A lot of people recommend getting a lot of input on a language they want to learn. Can anyone send a link to a Japanese youtube channel where they livestream news, a podcast, or anything along those lines? It’ll be really useful and I’m looking forward to listening to them while I do mundane tasks like folding my clothes and such.
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I had this on in the background during most of lockdown. I can’t speak much to the quality of the journalism, but it fits the bill of background input while I did jigsaw puzzles.
https://youtube.com/user/ANNnewsCH
What level are you at? You can listen at any level but I really do dislike the community pushing absolute newbies into immersing before they have the faintest idea about anything to do with the language, as it can be very offputting knowing 0 of what is going on during a whole piece of media.
I imagine news channels will use very formal and quite technical terms. I just listen to youtubers chatting more. If this would be helpful to you, I can list them.
NHK is English, but it has Japanese learner segments and can introduce you to some Japanese content. “How to be likable in a crisis” and “charo” are two gems.
I’m subscribed to [日テレ](https://youtube.com/channel/UCuTAXTexrhetbOe3zgskJBQ). They cover a wide variety of topics, including the juicy ones like crime.
In addition to ANN that was mentioned elsewhere:
[https://www.youtube.com/user/FNNnewsCH](https://www.youtube.com/user/FNNnewsCH)
[https://www.youtube.com/user/tbsnewsi](https://www.youtube.com/user/tbsnewsi)
[https://www.youtube.com/c/tvtokyonews/featured](https://www.youtube.com/c/tvtokyonews/featured)
[https://www.youtube.com/c/MBSnewsCH/featured](https://www.youtube.com/c/MBSnewsCH/featured)
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5a240pQsTVT9CWPnTyIJw/featured](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk5a240pQsTVT9CWPnTyIJw/featured)
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuTAXTexrhetbOe3zgskJBQ/featured](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuTAXTexrhetbOe3zgskJBQ/featured)
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQhaZjODkIjuv38d-i5TVRw/featured](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQhaZjODkIjuv38d-i5TVRw/featured)
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyHdFYJyt4Ihwuscuk5ALJA/featured](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyHdFYJyt4Ihwuscuk5ALJA/featured)
Did you consider searching ニュース on YouTube?
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I’ll be sure to check out all the links and search options you gave out 🙂