Best resource I’ve found for beginner Japanese listening skills (comprehensible input)

First time posting here, just really wanted to get this guy’s YouTube channel some more attention because it seriously changed the game for me when it came to my listening skills.

I went to Japan about 10 months into learning and could read enough to navigate, but communicating with anyone beyond ordering food was virtually impossible. My listening was awful and I knew I had to improve it. And I know some of you can sit through hours of content you can’t understand until you can finally crack it, but I certainly do not have the patience.

So after searching around on YouTube for a few weeks, I found Nihongo-Learning, and Yuta absolutely kills it when it comes to making beginner comprehensible input. I FINALLY could understand some Japanese. He repeats sentences and uses hand gestures, photos, locations, and props, and all of that ends up making it really natural to understand what he’s saying. After burning through twenty something beginner videos, my listening was noticeably better (and that’s coming from my tutor who can be wonderfully brutally honest).

He hasn’t posted in awhile but I reached out to him the other day to let him know how much his stuff has helped me out and he let me know he’s planning on doing another video soon. Just hoping to get him some more support to show him his work is very much appreciated, and selfishly hoping it gets him to make more videos lol

His beginner videos: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJEjmOZPOfrdO9x49nLYQbbw-yB5PZii](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJEjmOZPOfrdO9x49nLYQbbw-yB5PZii)

If you’re an absolute beginner or if your listening is garbage, I’d start with this one: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmKQ-fjnyQ&list=PLrJEjmOZPOfrdO9x49nLYQbbw-yB5PZii&index=11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmKQ-fjnyQ&list=PLrJEjmOZPOfrdO9x49nLYQbbw-yB5PZii&index=11)