Feel free to edit this wiki and add your favorite podcast.
Please keep the list organized by (estimated) level.
Podcasts are available on multiple platforms, but please only link one page to keep things simple.
I’ll change those! I just gave my best guess for most of them.
I suddenly realized I had nothing convenient to link people when they’re searching for podcasts haha, then searched the forums like surely someone’s made a list… but there was no list! Ah well, another excuse to make a spreadsheet
The first Bite size Podcasts are not very good in my opinion - I think she was just getting a feel for what she was doing. In those episodes, she used English a lot and often in places where it was unnecessary- I felt as if she was using it almost as a “wow, I can say this in English so I will”. Personally, I want to listen to Japanese, and so I prefer podcasters to try to first explain difficult terms in simple Japanese rather than immediately resorting to English. Having said that, I love listening to her recent episodes where she speaks almost entirely in Japanese.
To clarify, this is a list just for podcasts targeted toward Japanese learners? I wanted to stop myself before adding random Japanese podcasts if that’s the goal
So I already put 4989 American Life on there which is not targeted towards learners, but everything else is. If you all think it would be helpful to put podcasts for native speakers on here as kind of a catch-all list, then we could do that too. If it gets to be too many we could always separate them into two tables; one for learner podcasts and one for native podcasts.
Ah, yeah, the “everything else is” aspect is what made me hesitate. But then we also don’t have a running master list of non-japanese-learning podcasts so I wasn’t sure what the vibe was. I’ll hang onto the more subject-specific native podcasts for now and just add some that I think might be good for a general learner audience
I think that’s a good idea. I thought about this a bit before, and yeah maybe there should be a separate list somewhere for subject-specific native podcasts. My worry with including a bunch of native level content was that then someone would come along like ‘how about those anime voice actor youtube radio things!’ and then like 50 of those would get added to the list and it would skew really wildly in that one direction.
I just gave my best guess for most of them.
