Hi everyone! 👋
I’ve very recently launched the beta version of “Japanese Immersion”, an interactive website that allows you to learn Japanese with native materials.
The idea is to create a collection of **fully annotated native materials**, with the goal to make your transition from textbook to “real Japanese” as easy & fun as possible.
Every time you see a word you don’t know, you can simply click on it, and the correct definition according to the current context appears.
You can find the website here:
[https://japanese-immersion.com](https://japanese-immersion.com/)
Right now there are three materials online, more are coming soon.
I invite you to check it out for yourself, and I’d love to hear your honest feedback, if you have any.
Thank you, and have a lot of fun studying!
\- Sebastian
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Full disclosure:
I’m not a native speaker myself, so it’s quite possible that there are some mistakes in the annotations I’ve created.
That said, I plan to hire a native speaker to double check all annotations, and provide native-level commentary on words, grammar, expressions, etc., once the website gains some traction.
Until then, please take everything with a grain of salt! 🙂
2 comments
Love it so far. On android it works great with chrome and firefox however on other browsers (like opera gx, via, hermit) the video would not play when I hit the play button, I had to manually start the video. Also on mobile, i really think you should make the native materials on https://japanese-immersion.com/materials/ scroll vertically because I wasn’t even aware there were three options until I visited the page on a wider screen. Other than that I think you did a great job, price wise it’s a way better option than fluentu and much more intuitive than captionpop.
Hello, I am still a beginner (MNN ch.5) but so far love this idea!! But when I tried it just now on my phone, the first video/text (Easy Japanese) was a bit too fast paced for me in the video. I am wondering if I should come back after I finish the textbook or if there will be some slower/easier content added eventually for people who are still progressing through textbooks as well?
Anyway, when I hit pause I tried to check the words/sentence down in the text area, but as I got further down I had to scroll further down and the video wasn’t on my screen anymore. So I had to keep scrolling up and down between the video and the text and I was left wishing the video would just stay at the top as I followed along with the text part. I know the text and translation is in the video, but I still like being able to click on the words individually so that is why I was scrolling back and forth. I haven’t checked it on my desktop, just an iOS mobile. But it is probably a valuable enough resource to where I would be willing to go through the trouble of opening two windows of the same page on my desktop monitor to watch the video on one browser window and follow the text in another. Just my 2 cents, thank you!