPT levels. You can find lots of great stuff there.
That being said I thought Umaru and my love story were great anime for learning.
Theres a show on netflix called はじめてのおつかい its about young japanese kids going on their first errands without their parents, its kinda cute and could be worth a watch
Not sure if it counts as a ‘show’ but I found ‘Erin’s challenge’ very helpful since the entire series was created to help people learn Japanese
If you are into food: 孤独のグルメ
If you are into queer comedy and food: 昨日何食べた？
Are you into super spicy food and what food recommendations in Tokyo: 激辛道
If you are into somewhat edgy but genuinly a romp comedy: 不適切にもほどがある
Slice of life about Geisha: 舞子さん家の賄い
Pro wrestling: 極悪女王
Ninjas with solid directing and camp: 忍びの家
I think 孤独のグルメ is a really easy and chill show to get into. It’s slow paced and pretty monologuey so easy to follow for people studying for the N3 imo.
My personal favorites were 不適切 and 極悪女王. 不適切 humor is genuinely really well done and there are tons of moments that had me laugh hard. Something that is rare for Japanese comedies to pull off. 極悪女王 on the other hand is just extremely solid drama about 女子 pro wrestling during the golden era. Plot meanders a little bit towards the second half, but the character relations, and the wrestling matches are stunning.
I highly recommend both of them, and 極悪女王 easily to friends who don’t know anything about Japan. But be warned, both are pretty high level in the sense that characters speak in very vulgar, rough japanese. If you aren’t used to it, you will get confused. Shout outs to Yakuza games for getting me used to it, however 日本語の森 has recently put out some vulgar japanese lectures and it’s 100% worth a watch. Very easy to understand.
People recommend Terrace House a lot. I personally could never get into it. Always got bored and stopped paying attention, however I get the appeal. It does teach you a lot about…how normal people talk to each other.
Doraemon
Dragon sakura
Watch any anime that is made for kids.”Doraemon,Shin-chan”
Shirokuma Cafe
Midnight diner
peppa pig on youtube, super basic vocab and slowly spoken
Doctor X 🤟🏻
Shin chan
Personally a fan of Tokyo Swindlers on Netflix. Speech can fluctuate between scenes in speed pretty heavily at times but it’s got a pretty wide dynamic of language usage.
There are several excellent Japanese Dramas for beginners, but some have slower diction and more regular ordinary phrases that you will hear often – workplace or legal dramas like [Haneo & Ishiko](https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81714000), cooking dramas like[La Grande Maison Tokyo](https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81918362), medical dramas like [Black Forceps](https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81779950) and airport dramas like [Good Luck!](https://www.netflix.com/au/title/81922646) If you need more recs, the nice folks in r/jdorama will be more than happy to help!
Teasing Master tagagi-san and doraemon movie on Netflix. That’s real japanese that isnt beginner, but more accessible I find
Oruchuban Ebichu! nah just kidding