Yuyu No Nihongo Podcast

We're thrilled to bring you this special collaboration between Satori Reader and Yuyu No Nihongo Podcast, a popular YouTube channel known for its fun and engaging monologues on a wide range of topics, from humorous anecdotes, to discussions of cultural differences, to musings about the meaning of life. Listening to Yuyu feels like tuning into your favorite late-night radio host: a friendly and familiar voice that is always warm and genuine.

For this series, we've done minimal editing, which means you'll hear more of the hesitation sounds and mid-sentence (sometimes mid-word!) corrections that people make in real-life, unscripted speech. Our goal is to immerse you in the kind of Japanese you'll encounter as you explore native podcasts on your own. As always, you can count on Satori Reader’s detailed annotations to help guide you through it all, making this series a fantastic way to ease into this kind of content.

The best part is that if you enjoy what you see here, there are literally hundreds more episodes to listen to on Yuyu's various channels (see his bio for more). We sincerely hope you enjoy this series.

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Episode 1

Introduction, Part 1

Yuyu welcomes you to the series and introduces himself.

Notes: This episode contains a note on using とか with the ～たり～たり pattern, one on the expression ということで, and more.

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Episode 2

Introduction, Part 2

Yuyu tells us more about his personal history.

Notes: This episode contains a note on using the word かたち to capture the overall contours of a process or personal history, a pattern for saying you would like things to work out a certain way, and more.

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Episode 3

Introduction, Part 3

Yuyu talks about his interests.

Notes: This episode contains a note on a common pattern to introduce a topic, one on a pattern for saying "without (verbing)," and more.

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Episode 4

Introduction, Part 4

Yuyu goes into more detail about the kinds of anime and games he likes.

Notes: This episode contains a note on why words are sometimes written partially in katakana and partially in hiragana, one on why a phrase sometimes ends with a dangling みたいな…, and more.

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Episode 5

[NEW] Introduction, Part 5

Yuyu introduces the concept of a "life slogan" and tells us what his is.

Notes: This episode contains a note on how to name specific kanji in conversation, one on a secondary use of the familiar suffix ～ながら, and more.

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