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Let’s Learn Japanese from Small Talk

Summary

Website: Let’s learn Japanese from small talk! Podcast Series - Apple Podcasts
Format/Episode Length: Dialogue / 1 hour
Genre: Daily Life / Japan
Difficulty: Intermediate / Advanced
Transcript availability: Patreon only

Availability

Apple Podcasts

Personal Opinion

This was the first two hosts talking podcast I listened to and I found it pretty enjoyable.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Decent variety of topics
  • Two hosts interacting, more natural conversation.
  • The hosts do give a vocab list at the end of the episode for early episodes.

Cons

  • I think especially as the podcasts went on, the hosts forgot their target was language learners and reverted to more advanced/native speech, so the difficulty goes up over the course of the podcast
  • The hosts do not have a great gasp on which vocab language learners might know or not know. They’ll omit complicated concepts from their vocab list but then include りんご
  • Episodes are long, I suggest splitting them up if it wins
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